Hawaii ... The flight home
The girls dropped us off at the Honolulu airport
around 8:15 PM, Friday evening, October 31, for our 10:15
departure. Check in was very smooth. After checking
our bag and going through security, we had some pizza for dinner
and waited. Our flight was on-time and we were on our way
back across the Pacific for the mainland. We landed in
Phoenix ahead of schedule the next morning and grabbed some
breakfast at a McDonald's there. The flight to Philadelphia
was slightly delayed because of a congestion problem in
Philly. That seemed to be a popular trend! After
dinner in the Philly airport we waited for the flight to
Watertown. This was delayed 46 minutes because of a
"delay in a prior flight". We later found out that
the plane we were flying on was delayed in its previous
voyage. The plane rolled up to the gate when the gate
display said "boarding starts in 2 minutes"! This
leg was fairly uneventful, although we did have some turbulence
coming into Watertown because of the wind. Originally
scheduled to land at 7:55 PM, we touched down around 8:40 and we
were back at the house before 9 PM. Because our
Honolulu to Phoenix flight was during the night, we didn't bother
bringing a camera. As it turned out, we did see the sunrise
coming into Phoenix so we probably should have. The last leg
to Watertown was also after dark, so we didn't have the camera out
then. All of our pictures were from the Phoenix to Philly
leg. It was a fairly clear day and even from 31,000 feet, we
could see the ground most of the time. If we hadn't been
sitting over the wing, we could probably have gotten some nicer
shots.
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