Trip to Arizona: Time to go Home

Playing with Daddy at our Phoenix hotel.

Saying "Good bye" to Erika.

Our fun trip to Arizona has finally come to an end.  We are back home with thunderstorms and tornado warnings now.  Both Ethan and I have the beginnings of a cold -- a pretty good sign that it was time to get home.  Yesterday, we spent some time saying goodbye to Sangita and Erika before driving up to Phoenix for the night.  We took our car back last night as well, so that we could just take the hotel shuttle to the airport in the morning and not have to worry about the car return (since our flight left at 7:15am).  It worked out nicely, since the Phoenix airport car rentals are so far from the airport terminal and we would have had to ride a shuttle anyway.  Getting dropped off at the front door of our terminal was much nicer.

The flight home was uneventful, except that it was very bumpy meaning the "fasten seatbelt" didn't go off for almost the entire flight.  Ethan was pretty good.  He kept acting hungry but didn't want to eat anything.  Luckily, he was able to sleep most of the flight and we kept him entertained with toys for the rest of the flight.

Fun while returning the rental car.

It was sad to leave Arizona, as it always is, but it will feel good to sleep in our own beds tonight.  As a side note -- Ethan had a huge smile on his face when he saw his mobile over his crib when I put him to bed!