Flying Home for Christmas

When I woke the children this morning, they complained that they did not have a single day since arriving in the states, where they could sleep in. All I could say, “Welcome back to the real world, you better get used to it, the days of sleeping in are over.” However the excitement of going back home to New Zealand is great and so their tiredness is soon forgotten. They jump out of the bed and into the shower and are ready to go with their luggage in their hands. To my surprise there are no hick ups this morning. We reach the airport in time, have got plenty of time to check in, the luggage is getting checked through to New Zealand and before we know it, we are sitting on the plane from Orlando to Los Angeles, which is a five hour flight. We had to wait 10 hours for our connection flight to New Zealand, but I had allowed plenty of time in between flights, just in case! This time round we were lucky and had a very relaxing, but boring time on the relatively small airport in Los Angeles. Never mind better this way, then racing all the way! We were all happy when we finally boarded our plane that would bring us safely back to New Zealand. New Zealand watch out here we come.