4th of July / Malta

 

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To celebrate the fourth we decided to head to Malta, which also happens to be where we spent the fourth last year. Our flight was scheduled for 5:15pm on Friday night. We got to the airport to find out our flight is delayed till 9:30pm. We received vouchers for food from the cafe and went to wait. While we were eating we noticed the board change our delayed time to 11:30pm! We got told the plane was delayed in Munich. Finally we ended up leaving at 12:45am!!!!! We arrived in Malta to see that our car service was still there waiting for us. We headed to our hotel and got checked into our room and all went to bed at 2am!

On Saturday we slept in and I had a massage and pedicure scheduled for later in the day. After that we headed to the pool and then into St. Julians to have dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. Sunday was pretty much spent the same way of pool and food. We had an early flight scheduled for Monday morning so we tried to get to bed early.

We traveled back home on Monday. Our car service was scheduled to pick us up 2 and 1/2 hours before our departure time. Since Chris didn't want to get picked up at 5:30am, he lied and said our flight left at 9am. They were to pick us up at 6:30 am but got their 15 mins late. Then we traveled all over the island to pick up three more people. All the while we kept looking at our watches hoping we would make it to the airport on time. We did make it on time and the flight actually left a little early. When we arrived in Catania we had to wait about 45 mins for our luggage.

After the airport we headed to the store to get food for the week, then home to all take a much needed nap. That evening we enjoyed a barbeque and a game of corn-hole with some friends.