Pictures from the trip home
13th January 2009
We are home and settling in – I am already busy with a number of work projects – the kids are already busy playing with as many different toys that they can find – I’ve resized and edited a number of pictures from our trip home and posted them in a gallery below with captions. Later today or tomorrow, I will make one last picture post with some of the best pictures from our trip that I somehow missed in earlier posts!
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- The smoking crater of Vulcan Masaya
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- The airport doubles as a military base with lots of miltary aircraft parked in the fields nearby.
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- The San Cristobal volcanic complex with Vulcan Telica highlighted – this is the volcano that we climbed to reach the village of El Ojochal.
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- Vulcan Momotombo dominates the skyline of western Nicaragua since it is somewhat isolated from the other volcanoes that make up the ring of fire.
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- The smoking crater of Vulcan San Cristobal – the highest volcano in Nicaragua
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- Part of the volcanic “ring of fire” is visible here
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- Our seating arrangement for the flight to Miami
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- Analise and Josiah were both awake and happy for this flight
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- As we flew out of Managua, the division between the dry western side and the tropical mountains and eastern side was clearly marked by the clouds!
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- We drove through the town of Tipitapa visible here near the beginning of our trip
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- Just outside of Tipitapa as our plane was still gaining altitude you could see a very large herd of cattle had blocked the road and you could see cars veering off the road to bypass them. Unfortunately, this was the best picture I got and a small porition of the cattle and a car are visible in the extreme righthand side of the picture
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- The pilot said we would fly over Grand Cayman island. This was the only island I saw before we made it to Cuba so maybe it was Grand Cayman?
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- We flew over the western edge of Cuba in route to approaching Miami from the west
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- Baseball is the national sport of both Cuba and Nicaragua
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- A large cruise ship between Cuba and Miami
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- The Florida keys
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- The everglades of southwest Florida
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- Miami and Miami beach – we flew in from the west and then flew out over Miami beach and then a little ways into the Atlantic before making a 180 degree turn to land at the airport from the east. This was great for taking pictures of Miami!
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- Miami Beach, Florida
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- We had a scheduled six hour layover in Miami that turned into nearly 7 hours with our last plane delayed by 45 minute
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- To put our layover in perspective, we landed before lunch and then I took this picture of the moon nearly an hour before we left for Atlanta
January 14th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I was so blessed by all the posts and pictures from your trip. What a blessing that you were able to share this experience with your children!! Question – did you take a car seat for Josiah on the plane? Claire is flying (for the first time in her own seat) next month and I’m not sure what to do… 🙂
January 14th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Hey Lyndsey – the car seat situation is a funny side story. We took two booster seats and then were forbidden from taking them on the plane because they weren’t the right model authorized by the FAA. The check-in lady then proceeded to show us on the side of the seat that it said something about not being authorized. I think most car seats are probably authorized, but maybe most booster seats are not??? You may want to look at the label on the side to see if it says anything about the FAA. We had to gate check the booster seats on each leg of our flight. It wasn’t a complete loss though because we are able to use them in cars and taxis (at least the ones that had functional seatbelts) in Nicaragua. Even if you don’t take a car seat, it was handy to be able to hold Josiah during take-off and landing so that he could look out the window. Analise happily stayed buckled into her seat using the airline seatbelt for almost all of the flights.