After months of planning, the day finally arrived. We had dinner at the airport with Ross, Jarrod and Isaac and my dad., and then said our goodbyes. Ross is usually randomly chosen to be “bomb checked” whenever we travel by air, but today it was Belle’s turn! She was horrifed.

Our flight to Hawaii left on time at 9.40pm and was happily uneventful. Both Abi and Belle had trouble sleeping though, while I think I managed five hours on and off. After going through customs, the departure board told us we would be travelling to New York from a gate in the A terminal, so we headed there to change into summer clothes, freshen up and wait for the next flight. There was not a lot choice for lunch, so we chose a chicken ceasar salad in a self-serve little supermarket to share. As Abi went to refill our water bottles, she noticed the departure board said we were departing from terminal C!! No announcement had been made so we were very thankful she noticed the change, as that terminal was a good 10+ minute fast walk to find.

Belle found Hawaii to be very welcoming and photo-worthy, as her pic out the plane window shows. She is looking forward to returning. Sleep was even more difficult to achieve on the second nine-hour flight, so we decided to just accept it and reduce our expectations of what we did once we arrived in NYC.