It was a long, long day traveling back home.
We woke up to our last morning in Hawaii.
Sad to be leaving the sun,
but ready to get home with our family for Christmas,
our "normal" life and especially our own beds! :-)
Our plane wasn't leaving until 1:50pm, so we were able to longe around alittle. But really we just got to finishing our packing and cleaning up the rental. We were ready early, so we waved "aloha" to our house and went to breakfast. Then we did a little last minute trinket shopping until it was time to head to the airport.
Getting through the airport was a nightmare!
We didn't check-in online because we didn't have a printer, so we had to use their computers. It seems that they don't have people checking you in anymore and then I, of course, got a computer that was broken. Then they didn't even take your suitcases at that time. Before we checked-in they went through screening, then after check-in they had to be dragged over to TSA (with kids in-tow) and gave to them. Then we had to get in the security line. Elissa's medicine had to be checked and finally we were through, but oh not yet. Then we had to get in another line for an agricultural check before we got to our gate. It sounds easy typing it all out, but keeping 3 adults and 2 children all in the right place with our stuff was "challenging" to say the least.
Time to board the plane!
It was fitting that it was raining as we left. :-)
We are excited to be on our way!
Zach was out soon after taking off. He slept for half the flight next to Darin. Elissa watched a movie, wrote in her journal and colored......and climbed back and forth from me to Nana.
We got into San Francisco 20 minutes early, 8:40pm. We got a little dinner and waited to get on our next plane. This flight I had Zach and, of course, he was up the entire flight because he has slept on the last flight. Elissa was out before take-off and her and Darin had a nice little snooze. I kept Zach busy trying to watch a movie, but really I just had to answer his questions for 2 hours. :-}
We landed around 1:30am.
We got our luggage and there was a taxi driver right there that was ready to take us, but he only had a town car. I asked if it had enough seatbelts and he said yes. He got all our luggage in and then - Nope! - not enough seatbelts. He wanted just to ride anyways. I don't think so!
We unloaded and found a van taxi. The guy was a CR-AAA-ZY driver. I was scared for our lives. And, oh yeah, my seatblet clip was completely mangled but I somehow got it clipped.
BUT we came home to a wonderful pine smell and this beautiful tree!
That can change anyone's mood!
Thank you so much Grandma and Papa for getting and decorating us a wonderful Christmas tree!
The kids were SO excited when they came in. Zach was for sure that it was Christmas right then. He wouldn't go to bed because he wanted to look at all the ornaments and find his.
We finally went to bed at 2:30am with sugar plums dancing in our heads.
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