Getting to Honolulu
MONDAY: We were down in North Carolina visiting my family for Mother’s Day, so on Sunday we had to drive from there back to Richmond to get bigger suitcases and repack everything. Then, we had to drive up to Woodbridge because it was $150 cheaper per ticket to fly out of Dulles than it was to fly out of Richmond.
By the time we left Richmond, it was midnight. Ten minutes outside of Richmond, we hit traffic. Apparently, they decided to close 95 down to one lane for some construction. It took me an hour to go 10 miles. We finally pulled into Woodbridge at 3:00 in the morning, leaving about an hour for sleep before we had to get ready to catch the morning flight out of Dulles.
We flew from Dulles to San Francisco, a 5 1/2 hour flight, and then from San Francisco to Honolulu, a 5 hour flight, struggling the whole time to stay awake so our clocks wouldn’t be too horribly off when we finally arrived.
When we landed at Honolulu, it was 5:00 pm … not late enough to sleep yet. We
checked into the hotel (a little underwhelmed with the small size and rooftop
view of our room) and headed to the outdoor mall next to the hotel to find a
little food. Finally, around 9:00 pm, we returned to the room and allowed
ourselves to pass out. We felt pretty horrible and weren’t sure if we’d be happy
with our hotel in the morning, but we were in Honolulu, so there really wasn’t
much room to complain. And yes, everything looked much better after some sleep.
