Coming Home

Our trip home to Okinawa was a bit of an adventure...Space-A always is I guess. We flew from D.C. to Sacramento and then took a shuttle to Travis AFB.

Paige ate a package of cookies on the plane.

We ended up there for two nights before getting a flight to Hawaii.

Paige FINALLY took a nap on the loud plane. The worst part of this flight was taping ear plugs into her ears :(

This is what the plane looked like...not exactly commercial, but WAY more leg-room!

We got to Hawaii and were stuck. The fight supposed to leave that day to Okinawa was postponed (and had been for 2 days already). So we were saved by the USO which had a place for us to stay because I had a baby with me.

Many people didn't feel sorry for me being stuck in Hawaii, but they might have if they knew that this was our only view!

After more than 24 hours in the terminal I decided that I needed to see more of the island than the airport and I rented a car. I hit the exchange first for some much needed diapers, but then we went exploring. It rained the whole time, but was still beautiful! I can't wait to go back someday with Mike under better circumstances! The ocean...so beautiful after staring at an airport for days!

We drove out to Diamond Head, but were too late for tours.

Beautiful views from my drive.

It was fun to get out and about. The next day there were no flights either, so we went for a long walk on base and saw some airplanes...

played in the grass...

and found some flowers.

We got on a flight after three days in Hawaii. We were so, so glad to be on our way home!

Paige could stretch out and get comfy! My friend Alli came and picked us up because Mike couldn't get out of work. It was so nice to be home and know that we didn't have to get on a plane again for a while!