Well, today is the Day !!! Merry Christmas to all. We will have 2 Christmas days this year... Neat !!!
Well, we met up with Hope (the college student) this morning and gave her all of our clothes and stuff that we weren't bringing back to the states. She was very happy. At about 11 the shuttle bus picked us up to take us to the airport. Our bags were packed to the max. We tried to meet the 50 pounds for the checked bags, but knew very well we were already over that amount. We packed a bunch in our carry on too. HA ....Guess what.... we get to the airport and try to check in..., Turned out we could ONLY have 7 kilograms for our carryon luggage... both of ours was about 15 kg...we had to step over to the side and take everything out of our carryon and put it in our checked luggage... which was ALREADY over the limit.... We thought for sure we would get charged the over limit fee... Thank the lord they allowed our baggage to go through without additional fees.... It was crazy... Then we had to get through the security line.. no problem there... Auckland to Los Angeles was about 11 hours flight time... Since it was overnight and the flight was not full we were able to lay down and try to get some sleep. Once we got to LAX we had to collect our luggage, go through customs, immigration and recheck back in. Well, wasn't a problem with the luggage, but sure was a problem with our tickets... we had to walk over to a different terminal, try to get checked in ... the crowds were freaking amazing... Where in the world were all these people traveling on christmas day ??? We finally got our boarding passes to get us from LAX to Chicago and got in line for security. Well it was 8:00 am and our flight was 9:30am... well guess how long it took us to get through security??? Almost an hour and a half... as soon as we got through we were boarding our plane... ridiculous....Chicago wasn't bad. Our biggest fear was ice and snow. It wa 32 degrees and raining, storm was coming in fast. We finally boarded there at 6:00 pm for our 6:30 pm departure.. Ice was forming on the ground and they ended up De-Icing our plane right before we took off. Yeahhh... made it out before the big storm hit. Finally got to Tampa at 10:30 pm, got our bags, Peggy's friend picked us up and we grabbed a quick bite at Denny's, into bed at her house at about 1:00 am..... What a trip !!!! Amazing, tiring, interesting, cultural, and so happy we did it. We met so many great people, visited some old friends, saw wildlife we will probably never see again..... Can't wait to go back again.....
Merry Christmas again... Thanks for reading my blogs and all your great comments. Until the next trip !!!
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