Day 7: Travel Home
Our final hours of vacation were upon us. The alarms were going off much earlier then we would have liked them to at 3:30am. We slowly got ready and by 4:30am we were leaving my parents house to go to the Charleston airport where we would be catching a 6am flight back to Salt Lake City. We choose this early fight because it would put us back in Utah at 11:30am. I time we needed to be back as Kiera would be returning to work today at 1:30pm.
Its always sad to say goodbye to your family but we would be seeing them again soon when they came to Utah to visit later that summer. My Mom woke up too to give us her love before we left, then we pilled all our stuff into the car and my Step Dad drove us to the airport since his work at Boeing was right next to it anyways.
Last time we flew out of Charleston the airport was like a ghost town. It was the quickest and easiest we've ever gotten thru airport security. That was not the case today though as we were shocked to find how packed the airport was at 5am. The security line was way long. It took us nearly 30 minutes to get thru it all. Then the TSA agents working this early weren't all with it as the Agent claimed I gave her the wrong ticket. I had to keep point out to her that CHS was charleston not Chicago where our layover would be.
Eventually though we did get thru security and to our gate Just before they started boarding for the flight. We got the car Seat and stroller checked in. this time though we elected to not pick up the carseat in Chicago and would just get it at the gate in Salt Lake so we wouldn't have to haul it around with us. Our flight was full but with Family boarding we found some decent seats before taking flight. Daniel fell back asleep and stayed asleep for pretty much the entire flight. Kiera also did the same.
It was kinda odd having a departing flight when it was still somewhat dark outside as we've never left this early before. The flight was quite with many people sleeping and before long we started our decent into Chicago where we would have about a 45 minute layover before continuing on to SLC.
While stopped in Chicago we decided to grab breakfast. We both decided to try breakfast greek style from a Greek place in the food court. We actually really liked the food. If I recall right I belive we were in such a rush to get to our connecting flight that we didn't eat breakfast until we were actually on the plane.
We kicked ourselves on this flight for not getting the car seat when we stopped. The flight from Chicago to Salt Lake wasn't full so we would have been able to bring the car seat onboard with us and Daniel could have had his own seat. We still let Daniel have the empty seat once we were in the air but he really didn't want to sit in it long by himself.
Another short flight later and we were landing in Salt Lake ahead of schedule. It was so odd being back home before Noon as this really didn't seem like a vacation day. It was even more odd that Kiera went into work after traveling all morning. Kieras aunt picked us up and took us back to her parents where our car was at. After eating lunch I dropped Kiera off at work and Daniel and I went home and got the car unpacked. Our short vacation was over. But this was just a quick getaway to see my family anyways. We had a larger vacation coming later in the summer.
And that concludes this trip report. Thanks to those of you taking a look and reading along. Stay tuned as I will start my next review soon and will link it up here. Thanks everyone.