Hello dear readers! For the 2 of you (my sister and my mom) who still check this site for any new post, I apologize for the delinquencies. The wedding season is upon us which has made me MIA on this blog while we shoot, post process and take care of our wedding clients.
Anyhoo, we are currently on vacation in London, England and I hope to blog as often as I can during this trip. Let me start off with our flight from Vancouver to London…
Mikka has only been on the plane once before this trip. Technically, it was 4 takeoffs and 4 landings when we flew to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic to shoot a wedding in 2009. My biggest concern then was whether Mikka can manage the change in ear pressure especially during landing. At the time, I gave her a lollipop to encourage her to swallow constantly during landing. It turned out OK that time as she handled equalizing the ear pressure really well.
This time around, lift off from YVR went well. However, Mikka started screaming in pain as soon as we started dropping altitude to descend on to London. We tried to ease her pain as much as we can as we gave her chips to chew and breath mints to lick like a lollipop but to no avail. Thank goodness, I had EarPlanes with me and even though it was a bit too late to put it on her ears, we still decided to give it a try. No sooner than we plugged her ears did she start calming down and was back to her cheery self in no time. We have a few more flights to take in the next three weeks and I’ll certainly use them again on her and hope they work as well. Click here to find out where get them locally for your next trip with your little ones! Please note that you can only use each pair for 2 takeoffs and 2 landings as the quality of the ceramic foam that controls the air pressure on the air deteriorates after 4 uses so it can get quite costly. However, I think it’s worth it compared to the 30 minutes screaming in pain and the potential ear damage.
Mikka wearing Children's EarPlanes
For Mikka’s outfit on our flight, she would’ve preferred to wear a dress, as in most cases. However, I thought it more practical to convince her to wear a pair of pants for a) keeping her warm and b) managing potty time in a cramped and sometimes yucky lavatory on the plane. So, the outfit of choice is the Sonia Rykiel pour H&M girls sweater plus a 2-year-old H&M khaki/gray pants (my girl is small!) and topped with khaki Zara girls ankle-wrap flats.
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