This marks the first time I have combined days on my blog and written one entry for 3 days. I decided to do that because the only thing I have to write for those days is waking up insanely early (try around 3:30 for 2 days in a row) to catch one plane after another until we were finally able to make it back home a day later than we left. The 21st started with a 6 am flight from AL to Texas with just enough time to make it to our connecting flight several terminals away from the one we arrived in to catch our flight to Hawaii. We were on planes for approximately 10 hours total, arriving in Honolulu at around 12:30. The boys swan for about an hour in the warm waters of the outdoor hotel pool while I sunbathed in the welcome heat and humidity of the islands, which I had been longing to feel in the tornado laden alternating cold and warm fronts passing through Alabama in the spring for the last 3 weeks. After that, we took showers and walked over to the local "Byron's Drive In," my favorite local 24 hour outdoor "trucker refreshment" stop close to both of the airport hotels we stay in when passing through Hawaii on our way back to the Marshalls. After that, it was nighty night time, both boys and their mom were out in front of the hotel TV before 8 pm (making our day officially 21 hours long with the 5 hour time change from Alabama to Hawaii), which was fine with me because our 3:15 wake up call to start our day on the 22nd was close on the horizon.
Arriving at the airport and heading to our gate by 4:30 am, it was a much smoother trip on the way back than on the way there a few weeks ago, no close calls getting to our flights, no outrageous taxi fees because the airport hotels provide shuttle transportation every half hour round the clock, and despite the fitful night's sleep I had before getting up for good a little after 3 am, I felt wide awake...I was; however, flabbergasted at the $23 breakfast we picked up at Starbucks on our way to the gate, but oh well, it will be the last speciality coffee shop I'll even see for awhile, so I paid it and moved on. It was good to get something in our stomachs before heading into the sky for the last 7 hour leg of our journey to the atoll. We arrived at 10:30 am on Saturday, April 23, losing a day in the air as we crossed the international dateline. So, just like that, three days have passed. I'm now on Roi for the weekend, decompressing before heading back to work on Tuesday morning, enjoying some catch up time with my fiance. It will be an early night for me, but it's so good to be home again!
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