Fine, We'll Leave

Every day we wonder if we should leave or not and every day we talk ourselves into staying!

I'm glad we have. It's been so wonderful playing in the sun and waves and being with friends.

Every day we wake up to over 50 text messages reporting on all the news back home...

Coronavirus statistics, missionaries coming home, earthquakes, church changes, etc.

It sounds so chaotic.

I've loved escaping for a while with our family.

(Knowing that Marty is happy with Lizzie, Courtney is happy with Michael

 and Chris is happy in Mexico.)

It makes it easy to be away not worrying about anyone left behind!

However, with a tourism ban beginning Wednesday night, a near empty resort and flights being cancelled, we decided to go home on Sunday night.

We got a letter on the porch of our villa saying, "as long as you're here, we'll keep people on staff. But most people are leaving early." Kinda got the hint.

It's okay. We're ready.

As much as we've travelled with the Rigby's and for as long as we're together,

I never ever get tired of it! So many laughs, games, fun conversation and working together.

Also a fun long history of being friends.

Love them!

When there's a shortage of TP in the world, Dan packed a couple rolls from our bathroom.

The Clif bars are what we brought "just in case" we couldn't get food.

Have I mentioned that originally we were arriving on Thursday and had a 2-bedroom villa.

Way back when we made the reservation, they only had a 2 bed unit left.

So Steph, Eric and Millie were going to stay in the hotel, 

but they would come over to cook and hang out.

Dan and me and the boys would be in the villa.

On Tuesday we got a note from Inspirato that they were cancelling all bookings due to coronavirus.

I called them in a panic telling them not to cancel ours because we were already here!

After talking to the head of the company and the lawyers, they let us know because we were already on site they wouldn't cancel.

Phew!

And by the way, since you're cancelling other people, 

would there by chance be a 3 bedroom available?

There was! And they gave it to us with no extra charge! 

And the Rigby's could cancel their room at no charge. (Thanks coronavirus.)

We also got a couple of rollaways so each boy could have their own bed 

and Millie could sleep in the huge closet.

On Sunday we took our usual long walk.

Then had breakfast, then church.

Songs, Sacrament, a talk by Elder Renlund and thoughts by Eric. 

Ended with a video on the restoration.

And spent the rest of the day laying on the chaise's outside the room,

reading "Redeemer" by David Butler and "Parables" by Hank Smith.

We packed up and had a last meal picnic-style in the Kihei park on our way to the airport.

When we checked out, they said there were only 18 people left in the resort!

(over 300 rooms) So crazy. Many of the hotels near us were totally shut down.

I took this photo before the Rigby's got there with their food.

We're spending Monday without a schedule because it's the last day of Spring Break.

And then tomorrow, home school begins.