As you can see from the pictures, Lucas is quite an accomplished traveller! We were very lucky indeed to have an entire row to ourselves for the long Taipei-LA leg of the journey, and even with this we only got about 2 hours sleep over the whole journey. This is mainly because Lucas was so excited to be on the plane that he refused to go to sleep. We were wondering what all the other parents fed their babies - they all appeared to sleep through the entire journey! Apart from this, however, it was quite a pleasant journey. I think Lucas is the only person in economy class that was referred to by name by all the stewardesses!
We flew on Malaysian airlines, which has a well-deserved reputation for being baby-friendly (we can certainly confirm this), and also it was the shortest flight duration, with only a one hour stop in Taipei. We made use of this time to give Lucas a bath - he had already managed to use up 4 diapers in the short 4 hour sector to Taipei!
Even though we landed early, we had to wait for 20 minutes to get to the gate. Then there was a long queue at immigration, with several flights arriving at around the same time. The immigration officer was very nice, and also called Lucas by name - he's getting all the VIP treatment!
We finally arrived at the Extended Stay in Arcadia, our "home" for the next 3 days at 4pm local time, almost exactly 24 hours after closing the door of our apartment in KL. We will transfer to our more permanent (well, it's for 3 weeks at the moment) home in Pasadena this Thursday, and we will also be picking up our rental car then.
We were so exhausted from the journey that we all fell asleep at 5pm local time and when we woke up 6 hours later there was no place where we could get food. So we decided to have a 24 hour fast (not Lucas of course) and that was good as we needed to be hungry for the American sized breakfast...more on this in the next post!
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