Home Again, Home Again

* I interrupt my regularly scheduled programming to make the following announcement: I won my region in Phats' bracket contest. Yeah you read that right. This girl did her first ever bracket all by herself and won her region. If only I'd had a clue what I was doing. Okay I'm done. Back to Florida. So we can come home from Florida. *


I had to set my alarm for 5 a.m. On a Saturday. Criminal. I got ready, stuffed the last of the "stuff" in my suitcase, and got ready to leave. This is how I felt about both the hour and the prospect of leaving the state. Sneaked out and took onnnnnnnnnnnnnne last picture of my precious beach.

We somehow crammed all that stuff back in the Altima - and my carry-on suitcase resumed its position in my lap.

They call this a sunrise. Have you heard of them? :) Actually this was a really pivotal moment. I'll have to tell you about that in another post.

We got to the airport and I made it through security a little bit better than the time before. Unfortunately I'd not yet had a drop of coffee. Thank the Lord for Starbucks.

Khi was pretty happy - PYANE! PYANE!!!

Our flight out was at 8:45 in the morning and I thought the fact that it was so early in the day and NOT preceded by a 7 hour wait in the airport would make it an easy peasy flight.

Wrong.

I had more anxiety on this one than I did on the first one! Part of it was because I was in a row by myself. Megan, Khi, Silas, and Ronda were all across the aisle and back a bit.

Another pyane. Yeah you stay over in your own airspace, pyane.

We arrived early - and were on the ground before noon! Kristin, who had borrowed my car while I was gone, picked me up at the airport and took me to....

...you ready for this?....

SONIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She called me even before I left Florida to make the arrangements to pick me up, and during that call, she mentioned the Sonic outing. It was truly the only thing that gave me any hope for coming home. After we left Sonic (I had to stop on the other side of town to get more caffeine just to make it home!) I drove home, said hi to the cats, did not pass go, did not collect $200....

Good night.