Augustine Has Had Enough, And We’re Only On Day Two…

I’m live-blogging my SAS EuroBonus SkyTeam Milion Mile challenge this week. Click here for background and route information.

Oh goodness, I hope this is just a result of two redeyes and not a harbinger of what is to come…Augustine and I have had our first major “squabble” and the trip has only just begun.

I really debated whether or not to bring Augustine along on this trip. It wasn’t so much about the extra $3,500 for a million SAS EuroBonus miles (I still maintain that is a great value), but whether it was wise to take an 8-year-old on a week-long journey of 21 flights with very limited rest in between.

I guess we’ll know more later in the week, but August had a little meltdown when I told him we needed to board our SAS flight to Copenhagen. He said he was exhausted and just wanted to sleep. I told him he could sleep on the plane, but he did not want to move…and parked himself in a chair in the Singapore SkilverKris Lounge (a lounge I had just stopped at to take a few post-refurbishment photos).

Ugh…

I finally got him up and he started to cry.

“I’m tired! I’m tired! I don’t want to go!”

I’m not writing this to embarrass him now or if he reads this years down the line, but merely as a reflection that he is still only eight years old and maybe I am asking too much of him. I somewhat expected this, but I did not expect it on the second day of the trip, especially as he slept fairly well on both the JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic flights.

It’s daunting, though, because we now have three flights ahead of us today…to Copenhagen and then Malaga on SAS followed by a flight to Madrid on Air Europa.

At least we will be in a hotel tonight…I’m thankful for the chance to rest and a late start tomorrow.

But first we have to get through this day…