Want to hear about my trip? Good! I knew you did!

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Yes, I realize that when people ask, "How was your trip?" after you get back from somewhere, it's a largely rhetorical question.

They don't really want to know. You're supposed to just answer, "Fine. We're glad to be back," or "We had a great time," and then move on.

However, since I have an online forum that's all about ME, euphemistically called a "blog," I can give you all the exhaustive details.

You lucky reader, you!

So.....

We started our little odyssey a month ago, with an exciting twelve-hour plane ride!!!

(This story's really starting out well, don't you think? By the way, f you're interested in the tale of the last time we flew to Alabama from Hawaii click here.)

To make the prospect of the horrific flight-to-come more palatable, we sprung for a limo ride to airport.

None of us had ever ridden in a limo (except Daddy) so the kids were super-excited. It was an awesome start to the trip.

Until we got to the airport and found out our flight was cancelled.

They didn't even tell us why it was cancelled. They just said, "You're not getting on an airplane today. You will be rescheduled. End of story." It was extremely anti-climactic.

So there we were, having paid a considerable sum of money for a fun limo ride to the airport, faced with the prospect of shelling out more cash for a cramped cab ride back home. And then pay again to come back to the airport for the rescheduled flight the next day.

Bummer.

But since the airline was offering to put everyone up in a hotel for the night, we decided that would be a cheaper option. (For us.)

So this is how we ended up at the Ohana Airport Hotel with all the other tourists.

We spent the whole next day watching inane cable TV, eating pizza, and drinking Pepsi in the hotel room.

At about noon, my husband turned to me and said, "Happy anniversary."

That's right. It was actually our anniversary.

Who would have guessed back in good old '93 that in nineteen years we'd spend a romantic day in Honolulu, Hawaii? With five kids in a crappy airport hotel eating take-out....

And's that's the answer to "How was your trip?" It started out rocky; it was always more trouble that we thought it would be; but we were together as a family, so it turned out okay.