Saturday morning we got up and had breakfast before heading to the pool for a couple hours before heading to the airport. We were lucky with the dates we chose since the day we left and the forecast showed an increase in temps by about 10 degrees from the weather we had. So the pool was perfect
Em was tired and a little restless/busy so we went in and out of the pool several times. When we were out of the pool we had snacks and hung out under the umbrella
Matt worked with the girls to practice their swimming
Then we headed to finish packing and get everyone bathed and ready to head for home. We drove the coastline to the airport we got to see the huge ships and the storage containers. We passed Redondo Beach and saw some surfers. We grabbed lunch at Arbys just down the street from the rental car place. It was a little crazy once again getting all the luggage from the car to the shuttle. On top of that all the girls needed to go potty so Matt unloaded the luggage and I took the girl potty. We got the the airport in plenty of time and then found out our flight was delayed an hour. To kill the time the girl played games, ran around, and colored. They made friends with a little Asian boy that spoke no English but they just played so well. It was a reminder that even if we are all different that shouldn't stop us from being kind and interacting with them. The flight on the way home wasn't full so we took up the entire row so we had plenty of space. I leaned forward at one point to get something out of the bag Em started scratching my back...it was really cute
By the time we got off our flight and collected our luggage we were ready to be home. We were lucky we were the first stop for the shuttle to take us to our car because there was a flight further down the line that people had a ton of luggage and had to wait a couple rounds before the shuttle could fit them in. We got to our car about 8:40pm and knew by the time we got home we would have to get the kids bathed and in bed so I could get to bed since I had to work the next morning but thats not exactly how it worked out...see the next post.
Debrief: We really enjoyed our vacation. It was not near as stressful or exhausting as everyone said it would be. I think a lot of that was attributed to having planned everything out and not having high expectations. We had planned to go back for lunch and naps and when the kids didn't want to or need them we didn't. The only thing to note for next time is we need to budget more money to eat out at the park more since we didn't go back for the provided dinner and lunch. We are still undecided as to whether or not the suite was worth it since we didn't really prepare meals at the hotel. If we were to do the suite again we would do one that had a table we could all eat at like our suite in San Diego. The kitchen was to squishy. The layout for the room was also not the greatest but it worked
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