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Seeing the World Through A Child's Eyes

It had been a long flight to Dubai, the first leg of our journey to Thailand. Only 6 hours into our 15 hour flight, my 3 year old Charlotte was jolted out of her sleep during a stretch of heavy turbulence and began vomiting... all over herself, all over me, and all over the seats surrounding us. As I consoled and cleaned up a very upset little girl in the tiny airplane bathroom, I prayed that this was not a stomach virus that would spread to myself or my other traveling companions - my mother and one year old daughter. Fortunately, our flight crew was prompt in sanitizing our seats, and I had come prepared with clean changes of clothes for both of us. The sickness continued for a while, but we were pleased to realize it was directly related to the air turbulence, and the rest of us continued to feel well (despite getting zero sleep on the entire flight!) Needless to say, by the time we arrived at our Middle East destination, we were exhausted and ready to go straight to our hot