Back to reality

We had a really great day yesterday with all my family and hanging around the pool. We had a mellow dinner altogether along with Grandma Bucky, Aunt Hobby, Judy and Joe at the hotel. And while we were eating there was a big lightning storm in the sky all around us. After dinner, my 3 siblings, their spouses, Rhodri and I just walked around the property chatting amongst ourselves and watching the spectacular lightning in the distance. It was a beautiful and special evening, and I'm grateful to my Mom for looking after Rhiannon and Tryfan so we could do these adult things.

On Monday morning, we were all straight back into the pool as early as we could get out there. Then we reluctantly got packed up and checked out of the hotel to start our journeys back home.

With Uncle Will in the back seat of the minivan

We did a bit of grocery shopping and then dropped Will, Rebecca and Phoebe at the Tucson airport before driving 2+ hours to Phoenix to go to Cabela's and then to the Phoenix airport so we could fly back to London.

Rhiannon w/ her baby Maya and her favorite baby cousin Phoebe

We had a leisurely dinner at the airport and then flew overnight to Heathrow. All of us slept a bit on the plane but then we had a bit of a problem coming through immigration because we didn't have the kids' British passports with us. That was kind of a pain and set us back about 30 minutes while we were detained. But then eventually we got home and it was all good.