Stetson and I decided to take a week long vacation to Oahu, Hawaii. He
had never been. I lived in Laie for a few months while attending a
semester at BYU Hawaii and hadn't been back for 5 years. It was the best
25th birthday present I could have hoped for! Between the two of us, we
are taking 30 upper-division credits; you throw in Stetson's full-time
job and one busy 15-month-old into the mix, and, well, we needed a
vacation. We decided to leave Eliza with our moms. I'm so grateful for
their willingness to watch her. It really is invigorating to focus solely
on each other for an entire week. I loved every second, and I kept
trying to take mental pictures of moments I wish I could bottle up and
save forever. We took a million pictures, but they just can't capture the
combination of the sounds of the waves, the smell of the ocean, the warm
sun, the tropical humidity, the relaxed feeling that only comes after a
few days in magical Hawaii... all of it. As amazing as it was, we were
ready to come home by the end of the week to see our sweet Eliza. We
came home feeling rejuvenated and ready to take on the world again.
That's what a vacation's all about in my book! That and making memories,
of course. Oh, and bettering oneself with new experiences, exposing
oneself to new cultures and scenes, doing crazy things you never would
usually do, doing the simple things you love and wish you could do all
the time, and there's more, but I'll stop. I know that was a fragment AND run-on sentence, and I'm not fixing it. I'm so rebellious. If I
was reeeeally rebellious I would have thrown parallel structure out the
window too, but I didn't. Anyway... back to the trip. Here are some
pictures (in random order):
very nice.
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