We have old people jet-lag! I don’t recommend a red-eye flight if you’re over 40 and just spent a week manically running all over the tropical paradise known as Oahu! As I sit here typing my eyes feel heavy and like I could sleep for 24 more hours and thats after getting a full night’s sleep last night! Our flight coming home was well over an hour late, which had us waiting in the Hawaii airport for three hours before boarding the night flight home.

Kevin and I decided this was a good thing, since it was painful tearing ourselves away from the Island to head home. We have always felt by the end of a vacation it was time to come home. Not this time!

The four Hawaii bloggers we met up with for dinner last Friday helped make our stay on Oahu extra special. I would have liked an extra week just getting to know Ma, Kamalani, Bitchatude and DB better!

Ma, I especially would have liked more time with you dear lady! I know you had family functions on Saturday, and Kevin had our itinerary booked up the rest of the week. I comfort myself knowing that I’ll get to spend some time with you here in Phoenix in early August! We thought of you often after our dinner together! As late as this morning, when Kevin brewed up that delicious coffee you sent back with us. As well as the cookies that he broke open last night, right before we collapsed in exhaustion! Thank you for the goodies you sent home with us Ma! You made us feel welcome and gave a dimension of warmth to this vacation that playing sightseeing tourists is not usually known for. We are glad you were able to bring Kamalni along for dinner as well. She is such a beautiful little girl, and I was amazed at what a lady she was at dinner! She is a special little girl, so well behaved and intellegent. Give her a big sqeezy hug from Aunty 3T for me!

Getting lei’ed by Bitchatude and DB was another high point of our vacation! I think that had we been lei’ed by strangers it wouldn’t have been nearly so special for us. It was perfect and beautiful and we hope it was good for the two of you too! Those were THE most gorgeous lei’s I’ve seen, and over the course of the week, we saw hundreds! Thank you for adding that special touch to the experience. Although it wasn’t the first time we had been lei’ed, it was by far the best!

Saturday’s tour around the Island was also a highpoint. Thank you for showing us some of the most beautiful areas on Oahu! I know after this last hectic semester, the two of you had to be completely exhausted, and I appreciate the sacrifice you made to show us all around. I hope that the two of you will make it out to the desert soon, so we can play host to you as well. I promise we don’t get lost here, like we did there!

While I recuperate from jet-lag the rest of this weekend, here are a few photos from our Hawaii blogger get-together! More to come, when this sleepy exhaustion lets up! I’m off to take yet another nap now.

Love,

3T