Phil’s Graduation Trip, Day 6…

We’re home. I cannot believe I woke up, this morning, in Nampa, ID, and now I am sitting here typing in my house (specifically, I am in the closet in the Master Bedroom… long story)…

I could bore you with flight stories that aren’t that spectacular… airport pizza that is bigger than your head… planes that are so full you actually consider taking a voucher and waiting three more hours… babies that squirm all flight long and fall asleep right before touch down… security measures that “test” the juice in your sippy cups… TSA employees that go through your bags and break mirrors… and gigantic bottles of purple Gatorade… but I won’t. Let’s re-cap, instead…

God is a God of redemption…

“Home” might find you in a Freudian slip at “FBI Fridays”, if you’re not careful…

When you’re seven, you can experience the “best day of your life” on consecutive days, over and over again…

When you’re 31, you can, too…

We had hoped…

Jesus is hope…

Leaving Nampa was harder than I ever dreamed it would be…

I loved this trip…

Lisa

We're Home!

Oh... how I missed my boys!

We had a good flight back, and it was wonderful to see our van pull up and Phil hop out to relieve me of the six bags I was carrying!

Caleb got so excited that he unbuckled his seat belt and jumped right out to greet me... in the airport passenger pick up lane! Seth followed suit with the belt, though he just peeked his head out of the van. And Ian sat there clapping and shouting, "Mommy... Mommy... Mommy..." over and over again! Ian also later informed me that he saw the plane and I was on it! Of course, they really didn't see our plane come in, but Ian thought I was on all of them!

I am tired now! As of this post I have been awake for over 20 hours. Back to life as we know it... and life is good...

Lisa

We're Here...

... OK, I am so completely wiped, but we've arrived in Orlando!

This is going to be a quick one...

I liked flying, today, probably more than I ever have. It just felt like a good flight, even when my left ear felt like it was going to explode! I have never landed at night, and that was just awesome, especially paired with the lightning show!

Grace loved her first flight. I cannot get the video to load, and if I stay up much later trying to make it work, I am going to have a miserable day tomorrow. There are a couple pics. The flight, itself, was second only to the moving sidewalks!

Waiting for a hotel shuttle for 30 minutes after running past right around 50 shuttle lines in the 90 degree humid heat at 10:30 at night was probably not a real highlight. A driver from a different hotel's shuttle took pity on us and was going to give us a lift, but then our shuttle arrived, so he gave us our bags back! :)

Doing 6 flights of stairs carrying all of our luggage except for my laptop (which Grace so graciously carried for me) was also probably not among the best moments. Gosh, I am covered in sweat, and I stink!

Not even sure what we're doin' tomorrow, but it's sure to be fun! There may not be an update until Thursday, though, due to lack of wireless Internet connections... unless I find a Panera Bread...

I'm out...

Lisa