February 13, 2011- Travel Day

     It was not a 36 hour day this time, but it was a long day of nothing but airplanes and sitting in cramped spaces for hours at a time.  It was travel day.  We had a last, light breakfast at the hotel, said our goodbyes to the breakfast host who had been so fantastic to us all week, and headed to the airport around 8 am riding on the Canada line, which is the “subway” system for Vancouver.  A short 25 minute ride later, we were there, although we were very sad to be ending our trip. The people of Vancouver were all so wonderful to us from the receptionists at the hotel who loved to chat with us about the games we attended, the host at the hockey game who brought us mugs, stickers, and so forth just because we were fans who had traveled from abroad to see the Canucks, to the awesome service we had at restaurants, and the passerbyers on the street who helped us with directions, etc...What a great city! I can’t wait to take my boys there some day to share it with them.  But, it’s time to get back, so we hopped our first plane to Los Angeles at 10:30 am, then had a couple of hours to get a bite to eat and stretch our legs before the final flight leaving at 4:30 pm to Honolulu, Hawaii for the night.  When we finally arrived in Hawaii at 8 pm, we were hungry again, so we had our final bite around 10 pm, showers, and bed at the airport hotel around 11 pm.  Unfortunately, it would be a short night. We have to get up at 3 am to catch our next island hopper flight boarding around 5 am.  Yikes! I guess 4 hours sleep is better than nothing.