“Almost home” is what I meant to say.

I type this as I sit in LAX at 5 AM on Monday morning, at an empty gate, awaiting our 8:15 flight home. By the time this posts, I will have been home for a little more than 24 hours … but right now, I just want to get there.

Red-eyes are not fun, not the flights and not the actual eyes.

And I do have red eyes, as I did not sleep a wink on the Kauai – LA flight. I tried but it wasn’t to be.

Middle seat for a 5 hour flight – Ugg!
Stuck between two people soundly sleeping…with my eyes wide open – Double Ugg!
Injured tailbone and sitting on a doughnut – Damn! (more on that later)

It was all worth it though. Even if the only good thing that happened on the trip, was seeing dolphins in Kauai. It still would have been totally worth it. Of course, there were many other amazing things about the trip, just saying.

I have SO many photos like the ones above – that I’m grouping together – so you can see a small sampling of them.

There were literally hundreds of dolphins surrounding our catamaran on two separate occasions. Wow!

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