When searching for flights to Honduras, I am always checking Appleton, Green Bay, Milwaukee and O'Hare (in that order), however I do take cost into account. For instance, if we fly out of O'Hare we can get to Honduras in the same day but I need to either rent a vehicle down and then back or I need to park my car for a month...which is about the same in terms of being extremely expensive. Flying out of Milwaukee will generally get us there the same day as well, and renting a vehicle to/from or the option of parking our own vehicle is less expensive than O'Hare but the ticket tends to be a little more.
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| Kaylyn packing sports items that will stay at Emmanuel |
Obviously tickets out of Green Bay (35 minutes away) and Appleton (5 minutes away) are going to cost quite a bit more than the previous two, but usually we can find a ride to either of those airports from Bob or another family member, so we save on vehicle transport costs. So I weigh in the total expense before getting tickets. This year the price of just the plane ticket to fly out of Appleton was almost equal to the price to fly out of O'Hare, however Appleton involved an overnight stay both on the way to Honduras and on the way back from Honduras. After researching 2 hotel costs versus vehicle transport costs...I decided that we would take those tickets out of Appleton. My mom took Kaylyn, Jaden and I (along with our 4 suitcases and our backpacks) to the Appleton airport with her van today and saw us off.
Today is Alina's 20th birthday, however family would not see her because she headed early this morning for South Carolina with a friend for a few days vacation. If she reads this blog, perhaps she will discover that I left her a card/gift on our kitchen cupboard back at home...Happy 20th Birthday Alina!
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| All packed and ready to go! |
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| Kaylyn at the Appleton airport |
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| Kaylyn and Jaden |
On the flight from Appleton to O'Hare, Kaylyn and Jaden got to sit in row 2 whereas I was in row 4. It was a small plan with only 2 seats on each side of the aisle and I think I counted 48 seats total. The flight was good and we came into O'Hare with no problem. We were supposed to have about a 5 hour layover in O'Hare with our plane to Houston departing time being 9:15pm, however I got a few notifications that the time would change. The first notification said it would be delayed until 9:50pm, then 10:50pm, then the next notification said that the plane had a "lesser delay" and would be leaving at 10pm, and finally they had a hard time finding crew for the plane, so we ended up leaving at 11:30pm. This put us in Houston around 2:00am, and I felt at that point it really wasn't worth it to head to the hotel as we would only get about 2-3 hours of sleep before waking to shower, have breakfast, and turn around and head back to the airport. So we tried to find a comfortable place to sleep.
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| Flying out of Appleton |
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| Waiting at O'Hare to fly to Houston |
Kaylyn had 3 comfy chairs put together into a "bed", I put 2 chairs together for Jaden to sleep on, and I grabbed my backpack as a pillow and laid on the floor. A few minutes later, Kaylyn told me that there was a mouse running around. She pointed it out to me about 20 feet away, and I decided perhaps the floor is not the best place to sleep. So I gathered my backpack and tried to get as much rest as possible in a chair near them. Tomorrow morning we will fly from Houston to Honduras, the plane is set to leave at 9:35am.
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