Having decided a few months ago that Chattanooga was not going to be our permanent hometown, Kirk and I have been researching and talking about potential places to move in Fall 2009 when my clerkship in Chattanooga ends. Because I enjoy clerking so much, I decided to selectively apply for another clerkship in a different location. I applied to judges in New England and a few mountain towns out West. On Monday September __th, I got a phone call from a judge in Portland, Maine inviting me to come up there for an interview on Thursday. Kirk and I debated about whether I should go and I was on the fence. Portland was definitely towards the top of our list of places to move but I couldn't bear the thought of leaving Sam so soon. After much debate and discussion, we decided to make a family vacation out of it!
We booked last-minute tickets to Portland on miles and flew out Wednesday night. We dropped Rosco off with my sister (thanks Christy!) and headed to the airport. Travelling with a baby means you have to bring so much more stuff! We were only going for 3 days but we each had a suitcase to check and each had 2 carry-ons. Luckily we were able to get a direct flight from Atlanta to Portland; the flight was just over 2 hours long. We definitely got some funny looks from people before we boarded the flight and a few people even made semi-nasty comments about taking such a young baby on the plane. We were laughing as people at the boarding area looked at us - you could see it in their mind that they were hoping not to be sat by us. I can't blame them as I used to do the exact same thing when I saw people bringing a baby on the plane! But we were super lucky as Sam was wonderful on the plane - just a few little peeps when she got uncomfortable but she slept 99% of the time.
We booked last-minute tickets to Portland on miles and flew out Wednesday night. We dropped Rosco off with my sister (thanks Christy!) and headed to the airport. Travelling with a baby means you have to bring so much more stuff! We were only going for 3 days but we each had a suitcase to check and each had 2 carry-ons. Luckily we were able to get a direct flight from Atlanta to Portland; the flight was just over 2 hours long. We definitely got some funny looks from people before we boarded the flight and a few people even made semi-nasty comments about taking such a young baby on the plane. We were laughing as people at the boarding area looked at us - you could see it in their mind that they were hoping not to be sat by us. I can't blame them as I used to do the exact same thing when I saw people bringing a baby on the plane! But we were super lucky as Sam was wonderful on the plane - just a few little peeps when she got uncomfortable but she slept 99% of the time.
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