Vacation Day one:- The Journey

            Note – this and all my vacation posts are being back dated to the correct date this stuff happened.

            Here we are!  First day of vacation. :)  We (my parents, brother and SIL) are going on a cruise of the Hawaiian islands. – Paid for by my parents!  (Thank you!)  This day started out with me getting up super early (alarm at 4 am  - got up around 4:30).  The time my parents were picking me up had kept changing.  First it was 10, then 9, then the night before mom calls and tells me the boarding time is 11:15 – so to be safe the pick up time was pushed back to 8:30.   It had taken me much longer the night before to get everything packed, so I had a lot of stuff to do in the morning.  I booked out time.  Luckily I had done the litter box area the night before so I didn't have to do that in the morning.   I spent some time on last min stuff in the snake room, then concentrated on giving a last meal and watering the spiders.  That took much longer then I thought, but I got it done.   I also discovered one of my avacs that I was worried about – dead.  I was afraid of that.  he/she just wasn't right the last few weeks.   But as I have 50+ spiders it is more likely for me to lose one.  I also have two mature males I know will go any time. 

            Anyway back to the trip.  So my parent's picked me up just as I was finishing.  I know I had a thing or two I could have done (like unload the dishwasher) but I was out of time.   Everything went smoothly at the airport.  We had a 7 hour flight from Colorado to Hawaii. There were several movies, but they didn't reset on a continual basis.  As a result, I wasn't able to finish watching the last movie.

            At first they loaded the wrong ones, and I was looking at one of the “Underworld” movies – which I'd be more interested watching at home, not on an airline.   They reset the movies which took time, and mom and I (she was in the seat next to me and selected the same movie)  watched “The woman in black”   a ghost story.   I should mention (for those who don't know) that the TVs were embedded in the seat backs... everyone had one.  You also could play games, and there was a detachable remote in the seat as well.  

            It was an interesting movie... after we got it to play in English instead of French.  We both had selected English to begin with but somehow this was changed when the movie started playing. :(  So I missed the beginning.   The one thing I didn't know is why the main character wanted to go to the haunted house in the movie to begin with.   It is reveled as we follow the main character that a woman living in the house had a son, who was adapted by her sister and her brother in law.  The woman was most likely insane – or seen that way.  The setting was I THINK in the 30s or 40s.  They had older cars and still got around in horse drawn carriages.  The setting was also in Europe, as the man mentioned traveling back to London.  The little boy was in a carriage accident and drowned in the marsh surrounding the house.  His body was never recovered, and the woman committed suicide – which we see when the main character finds a death certificate.  (It's listed as “Self murder”)  The woman has enacted revenge on the town in general – anyone that sees even a glimpse of her causes her to act.  She entices children to kill themselves.   The opening scene in the film show three little girls playing with dolls and a tea set who suddenly get up and trance-like walk through the tea-set and dolls, crushing the china and open a set of windows – where they step out – presumably to their deaths as later the protagonist rents out that room and it's an attic. 

            The man whose adapted son was killed is the 2^nd main character.  His wife is going insane and seems to be able to channel the dead children.  The curse of the woman in the black dress is reveled by this couple.   I won't mention the end of the movie – other then to say – sometimes it's not so simple to resolve a hunting. 

            The second movie that I watched – after taking a break and skipping the next go around of movies – was Chronicle.   I had wanted to see this one.  Unfortunately, though we had 7 hours and there should have been plenty of time to fit three full cycles of movies as the longest one was about 1 hour and 45 minutes... they paused way too long between showings and the last part of the movie was cut off for me.  So I will have to rent it or something.   I think I get an idea of how its going to end though. 

            Once we arrived at our hotel, we discovered a mix up.  Somehow the rooms got booked under MY name.   My parents straightened it out and got an upgrade too.  We were all to have ocean views.  I was skeptical it would be no more then a glimpse between two buildings... but was pleasantly surprised when we not only had a GREAT view but a balcony as well.  One thing I forgot about places that tend to be in the 80s or higher all the time – it's too hot outside and too cold inside, because inside they have the AC on full blast!.  We had a long day – so for the most part we just relaxed, had dinner and went to bed.