We think the reason we stopped is because it was becoming cumbersome and time consuming to carry our laptop around, transfer digital photos from our camera to the laptop, and type out our words for the blog each night.
But that was 10 years ago. Since then, the app has gotten a little better for the blog, our cell phone cameras have gotten far better producing high quality photos, and just talking to her phone has made things easier eliminating the need to type stuff out.
So we decided we would try it out again. We don't even know if anybody's even following this anymore. I guess we will find out!
Obviously in our last 10 years our travel patterns have changed a little bit. While we still travel quite a bit, we now have a small travel partner and the types of places we go to have changed somewhat.
For our latest trip, we took advantage of Sofia's spring break in March to take a trip to Hawaii. We knew that if we didn't want to pull her out of school we would have a relatively short amount of time for the trip. We ended up pulling her out of school for just one day but between the many snow days we had this year and the days lost due to Helene, they ended up making one of her prior scheduled vacation days a school day in order to make up time. Because of this we had to pull her out of school for 2 days.
We also decided to focus our entire trip on only the Big Island of Hawaii. We did this because with only about 8 days we did not want to spend partial days at the airport transferring to the next island. That would have to be another trip.
We started our trip in Charlotte rather than Asheville for two reasons. First, starting in Asheville would require two changes of planes, plus flying out of Charlotte is typically a lot cheaper. Charlotte airport is under 2 hours from our house so we thought this was worth it. Our flight out of Charlotte was delayed and we landed in Los Angeles about an hour later than we were supposed to. Of course, our flight out of Los Angeles was delayed as well. Our 2-hour layover over turned into a 3-hour layover. By the time we got to the Kona airport in Hawaii, we had been traveling over 15 hours.
Despite being long, the trip wasn't all that bad. While we were waiting in Charlotte, a flight attendant stopped to give Sofia some wings. We thought that was pretty cool and it allowed her to add to her collection!
We also brought some gifts for the crew on the plane as we typically do. This time it paid off in terms of free cheese plate on the plane and letting Sofia sit in the cockpit.
When we arrived in Hawaii we were treated to a lunar eclipse as we got off the plane.
We had also pre-arranged for a lei greeting for the family. Sofia was really surprised by this and surprisingly that we are the only ones it seemed in the whole airport who had signed up for this.
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