Well, the flight was not fantastic but not bad. James and I slept for maybe an hour while the kids took turns dozing off. Ethan had the roughest time of all and just couldn't get comfortable. We flew Austrian Air and some of the flight attendants were very nice and some were just plain annoyed with the kids. That was frustrating. We waited to be the last ones off the plane since we had to undo the carseat etc and she came back to tell us they were waitning on us even though not everyone else was off the plane yet. Lame.
We spent about 5 hours in the Vienna airport. We were flying as a United co-chair so we tried to use the Star Alliance Business class lounge for our long wait. They wouldn't let us in with the kids. As a business person, I would have been relieved... as a mom, I was annoyed. So we walked down to a different lounge and they let us in. The only thing was it was beautifully decorated with these white nylon strings hanging all allong the walls, surrounding the tables... they were everywhere. How do you keep kids out of them? They did pretty well considering their parents were exhausted and they had to keep their voices down. Boy was I relieved to leave Vienna with its snow covered runways and kid unfriendly demeanor.