While I was originally a bit sad that we only had a vacation Sunday to Saturday (although there were good reasons), it turned out to be very fortuitous. Tropical Storm Chantal was forecasted to make landfall early in the morning on Sunday.
Isaac and I joined Heather for an early morning walk again. We needed to leave pretty early, but the uber was scheduled to pick us up a bit after 8am.
We left the first of all the families, skipping out on the last clean up (again). (There weren't many exit chores though, so we didn't leave them that much work.) We got to the airport just as it started raining and ...they delayed our flight. Of course...we're traveling with Ben. Luckily we had a long layover, so weren't overly worried. Also, they were doing construction in the airport and so there was only one set of bathrooms in our concourse...I'm pretty sure the line for the women's bathroom extended over 30 people at one point. It was crazy! I walked to the other concourse and found a shorter line.
We did manage to fly out in between rain bands - luckily it let up just long enough for us to get out. While the other families were waiting for their flights they saw a double red flag at the beach - no swimming allowed.
Our flight in Baltimore was also delayed a bit. I was so tired it felt like I was falling asleep on my feet. They finally boarded the flight and I was napping before they shut the doors. I vaguely remember take-off, but only enough to recognize that we were actually leaving. (There have been other vacations where I've fallen asleep only to wake up and still be sitting on the ground.)
In Grand Rapids we stopped at the Lego Store. Joshua was only feeling ok and we had all had a weird eating schedule, so Joshua and I got a smoothie while Ben and Isaac did the pick-a-brick wall. We picked up some food in Holland and finally got home. It was a lovely vacation, but it's always nice to be home too.
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