Leaving San Francisco

So Joel and I don't have the best track record when it comes to leaving our vacation destinations. For our honeymoon there was the riot at the airport and we were snuck on the plane and coming back from India our flight was cancelled without our knowledge and we had to navigate our way through the people at Air India. (Not to mention, they never posted our new flight on the billboard so the guards wouldn't let us go check in until 45 minutes before our international flight!) So we were a little nervous what may happen this time around, even more nervous because we have a kid now!

A little background information. To get to the airport for our 11 am flight, we had to take a 30 minute train ride (which left at 9:16 am) and then a tram to get to the domestic terminal. We would be driving from Point Reyes (90 minute drive) back to the city to drop off the car at Enterprise. I know, you may be asking yourself "Why didn't they just drive to the airport?" Well my friends, that is freaking expensive so we thought we'd try and save ourselves the $150. When we were reserving the car, we didn't notice that Enterprise didn't open up until 9 am and that they didn't have a drop off option from our rental location. Joel and I decided that we would still drive in to the city early with the hopes that someone may be at Enterprise early. I think it may be one of the only times in our marriage when Joel was more insistent about being someplace early! So we got there plenty early and waited in the car. Thankfully, someone showed up at 8:50; she was unable to give us a receipt (we didn't care at that point) but she was able to check us in and we were able to get ourselves going! So Eli went in the Ergo, I hoisted on my "mom bag" as Joel calls it, Joel threw on his 50 lb backpack and we started dragging our roller duffel to the train station. Yes, you read that right, dragged. You see, in our haste of getting going we lost a wheel. We couldn't carry the bag by the handle as we'd done before because the handle had ripped off earlier in our trip. I think we must have been quite a sight and quite noisy as we dragged ourselves and our duffel around town! Nonetheless, we made it to the train station with 5 minutes to spare, Eli fell asleep on the train and I got searched at security but we made our flights with an extra seat to boot!

So it wasn't as exciting as our other trips home, but there was this added stress of having a kid to deal with at the same time. Thankfully, our kid is totally awesome and such a trooper. We love him.