On our last day, the adults decided to look after each others children to allow us to have some time alone.
Miranda and I took Mia, which ended up with Ruthie, Mia and myself spending 3 hours at the Laie beach snorkeling and swimming and goofing off. It was a great time! Mia is a champion snorkeler and swimmer, and Ruthie has a boundless well of fun games to play in the water!
D&J went to Banzai Sushi in Hale’iwa for lunch, which made Miranda and I happy that they liked it so much when the 4 of us went, that they decided to go again. Miranda and I went to Banzai Sushi for dinner as well. 😛
Other than that, this day was just a lot of packing.
The 30th was our travel day home, and this morning it seems like a blur. We had to get to the airport super early to drop Ruthie off for her flight at 11 (ours was at 2). We had hoped to get all our boarding passes and do security together, but our flight desk wasn’t open until 11 so I sat with Ava and our luggage while Miranda and Ruthie did all that.
The Hudsons were on our flight as well, so after we got to the gate and a short wait and cooling down (we walked the entire length of HNL with a lot of stuff) they showed up and we all hung out again.
The flight felt interminable. Ava was pissy because she had to sleep almost right away and didn’t want to and then only slept a half hour. She woke up angry, and only stopped when Miranda pulled out some Easter-themed gel sticky things. Ava and I spent the next 2 hours pulling them off the airplane window, dropping them, and putting them back on, while Miranda dealt with her flight anxiety.
Ava had 2 more in-flight naps of awfulness, and woke angry each time. At the end of the flight, our neighbours said she was a wonderful baby and we sputtered and assumed they were having us on. They were serious.
We got home to a clean house and happy cats, both of which were strange. Apparently our housesitters cleaned a lot before they left, AND gave our cats a lot of love and attention!
This morning it’s just a lot of unpacking and organizing our stuff. I have 2 more posts before I’ll be done writing here for now!