our journey home...

our journey home began on Saturday, December 16th with a 6:20pm flight out of the Philidelphia airport. we were on our way to L.A. for a 11.5 hour lay-over. this provided us with the opportunity to spend some time with some good friends. james and aya kwong picked us up at LAX at about 10:30ish and took directly to eat Pho.

it was interesting (and somewhat amusing) that james was cold...aya was freezing...and sandi was comfortable in a light jacket. she is adjusting to the cold east coast!=) anyway...it was time to party! ...grad party, that is. james had just graduated the day before with his Masters degree in Divinity from Talbot, and we (sandi and i) were buying! so we went to eat Pho...and curry...and spring rolls...and spicy stewed beef...and...other foods. it was a wonderful time with james and aya. (just for the record, i had stomach-flu-like-symptoms...and even though i barely touched my Pho...it still was great to be there)

after our meal we went back to the house, where james and aya live with ed, nora and josh! we got to meet aya's brand new taylor guitar...chat a bit with ed...and get to bed...for 6 hours (which we thought was GREAT!). at 6:15am we got up, packed up and headed to the airport. the night before we had planned to go to Panera Bread for some morning munchies. but, alas, when we got there in the morning it was closed. (closed at 6:30am??!!) so we went straight to the airport and caught our plane home to Hawaii!!=)

here we are at the house with James and Aya:



Sandi and Aya:

Me, Sandi, and Ed!