florida trip - day eight

We woke up at the crack of dawn this morning, literally.  The alarm went off at 4 am, because we had to get packed up, checked out, return the rental car, check our bags, and get through security for our 9am flight.

Seriously, who's brilliant idea was it to have our return flight be so freaking early in the morning!?

Oh right.  That would be me.

Note to self: don't do this again.

Luckily it was a non-stop flight.  So it was just 5 hours and then we were home.  Except we got in to Phoenix about a half hour early and, because we were early, we had to sit out on the tarmac for that time because our gate was occupied.  Brilliant, US Airways and Phoenix Sky Harbor.  Thank you, very much.

Finally we got off, retrieved our bags and were picked up by Mom and Dad.  Once we got home we both crashed and went to bed.

It was such a great trip!!  I had so much fun and love that I'm able to check another thing off my bucket list now.

Early morning shot from the plane...not sure where exactly we were at this point...