Leaving on a jet plane

     On Thursday morning Darv and I were off to an early start to catch our plane out of LAX. Our plane ended up being two hours delayed, which meant we wouldn’t make any of our connection flights! So, in our moment of need, Darv stepped up to the plate by cutting a 300 person line and managing to get us on already boarded plane, that was headed to our same connection. We left from LAX, had a layover in Newark, flew across the pond to Lisbon and finally caught our last flight to Madeira. We got plenty of exercise sprinting through the air ports, lots of reading done waiting in long customs lines and plenty of grey hairs worrying over our 3 bags of lost luggage. Most importantly we arrived in Madeira safely, and all’s well that ends well, right.

   

     Mom and dad were waiting for us at the airport and we all drove back to the hotel in Machico. We took a walk around the cobble stoned downtown and ate dinner on our balcony over looking the ocean and a sea of terracotta roofs. After sleeping upright, on top of suitcases, between strangers and rolled into tight balls, we slept like kings on our queen-sized bed. One of our lost luggage’s (that ended up in Germany?!) arrived this morning and the other two we are told will arrive this afternoon. Things seem to be shaping up to a beautiful first day in Madeira. Here are some pictures from our morning walk along the beach.  

Lava stone beach 

Sand beach 

Darv was going to get this lure but it's too small..

Not a bad view from the balcony