The Travel to NIH

We didn’t have a great travel experience heading to the NIH. To make a long story short, we were suppose to arrive at the Children’s INN on the NIH campus at 5:00 p.m. however we ended up arriving at 1:00 a.m. We had a canceled flight and snow in Chicago earlier in the day that delayed flights all day.

So when we final arrived at the airport in Washington it was late, they had arranged a taxi driver to pick us up. Before we left they had given me the number so that I could contact him if there were problems. So I contacted him earlier in the day to let him know we weren’t going to be on the same flight. He was waiting for us at the airport and was very nice man. He was great with Lorna and spoke to her at her level. He does his taxi by appointment and picks up often for the NIH. So he was very familiar with the process and shared with us what we needed to do. It was helpful to be aware of needing to stop at the gate and get a security check and NIH badge; he was very detail about the process.

So we arrived at 1:00 am and needed to fill out a quick paper and get a photo taken, our tour of the Inn would have to wait until the next day. So we ended up getting into bed just before 2:00 am and needed to be in admissions between 7:00 and 9:00 am.