Day 2 - Travelling through Qatar

Alexander woke up pretty early this morning, so we were up and went down to breakfast nice and early. There were all the usual’s for breakfast, including a chickpea curry which Louis said was unreal with his hash browns. I stuck to the standard yogurt, fruit and eggs. I politely reminded him that whatever went in, had to come out and we have multiple flights ahead. Hope we aren’t sitting near the airplane toilet!

Back in the hotel room, we made sure everything was in the right bags, gave Alexander a quick bath in the sink and prepped bottles/formula. We were ready for our big journey. It would be a long journey down under.

At the terminal we got to go through the family check-in stand, and this made us grateful to be travelling with a non-speaking, non-walking child when looking at all the toddlers running about. At security, Louis took up 4 trays of stuff causing a hold up in his lane and of course, all of Alexander’s baby food had to be tested. The tuppaware of white powder cleared the tests but his Ella’s Kitchen pouch kept setting off the alarm. This meant that Louis had to receive an extra touch up to ensure he didn’t have anything else that could be dangerous. Lucky him. The banana porridge was also sent to the bin!

Before heading to our gate, we did some last minute gift shopping for Aoife and her flatmate and after a nappy change and some food for Alexander, we were all set for our flight from London to Doha.

We were flying British Airways and got seats opposite a wall where you could put a bassinet. Once we boarded, Alexander was an immediate hit with the other passengers and the crew, even a guy in business class that said to bring him up if he gets cranky - if only. I must admit, BA crew were fab and looked after us so well. Alexander spent his flight napping and getting walked around when there wasn’t any turbulence with the flight being relatively stress free and uneventful. The only interesting bit was when Louis spilled water all over him, particularly soaking his ‘bits’.

When we arrived in Doha it was 10pm their time and we headed through the flight connection security. We waited for our bags but nothing was moving and the security man clearly had a big night the night before and kept falling asleep. His colleagues were behind him and nudged him to wake up, he did and fell back asleep even though he had the bags on screen in from of him! Finally they got someone else to tag-team him in and no surprises, Alexander’s food pouches made it through with no problems this time.

Once through, we explored Doha Airport which was unreal, and buzzing like a little city even at 2am. We wandered through the inside garden, I had some noodles and we repeatedly went up and down a travelator, (yano one of the moving paths that make you walk faster in airports) to try and get Alexander to sleep a little. 1000000000x steps later and we got there. Hopefully the next, final flight goes just as well! 🤞🏼