We arrived home safely

Yesterday was a "chill day" in our timeshare.  We swam in the pool and water park. and barbecued for dinner.  We had an unsatisfactory shopping expedition to the Character Warehouse (now off my list of things to do).  I did stop by one of those "Florida Souvenir" stores on Rte 192 and found some kitschy mementos that I distributed to all at dinner. Sadly, I took Laurids to the airport with Rachel.  It was fun having him along this trip.

Today, we left at 5:30 in the morning to get to our 8am flight.  Considering, we were all in pretty good spirits.  The plane ride on Continental was actually fun because the seats were comfortable and we all got to watch movies on individual screens.  I watched "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" which kept me entertained. As we were approaching Newark, Rachel and I discussed the idea of her going to visit her friends since she had a suitcase filled with clean clothes (i.e. we did laundry in our condo last night). She called her friends when we landed and spontaneously left us for a NY visit. I think this will be fun for her.

Colin, Jessica, Yael and I waited for our connecting flight to Hartford.  It was much smaller but we arrived in less than an hour.  It took no time to get our baggage, take the bus to retrieve our car in Long Term Parking Lot 1 and be on our way home.

We stopped off at Cracker Barrel in Holyoke for some breakfast (1:15pm) and we were home by 3.

Jessica and Colin left to go to Burlington to close out their apartment; leaving Yael and me for some quiet time.

Well, dear readers, that's it for this trip.  It was wonderful!!!!!!!!!!