Thurber Hawaii Trip: Day 6, Part 2, Surf Lessons and Farewell

 Monday July 18, 2022

We raced back from Kailua Beach to get everyone to their surf lesson on time at 3pm. Unfortunately, traffic going back to the beach house was horrendous. We have never seen traffic this bad on Oahu; we think it was because the highway was shut down on the other side of the island. The good news is that the surf instructors were also late to the lesson, so everything worked out in the end.

The instructor basically said, "paddle when the wave comes, then stand up!"

Making the long swim out to the surf

Elisa started to catch a wave.

Lisa started to catch a wave.

Ian's bored.

We walked back to the beach house to wrap up our last night in Hawaii. For dinner, we had lobster rolls with avocados that Mark stole picked at the tantalus lookout. We took some final sunset photos before packing up and going to bed.

Happy 40th Anniversary!

Tuesday July 19, 2022

We tried to get everyone up before 5am so we could load the van and get to the airport. Grandpa and Grandma came over to take almost all of our luggage again. Michael took an uber sometime around 4:30am so he could get to the airport 3 hours early. Everything went surprisingly smoothly, and we had some free time at the airport to wander around the shops. We flew into Oakland expecting a 2 hour layover, but we soon discovered that our connecting flight was delayed almost 2 more hours. We ended up arriving at the SLC airport around 11pm. We walked the 1/2 mile to baggage claim, took the shuttle to our van, drove to the Blaylocks, and went straight to bed. I'm pretty sure everyone slept in late the next day.