I guess in some ways I am glad that apparently taking a baby on an international flight is not as easy as 1 - 2 - 3. Alas, I wish I would have known it was the ordeal it was. We got to the airport almost three hours before our flight was to depart ... so, it's kind of hard to believe we almost missed the flight. Lesson learned, when taking an infant to Mexico and they are riding on your lap on the plane, you must pay taxes for infant to fly into the country.
We weren't aware of this until after waiting 30 minutes to check-in. Once we got to the check-in counter, the not so very polite woman at the check-in counter rudely told us we needed to go to the ticketing counter and buy O a paper ticket. (Did I mention between us, we had two suitcases, two backpacks, a stroller, a convertible carseat and a booster seat?) Fortunately - while the Delta check-in counter woman was as rude as they come - a different airport employee took sympathy on us. When we got to the ticketing counter ... it took the woman forever. I am not sure what took so long, and I don't think she knew what took so long either (she was on the phone and looked just as annoyed as we did.) So, after waiting an hour and $150 later, we finally had a paper ticket. Again, another person took pity on us and got us through security quickly so that we could catch our flight.
It was crazy ... we were bogged down ... it looks so easy to book international flights on Amazing Race. The magic of television is clearly very deceptive. Perhaps to make it more complicated, they should do a season all about trying to travel internationally with an infant. That would definitely be a roadblock that would make some teams melt down!
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