Does your wife work?
No, but she's not a fan of flying long-haul with Rafi or leaving him with my parents.
We've gone on 3 trips now leaving him with my parents and Rafi's not exactly a fan of that
Does your wife enjoy these spontaneous trips ? Or just learned to live with it ?
Mostly learned to live with it.
We've done 3 shotgun trips in the past 5 months (Paris, KC, and BA). She really enjoyed being able to go to KC for shabbos/sheva brochos and boy were the in-laws impressed.