Hawaiian Adventure - August 25

The trip is done.

We packed up this morning and got on the plane back to Maryland.

To...shorten a long explanation...

• Mom Edna is a Senior Citizen RollerCoaster JUNKIE from the Ozark Hillbillly boonies.
• Every year, Russ and Damian's company rents out our local Six Flags for a company party and Mom Edna wanted to go ride this park's rides.
• Mom Edna wanted to go to this year's Ren. Fest.
• Mom Edna wanted to go see Wicked when it toured through Baltimore this year.

Well...all these things are about 2 weeks apart from each other, so it didn't make a lot of sense to fly her to the hills, then turn around and fly her back here, then back to the hills, then back here...and so on.  So instead, we just decided to keep her until mid-October!

So, we all got on the plane in San Jose and flew to Vegas.  There everyone got off the plane except for Mom Edna.  She flew on to St. Louis.  The rest of us moved to another plane and flew to Baltimore.  Then, Mom Edna arrived in St. Louis, changed planes, and flew to Baltimore!

She was due to arrive 45 minutes after we landed.  But our flight was 30 minutes late taking off...and once we landed spent an extra 20 minutes waiting for an open gate!  As a result, Mom Edna arrived, got her luggage, and was looking for us long before we got off our plane!

But we all reconvened, got on the shuttle to Garry's work, then unloaded.  Garry took his folks home, then came back for The Three of We plus Mom Edna.  We drove home, dropped off the luggage in various rooms, showed Mom Edna her room....and then went to bed.

Tomorrow---though not part of the trip---is still a busy day.

PS:  Oh....did I forget to mention that our plane to Baltimore was filled with several dozen barely pubescent teenage boys who were part of a "supposedly" Baltimore-based "Christian" football team?     ....yeah...it was a relaxing a flight as you're now imagining it to be.