Ahh…I knew that this vacation wouldn’t go smoothly…

Well, we arrived at Orlando and went down to get our rental car.  Prior to our reservation for the car, Victoria and I discussed getting a car seat instead of taking our car seat down there.  I voted for taking our car seat and Victoria just wanted to rent one while we were down there.  My reasoning for taking our car seat is that I knew how to install it and is one of the easiest latch systems to install.  Victoria’s reasoning for not taking our car seat is it would lessen the amount of luggage we would have to take.

Well, I gave in and rented a car seat.  Big mistake…

As we approached our car, there was a mother and grandmother loading their car up with luggage.  The mother quickly saw we had an infant and asked if I could help her install her rented car seated.  I said sure.  Her child was a bit older than Connor, so I hooked that car seat up as “forward facing”.  I quickly had her on her way and she was very appreciable.

I then started to install the 1st of 4 car seats for us.  After about 10 minutes of trying to install this first car seat in a “rear facing” position, I realized one of the straps was broken.  I turned this one in to the counter so they could take it out of the rental pile.  I started to install car seat #2.  Before I even got started, I realized it did not have any of the “latch system belts”, so that one we back to the car seat rental pile.  #3 was an infant car seat/carry.  This was similar looking to the one we still use for Connor because he still fits in it and is less than 25 pounds.  Well, I couldn’t figure out how to get this one in either.  So, finally I inspected and installed seat #4 and we were finally on our way.  After I finally got it installed, I turned around to Victoria and Connor.  Victoria was trying to hold back the tears because she was laughing so hard.  Needless to say I was not too happy, but I took a deep breath and started to laugh at myself.  Next time, we take our own car seat.  😉

If anyone needs a car seat installed from Alamo rental car, call me — I have done 5 car seat installations and know all of the tricks of the trade.