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There are other changes as well.
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Hawaii is a definite bucket list destination for me. And for the moment we live a ten hour flight away. We will probably be here until August 2017 maybe even 2018 but with the risk we might be going home to Scotland in 2017 I want to do aulani either October this year or May next year.
I originally planned it for our 2016 holiday but our DS Rory worked himself up into a massive phobia about the volcanos there. As he was feeling massively unsettled by us just moving to Australia I canned that idea and booked WDW for Easter 2016. No disappointments there.
dH and I have been discussing how to make Aulani work for weeks. Our complication is that although we live in Brisbane Rory is going to boarding school in Scotland from August and I want to see him for as many school holidays as possible. So time off to go to Scotland and time off for Aulani seemed difficult to work together.
dH and I finally came up with a plan. He would fly to Scotland in August with
Rory. Fly back to Brisbane at the end of September and we would go have our holiday in Aulani then Rory would fly to Brisbane to spend his October holidays with us instead of me going to join both of them in Scotland
Ok so we have a plan. Not ideal because it involves a lot of flying but that's our life for the next year. I booked 9 nights at Aulani this morning and Graeme and I started talking about having a honeymoon as we never actually had one.
Fast forward to lunch time and we are chatting about our trip. Rory has agreed to fly unaccompanied minor to Brisbane to let me have my bucket list trip. We are casually talking about WDw and I mentioned that Kona cafe was named after one of the Islands in Hawaii (he loves Kona) and he asked what island we were going to. I mentioned Oahu and talked about doing the jusrrassic park tour. Next thing I know he is begging to Come with us!!!
This means instead of flying unaccompanied minor to Brisbane on his own from Edinburgh and his dad flying Edinburgh to Brisbane late September Brisbane to Oahu in October they can both fly together from Edinburgh to Oahu in October and back. A much neater solution.
So would you credit it after finally getting to book Aulani. Have to wait two weeks for the school holiday window to open up and cancel my booking for early October and instead book late October. At least it gives me some flight planning to do meantime.
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Not sure whether that is a good thing or bad. Nice to have the family time, but I'm sad about another lost honeymoon.
I'm not too sad about losing the honeymoon as we will still be together and Rory won't be little much longer.
I was trying to make 3 things work simultaneously. I wanted to go to Hawaii, I wanted to see Rory during his holidays and I didn't want him flying unaccompanied minor. Him coming with us is the only option that achieves all that so it works out for the best.
I just wish he would have been open to that months ago and saved me trying to find an alternative solution
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It's funny - we were only talking about Rory and volcanoes when we were in Iceland, as they have volcanoes and we were saying we wouldn't be surprised if he said at some point he actually wanted to go. We must be mind readers...
Hey, at least you're going and you know you're going to love it out there. I am jealous - we're hoping to get back Christmas 2017, but that seems so far away right now.
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