Vacation was fun, especially since we did get a couple days of sun out there, but it was finally time to come home. Since we were coming from the eastern end of Long Island, our travel day started early, early early. I mean leaving the house at 5:30am early. It was a car ride to JFK, then the AirTrain to the terminal:

Dogs are absolutely not allowed out of their cases while on the airplane. No way. Most of the time, the flight attendants don’t even like the case to come out from under the seat. This morning though, Charlie got lucky and spent a good chunk of the flight asleep on my lap, hiding underneath my sweatshirt. If the flight attendants saw, they pretended not to! (Big props to the Virgin America crew from this morning’s flight – they were an awesome group. The pilots actually let us take a picture in the cockpit before take off! And the flight attendants were super cool.) Charlie was a good traveler today and quietly slept nearly the entire time. The photo’s dark, but if you look closely, you can see a little black nose poking out:

Because we don’t travel so lightly – luggage, laptops, snacks, a bike, Charlie – Charlie got to ride on the luggage cart once we got to LAX:

And now we’re back home! Phew. It was a great trip, but we’re all exhausted. When we got home, Charlie took me on a good walk around the neighborhood and now it’s time for him to take another nap. Me, well, I’m back at it – “it” being reality. My job search beckons.