Spring Vaca - Coming home...

We arrived back in Florida around 7am on Sunday 3/28. We had our luggage taken out the night before, so we had very few things left to take down with us while we waited to be called to leave. We went down for breakfast, and Makena was excited to be able to text her friends again! And so begins our journey home...

After arriving at the Ft. Lauderdale airport, we found out that several flights had been delayed or cancelled. If you have not been to this airport before - there are 4 or 5 gates crammed in to one very small area - and now there were about 1000 very unhappy passengers in this area. We waited in line, at the only restaurant, for about 45 minutes before finding a seat just outside of it. We very VERY lucky to get these seat, as they had outlets for our laptops and we could order food and drinks. The few hours delayed seemed to go by quickly while we stayed busy.

We were finally told that our plane had arrived and that our connecting flight would be waiting for us in Houston. Unfortunately, the connecting flight didn't wait, and there were 16 of us stranded at the Houston Airport. This is when we found out that we were going to be arriving home as planned. First, we were diverted to Las Vegas and told that we would be spending the night there. Makena was happy to miss another day of school and get to go to Las Vegas. That is, until we arrived in Vegas and our luggage was no where to be found...

Makena wasn't too impressed with the Vegas airport

Our luggage was finally found and we all just wanted to get to our hotel room! The shuttle service that we were told would be taking us to the hotel actually stopped running an hour before we arrived so a group of us walked out to find a ride. A large, beautiful limo was right at the door and we all jumped in! I don't know they got all ten peoples' luggage in the back, but they did. We arrived at the hotel around 3:30am, all very tired! The airline gave each family a $30 voucher for a room at TravelLodge - not the nicest, but by that time we weren't going anywhere else.

"Good Morning Pook!"

From Las Vegas, we were diverted the Reno Airport. Another plane change, one more flight delay and we were finally on our way to Portland, Oregon! Martine picked us up at the airport and brought us home. I think the only reason why Brandi was happy that we were home was because she was out of food and water! We dropped off our luggage and then left to go pick up Moxie. By the time we got back home, it was around 9:30pm. I think we were all in bed and asleep by 10pm - and slept very well back in our own beds!

We did have a wonderful vacation and will always have some great memories from it! It's always nice to get a break from every-day-life.