Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!gcd.org!vda-gw!news.moat.net!news.glorb.com!peer1.stngva01.us.to.verio.net!news.verio.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!crtntx1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!border1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.sjc.giganews.com!nntp.calpha.com!news.calpha.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:31:04 -0600 Newsgroups: fj.rec.travel.air,rec.air.travel,rec.travel.air Subject: Re: air transat From: Olivers References: Organization: Oliver Assoc/Kestrel Syndicate Message-ID: User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 09:31:04 -0600 Lines: 34 NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.80.24.27 X-Trace: sv3-VOAAspQxztOI3D3GiLHhyGHx7MC+MfLaj58fLdbqZ54/hoYnnWN6UMld88ufYQljZEmnrV0vUh6mB3b!XRFV/Kexgm22Bvl123uMhp+8CBUyosV6nhVaKKQ+z4wPR1AFdn/11gcZwyDFYqOacNwlMBX1Dg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@calpha.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@calpha.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.rec.travel.air:47 Wilf & Joan muttered.... (snip-ped, terrible tale of woe...) Real sorry, but "First Degree Burn" are by definition the equivalent of sunburn, even with a infant not of substantial concern, responsive to time and drugstore remedies. ....but then, there's the far more serious (and potentially abusive) feat of "elective travel" (in the same category as elective surgery - in a Mexican tropical coastal resort at that) with an infant. Puerta Vallerta is a pretty civilized place these days compared to my first visit in 1957 or so, but the flight from Edmonton is a long haul for an infant who is then being dropped into an environment where a host of new "bugs" to which the little nipper has no inherited or built in immunity sit waiting to attack with the dreaded Montezuma's Revenge or the equally debilitating Aztec Quick Step. A suggestion for "next time" - if your rash and ill-considered judgement has not ruined all the times to come.... Send the young mom & dad to the tropics to revel, booze, slip beneath the sheets and revisit the pre-partum passions, leaving the bambino home with Granny and Gramps to cuddle and coddle. On their return, hand over the liddle monster, and Gran and Gramps board the big silver bird to laze among the rum drinks, recovering from their ordeal. I can vaguely recall that a vacation with my or her parents was the last thing my wife wanted 5 months after the birth of our first in 1967. We drove down to Saltillo to recover in the old Ruiz Gallindo, not Puerta Vallerta or tropical, but cooler with better food and drink. TMO