Holiday to Hawaii in Nov 2026: Day 1 – Home to London Heathrow

Today was one of those days which I really don’t like. It was a day when we were hanging around waiting for the right time to leave to go to the airport.

I much preferred getting on the road as soon as I could in the morning. There was never any point in hanging around, unless there was a point…

Today the point was that we had a very important person arriving. So very important that we were going to share an Indian mean with her before we jumped in the car to head to the airport.

Julie was our cat sitter for the next few weeks. She would be tasked with keeping our moggies out of trouble and well fed. The latter was likely to be a challenge, since the time between feeds had now turned into an opportunity to queue for the next meal. The only time in the day when our cats were NOT thinking about food was overnight when they were catching up on some zeds.

The early part of the day was spent packing and last minute prep to make the house liveable in for Julie.

Julie arrived at around 3pm and the next 3 hours were spent introducing her to the cat feeding process, all of the gadgets around the house and making sure she had access to all of the apps she needed!

We enjoyed a tasty Waitrose curry with Julie, we said our goodbyes and then we hit the road and headed to the Hilton at T5, where Bobby Tesla 2 would enjoy a break from us.

The drive was horrible: dark, wet and windy. But we got there in one piece. The Sat Nav took us on a very bizarre route to get from the M4 to the hotel.

By the time we reached our room, we just had enough time to grab a beer from the bar downstairs, before Bake Off started on C4.

After watching Nigella slurp up more cake than she needed for tasting, we needed our bed.