Our Cruise- Day 5 (going home)

Day 5- May 25

This was a long day of traveling. We were up early with Reshen and were already packed and eating breakfast by 7:30 a.m.. We had to check out of our rooms by 8 a.m. but couldn’t get off of the ship until our color was called (they disembarked the ship by groups, each assigned a color). Reshen was so tired that he fell asleep in my arms while we were waiting in the ship’s theater. We hung out there for over an hour... at least the seats were comfortable and they had a large TV.

The disembarking process was long… we had to wait to be called, then we had to wait in a line to get off the ship, then we had to wait in another line to go through customs. I think it took close to 2 hours. Reshen had some antsy moments, as can be expected, but overall he did great.

We still had a long time until our flight left Los Angeles, so we all went to Long Beach and let Reshen stand in the water. He loved it!

Then we had some tasty dim sum for lunch at a Chinese restaurant. Reshen had fallen asleep in the car and got maybe a 30 minute nap. He woke up on our way into the restaurant and was happy to sit in his high chair and eat. It was really the first good amount of food he ate on the trip.

We then went to the airport and found we had a small delay, due to some air traffic control issue. It wasn’t a big problem, though, and went got to Seattle around 7 p.m. with little problem. Reshen was awake the whole time on the plane and it took a lot of distraction to keep him happy… exhausting! He fell asleep in the car on the way home and stayed asleep all night. It was a fun trip, but we are happy to be back in our own beds.