HOME TIME! Into a taxi at 7:15am, checked in, found our departure gate, breakfast at Starbucks (only option around Gate 27!) and we were in the air on our way home, no delays this time. Let me just say, 10 hours is a long time to sit ALL DAY! We passed the time watching movies - Pearl Harbor is 3 hours, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is 2 hours, Soul Surfer (great true story set in Kauai, we recognised lots of places!) is 1 1/2 hours... and there was STILL time for...

Yep, its D-Day...Decade Day. The start of a new era. Apparently this is where life begins, or so Dave and the Dynamos led us to believe back in 1983 (you youngsters might want to refer to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMSIvMLtUyc so you'll know what I'm on about!) In reality it doesn't feel any different to any other birthday, or any other random day! Although the holiday is the real present for both of us, and I'd scored myself a gorgeous new handbag and wa...

Headed out at 9am to catch TheBus to Pearl Harbor - which turned out to be a long wait for a very crowded bus, the previous one never turned up so everyone wanted the same one as us. At least it was cheap, $7.50 for the 4 of us. Having spent the past 10 days in a news and media vacuum we weren't aware of the US Federal Govt shutdown affecting all 'non-essential services', due to their inability to agree on a budget for their 800,000 employees, i.e. RIDICULOUS!!...

LAZY TUESDAY! Slept in until... wait for it... 6:45am, woo! We mucked around and had a late breakfast, the boys rolled out of bed at 9am so they got their wish. They refused to entertain the idea of getting out of their PJs before lunch! Chay and I decided to go check out a couple of shops a few blocks away, we left the boys with the TV and other entertainment devices, along with instructions not to kill each other - potentially a tall order! We found a few...

A cracker of a start to the day - literally! Broke my right middle toe as I tried to avoid Cody in the hallway by smacking my foot on the corner - ouch BUT… the show must go on! We dragged the kids out the door at 6:30am to hit the road. We struck a hyperactive valet who had our car out in a flash, its criminal to have that much energy at that hour of the morning! Great service though No traffic issues at all, although there was an accident and tra...