Here is my final installment of our trip which overall was great. Now the friendliness of LA that I boast about kept on going until the Airport here we met the meanest and rude people you could imagine. Telling us no we can’t check the stroller the whole way to Bangor we have to take it with us to the plane and do it there (this is a lie), Security getting snappy at how we were holding up the line as there was 5 of us 3 of them children we were doing the best we could.
We also had the problem that our seats on the flights were not together at all and at each point we tried to get them changed and told nope you do that at the next point to find out it should have been done by the first person we asked. So finally on the plane the Flight attendant said well it’s too bad you can try and trade with other passengers but she wasn’t getting involved. So the only bad part of LA was trying to leave LA.
Then we met the the guy that would be sitting next to the baby so we asked him nicely if we would switch and he said no i’m not giving up my window seat for a middle seat it’s to long of a flight, at this point we were frustrated and the baby was crying as she wanted a bottle so Amanda put the baby in the seat next to him and said out loud Fine strangers can sit by my kids and deal with them. However our frustrations were completely turned around by a group of 6 20 year old males (dressed kinda punkish) who over heard this and said that’s not right what seats do you have and we quickly traded them all around get got it so we were sitting all in the same row on the plane. These guys were super nice and pointed out that had to be the biggest @$$hole thing they had ever heard. They chatted with us a bit and I discovered they had been traveling for a long time coming from Australia to LA and were now off to Philly their final destination.
In Philadelphia we once again ran into very helpful and polite staff who were very helpful and the people flying to Bangor all volunteered to move around so that 3 different families ours being one would be close to each other. Both flights went very well and I am deeply impressed with all three of my children, none of them put up a fuss, or cried, or even complained, other than for the occasional drink/food item. Which is really good considering it was another 12Â hour day of traveling before getting to Calais and into a bed.