Back from Vacation
Joe, Julie and I arrived home safely yesterday afternoon from our vacation in Hawaii. I wanted to post about it before we left, but thought better of broadcasting to the world that our house would be empty for a week. We did have someone check on the cats, and we do have an alarm, but Joe has a lot of nice toys and I have a priceless stash of yarn.
So anyway, back in January we decided to go on a vacation before we start planning a second kid. At first, it was going to be on the cheap - we were talking Florida or perhaps Mexico. We just wanted to get away for a few days to somewhere warm with a beach. But then someone mentioned that you really can't be sure about the weather in March even at the tip of Florida...and we started worrying about taking Julie out of the country...and then we started worrying about running into wild and crazy spring-breakers...and somehow we convinced ourselves that Hawaii was worth the extra cost and travel time. So we booked a vacation to Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii (neighborhood, city, island, state).
I spent weeks worrying about packing. I had to buy a whole new wardrobe for Julie, who had outgrown her summer things from last year. Thank goodness I found a whole pile of things at Once Upon a Child. There were about a million other things to shop and plan for. Toys and books for the plane, snacks galore for Julie, disposable diapers, a new suitcase! When it came down to it, we had to take even one more bag than I planned on and even then all our junk barely fit. Joe's parents drove us to the airport and when his mom saw all of our stuff, she thought maybe we were really going for two weeks instead of one. I thought I had overpacked somehow despite all my calculations. Turns out I did just about right, and in the end after using up food and diapers we had just enough room in our bags for all the souvenirs we brought back.
So, while Julie is napping and the 8 loads of laundry are running, I'm going to ignore the piles of mess around the house long enough to record more details about our trip than anyonew will probably ever want to know...stay tuned.
So anyway, back in January we decided to go on a vacation before we start planning a second kid. At first, it was going to be on the cheap - we were talking Florida or perhaps Mexico. We just wanted to get away for a few days to somewhere warm with a beach. But then someone mentioned that you really can't be sure about the weather in March even at the tip of Florida...and we started worrying about taking Julie out of the country...and then we started worrying about running into wild and crazy spring-breakers...and somehow we convinced ourselves that Hawaii was worth the extra cost and travel time. So we booked a vacation to Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii (neighborhood, city, island, state).
I spent weeks worrying about packing. I had to buy a whole new wardrobe for Julie, who had outgrown her summer things from last year. Thank goodness I found a whole pile of things at Once Upon a Child. There were about a million other things to shop and plan for. Toys and books for the plane, snacks galore for Julie, disposable diapers, a new suitcase! When it came down to it, we had to take even one more bag than I planned on and even then all our junk barely fit. Joe's parents drove us to the airport and when his mom saw all of our stuff, she thought maybe we were really going for two weeks instead of one. I thought I had overpacked somehow despite all my calculations. Turns out I did just about right, and in the end after using up food and diapers we had just enough room in our bags for all the souvenirs we brought back.
So, while Julie is napping and the 8 loads of laundry are running, I'm going to ignore the piles of mess around the house long enough to record more details about our trip than anyonew will probably ever want to know...stay tuned.
posted by Shelly Kang at 11:59 AM
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