Hawaii Get-away Monday Feb 12, 2018

I hate it when lousy flights get you off to a bad start! Our winter has been so mild, with no snow, that's there's really no reason to get away from it all! But, here we are! We flew from Boise to SF uneventfully enough, not looking forward to a 4 hour layover. Finally, we loaded into this huge 757-200 and got already to go. The pilot comes on and explains that they'd had trouble with their reverse thrusters. "The runway at Lihue is quite short, so we NEED those revere thrusters!" So, they unloaded us and all our luggage and put us on another plane. After several more hours. Sorry for the delay, but one of the oxygen masks had come loose and we need to fix that. Just as we were about to board that plane, we were advised that one of the toilets was broken so we could'n't use it. So we wait. Two options: fix the toilet or find an inbound  plane that we could use, which ever happened first.  The next plane arrived, after more waiting around, but now they had to find another pilot since that guy's hours had expired, which they did. Finally, 6 hours late, by now it was 11PM our body time, off we went. We arrived in Lihue at about 4:30 AM our time. Luckily, the Alamo people waited up or us. We picked up our car and found our way to the Kauai Shores in the dark where we'd spend the week.
Whew!!