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While going on vacation is always great, coming home is always better. We REALLY enjoyed seeing David and Yeh but Allyson was the center of attention. She is a sweetie and enjoyed hanging out with us. As usual, neither of us slept well the night before our return flight home. Mary awoke at 11:30 and I woke at 12:30. We only dozed off and on until 3 am and we decided to leave. We had no trouble getting to the Enterprise drop-off point and leaving the car. The shuttle arrived quickly and took us to the United terminal. As we feared, the bag check was very slow despite the fact that we had checked in and paid for our bag on line as well as printing our boarding passes. We got through security fairly quickly and had no problem making it to the gate well in time for our 6 am flight. The jet from Sacramento to Chicago-O’Hare was a Airbus A320 which has a lot of legroom and is a comfortable aircraft. A couple of rows behind us was a family with a two year old and infant both of whom screamed most of the flight. Thank goodness for noise cancelling headphones. We each had a scrawny but expensive ham and cheese breakfast sandwich on the flight then napped whenever possible. We had enough time to make the connection in Chicago after having to change concourses. We didn’t have enough time to get lunch so we ate the rice cakes and nuts that Mary had packed. The flight from Chicago to Charleston was on a small jet but was only an hour long. We stopped off for some groceries and arrived home in time to change the oil in the van and do some laundry. The rest of the evening was spent getting ready for the week ahead. Adjusting back to Eastern Time will be difficult as will getting back into a work schedule. I could get used to being on vacation!