We began our Kodiak adventure from a room at Motel 6 in SeaTac, just a few miles from the airport. We spent 3 full days and 4 nights in this room, venturing from said room to visit our old church, build a bear at Build-a-Bear workshop, have dinner with dear friends who we hadn't visited with for years, visit the Seattle Aquarium and take a trip to the mall (remember, that is a big deal for us - no big malls in Coos Bay and no malls period in Kodiak!). Let me tell you, it was a good thing we had opportunity to 'get out' because 10 'check-able bags', 5 'carry-ons', 5 'personal items', 5 people, 1 dog and one dog crate makes for a very small room!
We all woke at 5:30am to be ready for our 6:30am pick-up at which time we crammed all of our worldly belongings (at least, all that were not already in or on their way to Kodiak) into the Suburban we hired to take us to the airport. Check-in took a while but all went smoothly, Henessy was drugged-up, her crate was searched and we were on our way!
Most of our bags lined up by the door of our room, with our clothes laid out for the next day. It doesn't look quite as dramatic in the picture as it did in real life, but I decided I'd still share.
Here is my family waiting for the subway train to take us to one of the satellite terminals at SeaTac airport.
Miriam on the train, just because...
A healthy breakfast at the airport.
Incidentally, I don't know who Josh paid off but he was assigned a seat next to Joshua and I was assigned a seat with the two wild children...what's up with that? Lol!
We did lose a couple before we landed in Kodiak...
...luckily we were able to revive them upon arrival!
It was a rather ugly day when we arrived, like a mid-winter day in Coos Bay, but we have had many lovely, sunny days since...including today which is close to 70 degrees! It is wonderful and we are certainly going to enjoy it while we can.
Oh, yay! I was hoping you'd blog about your trip and post some pictures of Kodiak. So glad you made it there safely and without incident. God is good!
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