Aloha ladies and gentlemen! I guess I need to tell you about the major thing that has happened since I posted last... Hawaii!
That's right I got to go to Hawaii for the first time and it was amazing. It was a family vacation and it was so much fun. We stayed right on Waikiki beach, the views are amazing just about wherever you are on the island though. We spent a lot of time on the beach doing a whole lot of nothing, so that was perfect. I needed some time to get away from the internet and phones and all that stuff to just lie on the beach and lather on the SPF 50... that's how I roll! I also got to try surfing for the first time and I really enjoyed it. It was hard to stand up at first but it is a lot like snowboarding in the sense that once you figure out where your balance point is, it's actually not too hard. Of course I wasn't riding any waves that curled over my head or anything but none the less it was a blast.
Oh yeah, AND I got a tattoo! Me and my sister have been wanting to get tattoos for a while now and since we were both gonna be in the same place at the same time for a week we figured what better place than to do it in Hawaii. So she put me to the task to come up with a tattoo idea. After throwing around some ideas and several pages of paper I came up with a design that intertwines our two astrological symbols (aries and libra). When we took the design to the tattoo artist she was able to make two versions of it so Carolyn could have a design that was more feminine and mine is big and manly. So it's the same design just altered for each of us.
It was a great trip and now I guess I'm getting "dragged" into a vegas trip. Hopefully this one will include both my best friends from Dallas and Albuquerque and should be fun. It hopefully turns out something like The Hangover, because that is an instant classic and will go down as one of my favorite movies of all time. It is pure greatness and if you haven't seen it yet you must.
And like The Hangover, I will end this post with a bunch of pictures... Enjoy!
Snorkel!
Carolyn's tattoo
My tattoo
Surfin' USA
USS Arizona Memorial
Byodo Temple
View of Waikiki Beach from Diamond Head
Some lighthouse... I guess this one didn't need a caption... oh well
Kick off your shoes and relax your feet
Sunset from Waikiki
Hmmmm...
Yeah... that's how cool I am!
We're on a boat!
Hand carved Tiki and the guy who made it.
Banyan tree... the branches reach down to the ground and become roots again
Waikiki from the plane
Hanuama bay, where we went snorkeling
Good bye paradise. I'll be back.
