Bound for our O"ahu Adventure!

What a bittersweet day this was for me.  We laid my beautiful sister, Jearl, to rest yesterday and today I find myself flying from RDU, North Carolin, to LAX, California, to HNL, O'ahu, HI.  We were in the air for over twelve hours, but the flights were not bad, so I actually managed to get some much needed sleep.  The last two weeks have been especially hard with my sister being so sick.  The time I spent with her in her last days and hours were very special to me, and I would not trade one minute of our time together for anything.

Over the Pacific!

                

Getting closer.  Just passed one of the islands.

I see O'ahu!

Paul took a selfie--his second ever.

Coming in for a landing!

Tim and his family met us at the airport, and it was so good to see them all.  We'd seen Tim just a few days earlier in NC.  He had flown in the see his Aunt Jearl one last time.  Maryann looked so good, as usual, and the kids had grown so much since we'd last seen them.  Ethan is taller than I am and enjoys looking down at me.  Natalie and Kate looked just the same except they were so much taller as well.  Kids have a tendency to grow up, you know.  They filled us in on their tour of Pearl Harbor that we had missed.  It seems they learned a lot and were very excited about it!

We arrived at our villa at Turtle Bay and explored the beach here at the villa just a little.  We settled in and Paul and I were going to take a "quick" rest while Tim and family went to check out the pool and the things to do here at Turtle Bay.  The next thing we knew it was morning!  In our defense, the time here is six hours behind NC, so we'd been up a very long time and had traveled many, many hours to get here.  Needless to say, we were tired. 

The view for our window at the Turtle Bay Resorts.