Travel day home to the US!

Our travel day was expected to be long...  We had our last yummy breakfast, packed up, said good-byes to the staff at Windy Hill Resort (BTW, if you are ever in the Cayo District I HIGHLY recommend them) and loaded the bus by 9am.  We left knowing there would be a wait at the airport.  The wait ended up being 3 hours as our drive was very uneventful, thankfully.  David had time to pick up the walkie-talkies (he was escorted by an officer) and we all just kinda hung out.  There are only 5 gates in the airport and they are all right in a very small space.  There were many travelers there, so it was tight quarters for sure.

Our flight out of Belize went really well.  There was bit of turbulence, but nothing I had experienced before.  I slept a lot because I took a Dramamine because just as I was getting on the flight my tummy felt yucky.

The customs, etc.... through Miami went ok.  We all made it through that without too much of an issue. (I got yelled at for having my phone out in a restricted area... such a rebel.  Actually never saw the sign.)  The Miami flight went well and we landed in Chicago at 10:10pm.  We got our luggage and waited quite a while for our hotel van to pick up the 15 of us.  We called ahead and were expecting a van just for us, but instead were filled to the brim (David and Jeff had to stand) due to many others jumping on it.

We left Chicago around 11:30.  We all were ready to get home but so tired.  We did stop at the Oasis to eat something and the only place open was McD's.  I had a palmagranite /blueberry smoothy.  I drifted in  and out of sleep from there until we hit the exit for Madison.  We dropped Barb off first and I was next.  I walked in around 3:30am....  Thank you Pat and David for driving us down there!  :)