The Portugal Saga, Part 1: Getting There

[teendoc]

Originally published at Welcome To The Dollhouse. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[wedreamofbaby]

I have a theory about men and "listening": keywords. Men only hear keywords! AH heard you talking about looking for food then going to the lounge like this: blah blah blah FOOD blah blah LOUNGE. Which, of course, meant we're going to the lounge for food in man language.

Murphy does this all. the. time. Makes me absolutely INSANE! Next time he does this, and he will as he can't escape being a man, see if he only heard keywords. It may just break the Mars/Venus language barrier! ;o)

Sorry you had such a rough go of the travel! Toddlers can wear you out on a good day, but travel just seems to wind them up. Can't wait to hear part 2!

[teendoc]

I told AH what you wrote above and he definitely agreed. The problem is that if I broke the message down more simply, I would end up having to answer a barrage of questions:

Me: Let's go find food.
Him: Why can't we go to the club?
Me: There are only snacks in the club. We need to find real food.
Him: Then we'll go to the club to eat?
Me: No, we can't eat outside food in the club?
Him: Why not?
Me: Do I look like a US Air rep?
Him: Do you?

[grassyslough]

Whew! That's definitely a saga, although like most of your travel tales, it becomes quite entertaining by the time you've returned and write it all out.

[teendoc]

Takes me a while to regroup enough to do so!

[tarheel_born]

Six suitcases? Seriously?

I'm sorry to hear about the rough go but glad you made it there and back safe.

[teendoc]

Yeah seriously. Between preparing for both cooler and warmer weather, taking her beach tent, AH's CPAP, too many diapers (regular and swim...see packing note above) while keeping the weight down and the use of suitcases as carry ons with juice, goldfish, animals, DVDs, clothes, etc, it did add up.

We will get better at this...