Thursday July 30
We had an 13:45 flight out of Eindhoven to Copenhagen on Transavia. This was
our first time flying on this airline and out of our own airport. We left the
house just after 11 once Brooklyn was
awake and nursed. Fortunately it was just drizzling for the walk over to the bus
station at the PSV stadion. It was another story with a downpour as we rushed
into the airport from the bus stop. We head straight to security since we
weren’t checking either of our 2 carry-ons (a suitcase for Joe and backpack for
Jackie and Brooklyn). We were turned around and told we need to check-in to get
a tag for the stroller we were had Brooklyn in and were planning to gate check.
The 2 Transavia checkin desk lines were 20 people deep. Joe went next door to
an unopened desk with an employee who kindly printed the tags for the stroller.
Here we are required to have toiletry liquids fit inside a ziplock bag that we
remove as well as all ipads and baby food. After we were through security, we
were happy to see a family area among the 6 gates of the Eindhoven Airport.
Most of the play things were for older kids, but it was nice to let her crawl
around on the floor for a bit after giving her a little snack before we boarded
the plane.
In Europe, you use infant seat
belts for those riding in your lap. They clip together around the baby and have
a loop in back that you put through the parent’s seat belt so the two of you
are connected. We weren’t able to get seats together but Joe was only a row
behind Jackie and Brooklyn. Jackie nursed Brooklyn during takeoff and gave her
another food pouch. Brooklyn played on the plane enjoying shaking her puffs in
a cup. She sat on daddy’s lap for a little while before we began our decent
again. We weren’t supposed to land until 15:55 but we were much earlier. Jackie
nursed during landing and she fell asleep in Jackie’s arms. Upon arrival, the
stroller was not something we could pick up again plane side. We had to
retrieve it at baggage claim. So during the long walk from the cheap airline
Transavia’s gate, we had to carry our little girl to baggage claim. The whole
ease of having a stroller for transport in the airport has totally lost its
appeal in Europe. It was okay since she was asleep, but it was a LONG walk with
an 18 pound baby.
We took the metro from the airport
to Christianshavn, a short 10 minute ride. From there we took the 9A
bus towards Holmen/Operaen, an even shorter 5 minute ride to our stop. We
noted that it was one stop after the Netto supermarket. The Airbnb apartment we
rented is in these yellow brick buildings.
The couple and their 2 kids were
going camping on Fyn in Denmark so put their place up to rent while they were
away. The Airbnb apartment was a modern 95m2 with 2 bedrooms,
a big living room, a sunny private terrace and shared lawn. It was a great
option for us with a baby because they had a high chair, lots of toys and a
playground. It was near the Opera House, street food, Christiania, Refshaleøen,
Habour bus and metro.
They were gracious enough to pull a few brochures of things
we might like to go see and do. They also had a great map for us to use and
talked about a few good places Jackie would like to see as an architect and
also good routes to do on their bikes they allowed us to borrow (yay baby bike
seat provided!).
After settling in and letting Brooklyn crawl around checking out all their toys they set out for us, we walked over to Copenhagen Street Food / Papirøen (Paper Island) for dinner.
Brooklyn shaking her cup of puffs while we wait for our street food at Papirøen
We had tacos, double fried in duck fat french fries and a plate of Moroccan with cous cous, cucumber salad and meat kabobs.
A few photos of the view from Papirøen:
Opera House, Papirøen and Experimentarium City
Looking across the shipping canal
at Nyhavn and Skuespilhuset (theater/playhouse)
Looking across the shipping canal
at Skuespilhuset (theater/playhouse) and further up the waterfront
We stopped at the grocery store on
the way home to have a few things for breakfast in the morning.
We put down Brooklyn early after
the short afternoon nap on the plane. She did pretty good adjusting to sleeping
in the pack-n-play in a new environment. We used our chromecast and watched a
little Netflix before we went to bed.
Friday July 31:
Brooklyn had a great night sleep of
over 11 hours. Right away she took to crawling all over the house
Brooklyn liked playing with their
xylophone toy
We had egg breakfast sandwiches and
Brooklyn had some fruit and eggs.
We departed the apartment for a day
of sightseeing
Jackie likes this simple apartment
bay
We walked by Our Savior’s Church
and made plans to climb the tower up the spiral steeple later
Old windows of Our Savior’s Church
Church of Our Saviour spiral spire
Canal in Christianshavn
Crossing the large shipping canal
in Copenhagen
Børsen, a 17th century
building that was a former stock exchange with a cool spire.
Next we walked toward Nyhavn.
Nyhavn is a neighborhood of
recently gentrified sailors’ quarters on a canal with sailboats of all
sizes.
Cool lantern on this boat mast
Joe and Brooklyn walking down
Nyhavn
Hans Christian Andersen lived and
wrote his first stories here in Nyhavn in the red double-gabled building at #20.
Hans Christian Andersons wrote The Ugly Duckling, The Emperor’s New Clothes,
The Princess and the Pea, The Little Mermaid, and The Red Shoes.
Jackie and Brooklyn in Nyhavn
Jackie in Nyhavn
Jackie loves a nice old brick
building with red wooden shutters and look a gable hoist beam like in the
Netherlands
Across the water was Papirøen and Experientarium City where we had street food the night before
Across the water was the Opera
House which was completed in 2005 and cost $400 million!
Skuespilhuset, a waterfront
theater/playhouse
Once they complete this bridge from
Christianshavn to Nyhavn, the apartment we stayed at is going to feel real
connected to the center of Copenhagen
We made our way toward the center
toward places to eat for lunch. We wanted smörgåsbord.
We walked past the Round tower (Rundetarn)
which I’ll talk more about later
For lunch we got a table outside at
Café Halvvejen.
We had smørrebrød where the Danes
eat pickled herring in a form of an open face sandwich on rye bread with hard-boiled
egg, tomato and dill.
We finally tried pickled herring,
Copenhagen style. Jackie actually liked it!
The café happened to be across from
the Copenhagen Great Synagogue and Jewish Community Center. We were wondering
why such a place would have armed guards and a security gate. There was a large
plaque for the February 15, 2015 terrorist attack where Dan Uzan, a Jewish
community member working as a voluntary security guard for a bat mitzvah, died.
Two wounded police officers as well as one other dead victim were involved in the
shooting attacks elsewhere in the city. The 22 year old terrorist was killed by
police following the shootings. He had been released in January after a 2 year
prison sentence. He swore fidelity to an ISIS leader on Facebook prior to the
shooting spree.
Moving on to a more uplifting
subject, back to sightseeing.
Next we walked through Kongens Have
(Rosenborg Castle King’s Garden)
Rosenborg Slot (Rosenborg Castle),
a Renaissance palace holding the crown jewels
Cool interactive temporary
pavilion, called Pavillon MAA in the Rosenborg Castle Gardens
Brooklyn needed a little help going
down for an afternoon nap. Jackie rocked her to sleep in the baby bjorn
carrier.
Frederiks Kirke / Marmorkirken (Marble
Church) has a large dome
Next we walked down Strøget
(pronounced STROY- et), Europe’s first and greatest pedestrian shopping mall
street.
While Brooklyn was still sleeping
we stopped for some cappuccinos at a café so Joe could use the restroom. As
soon as mom slid the chair away from the table, Brooklyn popped up awake. I
guess now is a good time as any to nurse her.
We had to go in the LEGO store.
When in Denmark, right?
Joe and Brooklyn beside the giant
LEGO man on a bike
Jackie in a LEGO lion’s head
Some people take shots at the lion,
we like to take shots of the lion, LEGO style (This is in reference to the
Minnesota dentist & hunter that killed beloved a African lion that had the
internet in an uproar)
Now that’s a giant wall of color
sorted LEGO! I can think of a few kids who would be envious.
Next we visited the Cathedral of
Our Lady which looks pretty ordinary on the outside
But inside the Cathedral of Our
Lady, it was simple very simple but beautiful, elegant and oozes minimal Danish
design even though its Neoclassical architecture.
Radhuspladsen (City Hall Square)
was under construction while we were there with a large part blocked off for a
metro stop.
Radhus (City Hall)
Cool spider clamp curtain wall by
City Hall and Tivoli Gardens
We sat down on a park bench on the
edge of the square for a little momma and baby nursing time.
Also a little daddy and baby girl
kiss time
We discussed whether we should go
to Tivoli Gardens or not. It is one of the oldest amusement parks around since
1843. It cost 95kr (about $14) for each of us to get in plus ride
tickets for a few more bucks. Since we couldn’t really ride much with little
Brooklyn, we decided not to go in.
We saw the statue of Hans Christian
Anderson by the City Hall
Next we walked by the
Christiansborg Castle Palace.
The Royal Library
Tall water sculpture from 1999 by
Mogens Møller in the Royal Library Garden
Entrance to the Danish Jewish
Museum by Daniel Libeskind with very similar design elements to the Jewish
Museum in Berlin
Nice office buildings on the
shipping canal
Lovely façade in Christianshavn
Christiania or Freetown Christiania
(Fristaden Christiania in Danish) is an autonomous self-governed neighborhood
of around 900 members. It basically began as a large hippy commune. Open
cannabis trade or marijuana sale has been tolerated (at least until 2004) and it
is common place to see but the sellers to protect themselves (their identity
mainly) dress in baggy dark clothes and skimasks. Hard drugs and violence are
forbidden in the Christiania laws. The future of Christiania with the Danish
government is in jeopardy. It may not be our type of lifestyle but it is
somewhere that is truly Danish and cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
We stuck to walking on the main drag, Pusher Street. There are clear no photo
signs all over.
Christiania entry gate
On the other side it reads you are
now entering the EU.
Saturday August 1:
We let Brooklyn take her morning
nap at the apartment after breakfast.
Today’s agenda was a sightseeing
bike ride.
Brooklyn is equipped in a pink bike
helmet
Islands Brygge Havnebadet which is
a group of recreational swimming harbor baths along the Copenhagen waterfront.
It was completed in 2003 by JDS Architects and Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). There
are 2 kid swimming pools, 2 lap pools and a diving pool.
Divers at the 5 meter high dive at Islands Brygge
Havnebaget
Kalvebod Bølge (Kalvebod Wave) to the right across the
canal
Kalvebod Bølge (Kalvebod Wave) is by JDS Architects and
KLAR completed in 2008. It is an extension of the waterfront with a promenade of
waving and bending surfaces at different levels.
We rode by Gemini Residence by MVRDV converted two former silos into
apartment buildings. Photos
of that later…
Bryggebroen
bridge connects Islands Brygge to Havneholmen across the harbor. It was
completed in 2006. We biked the new 2014 cycle bridge Cykelslangen (Bike
Snake).
We stopped at H&M by the Fisketorvet shopping centre to
buy some tights to make sure we could keep Brooklyn’s feet warm since she
insists on pulling her socks off. We ate Chinese at the mall before continuing
on our bike ride.
We began biking toward Ørestad (West Amager). There was a
lot of construction going on in this area. You could really tell this was an
up-and-coming neighborhood.
It was a good thing the Bella Sky Hotel by 3XN Architects
from 2011 was tall and iconic because it made it easy on Jackie to navigate
that direction on bike without having to stop and look at her phone GPS.
Professional architect photo of Bella Sky Hotel:
We biked by VM Mountain and Jackie immediately recognized
it. More about it later…
Brooklyn really started to fuss and cry after 20 minutes
of riding. We stopped about a kilometer shy of 8House, the main architectural
destination for Jackie. Joe tried to comfort Brooklyn and rock her to sleep but
no such luck. Time to change plans. We walked toward the crowds of people,
which just happened to be at yet another new mall, Field’s, near the Ørestad
metro stop. Jackie nursed Brooklyn. She was just not up for taking a nap. We decided
to bike home and hope for no more freak outs on the 20 minute ride.
The Danes said she should wear the
bike helmet
Now a few things about the architecture that Jackie didn’t
quite get to explore like she wanted.
VM Houses is by Bjarke Ingels Group
and JDS Architects and was completed in 2005 (first generation before VM
Mountain). The idea here is that people are all different so why are all
apartments alike.
These professional balcony
photograph of VM Houses has become the poster child for individualistic apartment
expression:
VM Mountain (VM Bjerget) was designed by Bjarke Ingels
Group (BIG), JDS Architects and Plot. There are 80 residential units each with
a terrace deck and roof garden with a parking garage beneath. It was completed
in 2008 and shortly after awarded the world’s best residential building at the
World Architecture Fair.
Architect nerd!
Professional photographs of VM Mountain:
8House is the one piece of
architecture just beyond our bike ride that we never got to view. Jackie had
heard Kai-Uwe Bergman in 2013 give a Space.City lecture at the Seattle Library
about his work and partnership with BIG on 8House.
8House (8TALLET) is a mixed use
figure 8 also by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG). It was the third generation project
from 2010 with the same development team as VM Houses and VM Mountain. There
are 2 inner courtyards within the figure 8 shaped building. At the cross are
communal spaces for the residents. There is a path that runs from street level
all the way up to the penthouses so you could literally bike out of your
rooftop apartment when you leave for the day.
Professional photographs of 8House
(8TALLET):
Jackie could have spent all day
biking around this area looking at architectural details, but her baby girl was
not gonna let that happen.
Brooklyn may seem okay right now
but we began our bike ride back to the apartment before another breakdown. Of
course she has pulled her sock off again!
Jackie caught a glimpse from the
bike ride of the Tietgen Students' Residence (Tietgenkollegiet), a dorm completed
in 2006. It’s a circular building with an inner courtyard, creating both a
communal and internal life for its student residents by Lundgaard Tranberg
Architects.
Professional photographs of Tietgen
Students’ Residence:
We missed the ideal turn to get
back onto Christianshavn island so we ended up biking by the southeastern edge
of walled off Christiania which Joe equated to looking like a trailer park.
We came back down Holmen Island
from the north, getting great views of the natural secluded elements of this
area.
We put Brooklyn down for a late afternoon nap in the
pack-n-play back at the apartment.
Full vacation mode with an IPA, sun and our feet up while
Brooklyn naps
Joe and Jackie played a little pepper with the volleyball
in the communal yard. It felt great to be a little active while Brooklyn
rested.
For dinner we biked to a local place, Christianshavns Færgecafé. We had an
outdoor table along the canal.
We started the night off with beers and Joe got a flight
of aperitifs.
Smoked pork appeitizer
Big girl eating her grapes, peas
and puffs from her own plate
Joe got schnitzel so Brooklyn would
have something she could eat.
Jackie got an assortment of
seafood: shrimp, crawfish, and crab
We finished it off with dessert and
cappuccinos. It was definitely our most expensive evening.
Sunday August 2:
We had discussed possibly taking a
daytrip to Kronborg Castle in Helsingør, known from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. We
also entertained the idea of taking a boat out to a Swedish island. With the
way Joe’s foot was feeling we decided to try to make this a more lowkey day
with as minimal walking as possible.
We took the 9A bus from our
apartment in Christianhavn to the train station by Tivoli Gardens. We ate
breakfast at Andersen Bakery. We could go home without eating some danishes! Of
course the American Danish is not what they are called here. Wienerbrød is what
I think it’s called.
We continued north on the bus to Kastellet,
a star shaped 17th century fortress with ramparts and a windmill. We walked
around a little before realizing we didn’t want to walk in too far because with
the moat we only had one good access point to the Little Mermaid Statue and it
was the same way we walked in. The walk did allow an opportunity for Brooklyn to fall asleep in the
stroller.
St Alban’s Church by Kastellet
Gefionspringvandet (Gefion
Fountain)
Little Mermaid Statue (Den Lille
Havfrue) is a bronze statue that was a gift to the city of Copenhagen in 1909
from brewing magnate Carl Jacobsen, inspired by Hans Christian Anderson’s
fairytale.
“I wanna be where the people are
I wanna see, wanna see them dancin’
Walking around on those – what do
you all ‘em?
Up where they walk, up where they
run
Up where they stay all day in the
sun
Wanderin’ free – wish I could be
Too bad my prince Eric’s foot hurt
too much to walk to the statue and our little princess was sound asleep in the
stroller. Jackie had this song stuck in my head for the rest of the day!
I’m glad we didn’t just see it from
a canal boat. She faces inland and I don’t think that is would have made for
very good pictures with all the asian tourists standing behind it onshore.
Next we walked over to the ferry
terminal to take the harbor bus. Since we bought a 24 hour bus pass for the
day, we decided to get to most out of it and take the boat bus to sightsee.
We waited around for awhile while
Brooklyn continued napping in the umbrella stroller.
We had a good view of the Operaen
(Opera House) again
Dragon lamppost
Naval crane
Jackie and Brooklyn waiting on the
Copenhagen harbor ferry boat
Kisses for the fluffy hair girl
Once we boarded, Jackie tried to
nurse Brooklyn while Joe took some photos from the open back of the ferry boat.
Looking back north toward the Little Mermaid statue
Opera House from harbor bus
Skuespilhuset (theater/playhouse)
from harbor bus
Skuespilhuset and Opera House from
harbor bus
Boaters,
kayaker and Papirøen Copenhagen Street Food from harbor bus
Nyhavn
from harbor bus
Interesting
building just north of the Royal Library from the harbor bus
Those nice office buildings on the
shipping canal again
Dome
of Visions, a polycarbonate geodesic greenhouse dome
It
is a temporary space that has lived in a few different locations on the
waterfront since 2013.
The Black Diamond, an extension of the Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek) and the Dome of Visions
Hotel
Copenhagen Living, a canalboat hotel from harbor bus
GoBoat
rental dock from harbor bus
Islands Brygge Havnebadet from
harbor bus
Kalvebod Bølge (Kalvebod Wave) from the harbor bus
We need to get this girl somewhere to have some time to
crawl around
Gemini Residence, converted silos into apartment
buildings from harbor bus
Bryggebroen
bridge from harbor bus
The
ferry harbor bus made one last stop near Sluseholmen before we headed back
north. We both agreed we should get off at Det Kongelige Bibliotek stop and
relax outside for a bit at the geodesic dome, then take the ferry boat back to
the Opera House, a mere few blocks from our apartment.
Dome
of Visions
We
bought 2 beers to drink while Brooklyn had lunch and crawled all over the place
on the waterfront.
Brooklyn outside Dome of Visions
Brooklyn and Jackie at the Dome of
Visions
Tippy-toe time
Cutiepie eating lunch on the
Copenhagen waterfront
Cirkelbroen (Circle Bridge) is a
promenade in Christianshavn that has 5 circular platforms with masts mimicking
the tall ships parked along the shoreline.
Brooklyn is happy to see mommy as
she eats lunch on the Copenhagen waterfront
We waited around for the ferry boat
back up to the Opera House so Joe wouldn’t have to walk much, but as the boat
arrived they said something quick in Danish. Something about 6. Oh yeah, they
only have room for 6 people. Great it’s an hour before the next boat. Jackie
had us walk a few blocks to the bustop to take back to our apartment.
After a nap at the apartment, we
went out for a little longer. We didn’t have enough time to get up to Vesterbro
for beers at Mikkeler and Friends. Jackie directed us to the city center and
the Rundetarn (Round Tower).
We took to bus and transferred to a
line that dropped us close to the Nørreport station. This building made all of
Jackie’s top architecture spots in the city to visit, but from everything she
read about it, there were epic architectural renderings but photographs of the
constructed building didn’t really live up to the hype. It looks pretty
ordinary to me. It was a nice thin concrete roof, but that’s about all that was
noteworthy to this architect.
Jackie climbed the Round tower
(Rundetarn) which has an obsevatory, planetarium, and a spiral ramp instead of
stairs (at least most of the way). It is 137 feet (34.8m) tall and once soared
far above the rest of the rooftops in the city since 1642. It has Europe’s
oldest functioning astronomy observatory.
Climbing the Round Tower
(Rundetarn) spiral ramp
A peek into Trinitatis Kirke, the student
church of the Trinity Complex
The view northeast from the Rundetarn
toward Rosenborg Slot and King’s Garden
The view northeast from the Rundetarn
toward Sweden and the Marble Church dome
The view southeast from the Rundetarn
toward Christianshavn
You can sort of make out the
shoreline of Sweden beyond the windmills.
The view south from the Rundetarn toward
Christiansborg Castle/Palace
The view southwest from the Rundetarn
toward Tivoli Gardens and City Hall
The view southwest from the Rundetarn
toward Tivoli Gardens, the City Hall, and Cathedral of Our Lady
The view west from the Rundetarn toward
many clay tile roofs
Old architectural drawings and
model of the Rundetarn and Trinity Church in the old Bell Loft
The Library Hall was holding an art
exhibit on Danish architecture, just up Jackie’s alley.
Model of the Black Diamond, an
extension of the Royal Library
The weather started to get crappy
so we caught the bus back to the apartment.
We fed Brooklyn some dinner.
Then we gave Brooklyn some time to
play outside on the shared lawn.
Brooklyn climbing on daddy
We had Brooklyn try out their
plastic tricycle
Next we tried having Brooklyn ride a
bigger tricycle
Slobbery Brooklyn climbing on mommy
Must get that flower
Kisses
Baby love
Brooklyn crawling around
Joe blowing Brooklyn’s hair
Brooklyn with a volleyball,
hopefully a sport she loves as much as her mommy
This evening nursing Brooklyn was
really starting to get difficult. She is very difficult to stay focused when
breastfeeding and sometimes Jackie doesn’t care about how comfortable she is
with how she is positioned and just happy she is latched and still drinking.
With Brooklyn’s teeth now far out from her gums, Jackie was in a lot of pain
getting blisters and indentations on her nipple. She was close to reaching her
breaking point with breastfeeding. It was becoming such a struggle to feed
Brooklyn. Something needs to change and soon!
Monday August 3
For breakfast today we biked to the Lagkagehuset bakery near the Christianshavn
metro stop. We enjoyed some cinnamon rolls, croissants and coffee.
While Brooklyn went down for her
nap this morning, Jackie took the bike to Our Savior's Church (Vor Frelsers
Kirche) to climb the spiral steeple for some of the best views in Copenhagen.
Our Savior’s Church tower &
steeple
Mechanism for ringing the church
bells
There was a warning sign that that
bells were ringing…a mere 3 feet beneath a large bell. Thanks, I’m sure if they
were ringing I would have known it long before the warning light turned on.
Window in the Our Savior’s Church
steeple
The entry door to the base of the
spiral steeple
The spiral steeple steps of Our
Savior’s Church
Our Savior’s Church steeple
The view south from Our Savior’s
Church
The view west from Our Savior’s
Church toward Tivoli Gardens
The view northwest from Our Savior’s
Church toward Tivoli Gardens and Christiansborg Palace
The view northwest from Our Savior’s
Church toward City Hall, Christansborg Palace and the canal
The view north from Our Savior’s
Church toward Nyhavn, Marble Church, canals and Opera House
The view northeast from Our Savior’s
Church toward Nyhavn across the canal, Christianshavn, Opera House and our
apartment rental
You can kind of makeout the Sweden
shoreline in the distance beyond the windmills to the east of Our Savior’s
Church
Selfie atop of the Our Savior’s
Church
Heading back down the Our Savior’s
Church spiral steeple steps
Jackie rode around a little more
afterward walking along some of the ramparts before getting back on her bike
because she wanted to make sure not to happen to come upon the outskirts of Christiania
by accident.
Once back by the apartment, Jackie
took a detour to see one last piece of architecture, neighboring apartments
called Torpedohallen (Torpedo Hall).
Torpedohallen, designed by Tegnestuen
Vandkunsten, are 67 loft-style apartments in a 1954 maintenance hall for
torpedo boats. The structural elements of trusses and columns were left
exposed. The old roof was also removed to admit light into the interior street,
where all units can be accessed.
Professional photo of Torpedohallen
from the water or across the shoreline:
Parking occurs behind the sloped steel
panel walls
Footbridges cross the canal street
The former boat basin is an
extension of the inner street and owners can use to dock small boats
Free-standing elevator between
lower and upper floors
The area we stayed had great water
access for kayaks. It would be a dream for us to live somewhere like this again.
We packed up and made our way to
the bus to do one final outing for a souvenir shot glass. We also ended up
having a hot dog. The buns here are basically a loaf of bread with a small hole
punched out of the middle, the perfect size for the hot dog.
We arrived at the airport with
plenty of time. Our transavia flight to Eindhoven wasn’t even on the board yet
about where to check-in. We do not like their policy of needing to check the
stroller in at the airline counter before security in order to get tags for the
stroller to be plane side gate checked. We purposely don’t check bags to skip
this added time (and to avoid the extra fees) and yet we still have to wait in
line to check-in and then wait longer on the other end for the stroller at
baggage claim. While waiting we let her crawl all over the dirty airport floor.
She drank some pouches for lunch. Once we were through security, we head
towards the family area at terminal A since we had some time to kill before we
had a gate for our flight. By the time we walked all the way there, we find out
that there is no elevator to this playground space. We were gonna have to carry
the stroller up the stairs. By this time, Brooklyn was due to nap. Jackie tried
to get Brooklyn to sleep by putting her in the baby bjorn as we walked to
basically the other side of the airport in terminal F. There was just too much
commotion in the airport for her to not be distracted. We again let her crawl
all over the airport floor. Neither of us could get her to sleep. She was growing
more and more overtired by the minute. Jackie was trying to push her nursing a
little later since our flight was at 16:20. She was freaking out on us after we
checked in with our boarding passes and waited to be able to walk out to the
airplane. Jackie tried to calm her down as best as she could to nurse her as
soon as they boarded but still save a little drinking time for takeoff. Dad
rocked her to sleep standing in the back of the plane. He sat down with her
napping on his chest as we approached Eindhoven. The flight attendant required
her to be secured in the infant seat belt and be facing forward for landing. We
literally had to turn around a sleeping cranky baby which obviously woke her
up. No sleeping through the landing this flight. Jackie was back to nursing her
and giving her her sippy cup of water to prevent any ear issues which only seem
to bother her when she is awake.
Nice to be home
We weren’t due to land until 17:45
and pickup times at the dog kennel were only until 6pm. We let Chance spend one
more night with her buddies. It sure was weird feeding Brooklyn dinner and not
having a scavenger underfoot waiting to clean up her food mess.
Happy girl 
Swingin’ 
This girl loves to swing 
