On the other side of the world

OK, just Portland. Had quite a bit of time in my hotel room here as I've been working working working.

It is more fun to travel with Bruce and the girls. For airline flights, their legs are shorter and they take up less room in the seat next to you. Also - a well equipped plane is an adventure for them. We flew Virgin America to LA and back for Hawaii. On VA, you can:

1. Watch Hannah Montana (which you aren't allowed to do at home)
2. Text between seats - this is a very exciting option for little girls just learning to read with no regular computer access
3. Order free beverages and buy snacks from your monitor
4. Play mahjong - which I did for an extended period of time and the girls did intermittently
5. Create your own playlist - now I get the IPod thing after creating a great playlist on VA and having to say goodbye to it when we landed.
6. Order any of several dozen movies - we never had time!!!

Contrast that to my flight to Oregon where - YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR WATER!!!!

Enough said.

The girls were champion flyers on the way home. It was a 15 hour day with about twelve of those hours being spent on airplanes. Red eyes aren't so bad for little girls if you can get them to sleep. At one point, Evie was stretched out across my seat and hers with her feet on the man against the window. Oops.

We are glad to be home, but we miss our fun and friends in Hawaii very much.

Next up, school days!

What have we been doing in Hawaii?

We've been going to the beach.

A whole bunch of beaches actually.

Visiting waterfalls.

Playing in the sand.

And playing with friends, of course!

All of which can make a girl tired.

What we did in LA

While we were in LA, we went to Huntington Gardens twice and hit the local Griffith Park pony rides and train.