Crushing Disappointment

For months we have been anticipating a visit from our Hawaiian relatives. Hubby's beautiful sister, Leilani and her family were scheduled to arrive today. They could only spare one day for us out of their Las Vegas vacation and we were more than willing to accept that because we adore them that much!  We scrubbed the house from top to bottom, carefully planned how we would rearrange the girlies so that our guests could take the room with two double beds in it... and we planned a family bbq/ fire pit night as well.

We were so excited!

Ashley flew in from Atlanta last night, skipping her very last soccer game and banquet in order to be here for the fun of showing our Hawaiian family some snow.  We were all pretty tired by the time we got home at 1:30am and most of us went to bed immediately because we knew we had a long and exciting day ahead of us. We planned on being back at the airport to pick them up at 10:20am.

Can you guess where this is headed?

Hubby jumps out of bed this morning at 8am to check flights and make sure Leilani understands how to fly standby (he gave them buddy passes and paid the fees a few weeks ago). Two minutes later he came back to bed, shoulders slumped and he said, "They're not coming. Leilani's too sick."  Oh. Sad.  Yesterday Leilani posted on Facebook that she thought she had food poisoning. We understand food poisoning while on vacation. Oh boy do we ever! (6 out of 8 of us had food poisoning so bad on our Kona trip last year that we had to stay an extra day in Hawaii because we were too sick to fly) Honestly, we really just hope that she feels better soon for her sake.. and for her unborn baby's sake as well! But we are sad.  Selfish, I know.

My girlies are in a funk. They skipped school today for the rare treat of spending time with family that we don't get to see very often. Ashley missed her last soccer game. The positive is that the house sparkles though! We are going to have our bbq anyway and we will light the backyard fire pit too. I also just overheard the girls say that they are going to go shopping today.  That's how we roll. We are adaptable.. we can come up with new plans on the fly...  But we sincerely hope that Leilani feels better soon because it is absolutely no fun to be so sick, especially while on vacation.

We are disappointed, but we will band together and manage it. Hopefully we can get them to come visit us some time in the not-too-distant future.

Get well soon, Leilani!  And give our love to Kona, baby Jolene and our buddy Christian!