The Strader European Family Vacation-Part One

We are a traveling family! Lots of our friends haven't taken their kids on an airplane, a road trip or even a camping trip...come on people what are you afraid of? Read on....you may be VERY afraid and let it be known...you have been WARNED!

It all started innocent enough...Ben had to teach some raceheads who all speak a bunch of different languages. I figured I could keep the girls busy and then we would start a little family vacation afterwards. I had the trip planned down to all the last details. That was exactly where I went wrong. When traveling with children keep no mind to details...they will waste you money!

Our flight...we have flown overseas a handful of times. Each time has been a piece of cake - I am serious. Natalie is a great sleeper and often times will sleep the WHOLE 10 hours...I should have known we were in for it when I realized I had NEVER booked our flight a mere 4 days before we were to leave. So thanks to my mom we salvaged, 4 tickets last minute on expedia.

We made it on the plane and had just gotten the girls down to sleep when we realize there was a drunk women swaggering down the aisle, drinking the bottle of hand soap from the airplane restroom...that's odd! Then she was taken to the rear of the plane (just the row behind us...she is searched (found to have Ambien and seems she has taken 8 of them, among other prescriptions) She is speaking to people who aren't there and tried to crawl away while barking and biting the flight attendtant's ankles. Quite entertaining really, not with 6 hours left in our flight. So she ends up getting handcuffed to the seats in the row behind Ally and I and her medical volunteers (who happened to be as lucky as we were) kept a comical eye on her antics. We had to make a u-turn, to the USA. Bangor, Maine to be exact. Here the police came on board to arrest her - she had a big surprise when she came to and wasn't in London. We should have known we were in for an adventure with a start such as this...