A step away, and Day 1 of our new adventure

So I had to take a step away because things got real fast for us. When we got orders to move UCONOS and needing to list our house and him deployed, I just never had time to share all that was going on with you! However we have arrived in our new home and I keep seeing posts complaining about being here and the way things are here so I have decided I need to commit and make time to share what we are doing because their is way to much negative out there!

So we arrived here in beautiful Hawaii. We spent a week in a hotel before flying out, it wasn't much fun. I remember vacations being a blast, but as an adult its a lot less entertaining. New respect for my parents. The flight leaving Tennessee was delayed to the point that when we landed in Houston we had to run to the tram and run from it to our gate getting there after boarding had started. But we made the flight, sadly because we left so early in the morning we had few snacks on us and ended up having to spend a ton on the plane snacks for 5 people but after an 8 hour flight we made it! The kids did awesome!

After we landed we spent a good deal of time running around, getting to the hotel, getting our rental, going and picking up our cat. As a side note if you have a pet, don't move here! Its a huge pain to get your pet into this state. If you have to start early because its a long process to keep your animal out of quarantine and after seeing that place you want to keep your animal out of there! Most depressing place on earth! Anyway, after being up for 24 hours we all went to bed, but sadly struggled to get on local time that first night.

Now I know you are thinking big that sure sounds like a lot of negative but that was just the lead up and the first half day :) And really with 12 checked bags and 6 carry ons I think we rocked it :)