Red Eye Flight

As the sun was setting, we returned our rental and made it to the airport. We took a few minutes on the lawn in front to eat all the food we had leftover that couldn't be taken through security.

And we enjoyed one last sunset. (Actually we pretty much missed it but this is a super cool shot of the moon & palm trees. So Hawaiian!!

The kids and I laughed as my prosthetics (my fake boobs) got checked for drugs by security. You should have seen the look on the lady's face when she felt them in the zipper pocket of my suitcase. It was so funny! Brett had gone through separately and was wondering where the heck we were! LOL We also stopped at a photo booth to just to be silly! Man! I love these kiddos!

The wait seemed awfully long to get onto the plane! Probably because it had already been a long week and it was 10 o'clock at night. (which is already like 2am back in Helena) But we passed the time with electronics plugged into the wall or running up & down the moving walkways. In fact, we almost didn't make the flight because Justice & Victoria went down a few too many walkways in the wrong direction!!!! Ahhhhhhhhhhggggg! Get us out of here! LOL But we are super grateful to be able to stop in Seattle and visit with Shauna before our long drive home. Thank heavens for Shauna!!! ;)

I always wondered why they called it a "Red Eye Flight" but sweet Victoria was living proof of the name! LOL I tried to get them to sleep but the fact that we were scattered all over the plane and I couldn't get them to stop watching the in-flight movie--- I'm pretty sure Brett's the only one that got much sleep. {He rode all the way in the back by himself!;}

I couldn't get to my nice camera and I was really on the wrong side of the plane for it--- but this is the sun rising as we made it back to the mainland. It was amazing to watch even from my limited view as a couple of my kids had finally zonked on my row. Whew! Long night!

Flight Back to Maui

Here's some shots of our flight back to Maui. I love the Island Hopper planes!

Mokulele Island Hopper

One thing that Brett wanted to do for sure in Hawaii with our own little family was to make it to the Temple & the Polynesian Cultural Center. We were a little bummed when we found out we were going to be on the wrong island. But Brett being Brett- he found a way to fix that problem. ;) He found a little airline that could do an island hop for a day. It turned out to be way cool because the plane only holds 9 people and the pilots. AND it flies way close to the islands. The views are amazing! It only added to the newest and awesomeness of our adventure.
We woke up early and drove up the coastline past Lahaina to the Kapalua Airport. We giggled because it was so tiny, no security and it had 5 gates that all led out to the same airstrip. LOL

Here's us checking in, waiting at the "gates" and the outside of the airport building from the plane window when we took off.

Here's us before we boarded the plane:

Here's the views from our window:

Kapalua Airport

JHM Airport

4050 Honoapililani Hwy

Lahaina, HI

(808)665-6108

$75.72 one way

Enterprise Rental Car

3255 Aolele St

Honolulu, HI 96819

(808)836-2213

$72