In the Meantime...

Well, here it is, Saturday morning and we still haven't left yet. At this point, we aren't trying to get all the way to the states. Our current game plan is to catch a flight to Hawaii, then try and hop from there, or get on a commercial flight. There was a flight yesterday morning. Twenty seats available. Only twenty. Sometimes they open up more than they say they have. Not this time. One flight to Hickam over the weekend that has been posted. Guess how many seats. Ten. Yes, ten. Now, like I said sometimes more become available, but it's pretty safe to say we will not get on that flight later today. I know I should be positive about catching one soon, but it's getting really hard to be. I could say "I'm positive we won't get out anytime soon", but I don't think that counts. I'm not sure if I wrote it before, but when you sign up to get on a flight, you're put into a category. I don't know what all of them mean, but I'll try to sort them out:

1-Emergency/medical
2-Military person. (alone)
3-Military person and family.
4-Family without military person. (This is what category we're in)
5-Students, maybe? I'm not sure about this one.
6-Retired I think.

When roll call begins, it goes in order of categories from the top. Cat. one is open the whole time, and everyone's name is called down the list until the seats are filled. Lately there have been a bunch of two's and three's. Which sucks for the rest of the people because our names never get called. I don't know how well this makes sense, because it's still confusing to me, and I'm in the middle of all of it. I'm just trying to clear it up a little. Some families in cat. four are trying to get their military person, (for me, it would be my dad) to bump them up a category by going with them to Hawaii and turning around and coming back. If we can't get out soon, I think that's what we're going to do too...

So between going to the terminal, waiting for three to five hours, going back home, and waiting for a new flight, you might think I'd have a lot of time on my hands. And you would be correct. Too bad I'm not using any of it. Getting up super early, or staying up til the wee hours in the morning wear me out, so what do I do when I get home from another failed attempt of getting a hop? Sleep of course! That in turn messes my whole schedule up, so I'm sleeping during the day, and well, not sleeping at night. The good thing about that is when I do finally get back in the states, I won't be turned around. Sleep-wise that is. I'm not sure how long it'll take me to figure out what day it is there...

Other than sleeping my time away, I'm still as-patiently-as-I-possibly-can-be waiting for my SoGoPro shirt. According to my purchase date, it was six weeks Sunday the 25th. But according to the SoGoPro blog picture dates of the packages, my guess would be around Thursday 28th or Friday 29th that they sent them out. I really hope it wasn't lost, or stolen, or delivered to the wrong house. One, because I paid $45 for it, and two, I want to show off my SGP pride...
Maybe I'll get it tomorrow...

I should be getting to bed. I'm actually tired despite sleeping all afternoon.

God bless and good night.