Last Thursday began my long weekend out of the Willamette Valley... my first in quite a long time, particularly for being the lover of traveling that I am. After cancelling the trip to mexico, we were just going to hang out in northern CA and see some sights. The weather had other plans for us though. Upon arrival to sacramento thursday night we perused the various venues that we were entertaining for our long substitute vacation for los cabos. Napa... wine testing. Yummy, right? Rain. Tahoe... rain and snow. Great America/Six Flags? Rain. Hmmm... problematic. Guess we are going further south? Santa Barbara? Rain and FIRE! Grand Canyon? 12 hour drive and 90 degrees. Las Vegas... maybe.... but that was too many days for us non-gamblers. But all I really want to do is lounge around in the sun and read my book. Hawaii? hmmm.... it takes the same amount of time to get there as Cabo... and the three day hotel and flight package was just a little more than Los Cabos (minus the all inclusive portion... minor detail)... so 9 hours before the flight leaves we book our 3 night trip to hawaii. Crazy? yes. Fun? Even yesser :) 70-82 degrees and sunny. None of this northern california rain crap. I didn't leave Oregon to go to a rainy place on vacation :) I LOOOOOVE being so spontaneous about stuff like this. It makes life so exciting and fun :) I wish life allowed for doing things like this more often!!
this is a picture from the beach right outside our hotel. Needless to say I did not pack a swimming suit for northern california, so that was the first task upon our arrival. After that there was a lot of lounging in the sun, reading, relaxing and general overall happiness. One afternoon we were walking along the beach and I saw 3 boys playing frisbee (only minutes after I said I wanted to play frisbee), so I invited myself to play with them. They were in the navy and stationed on O'ahu. Of course they were. Military boys. Seriously. We played for quite a while and they invited us for a drink. We had a lot of fun ;)
I have to admit, it was a little bit hard to be somewhere where there are so many happy couples around. It makes me miss having "my person", whoever that may end up being. Happy, strolling along life with "my person." In Waikiki :) and lots of lots of other places. That's what I want. Is that too much to ask? ;) Enough about that. The whole trip was wonderful and of course, went far too fast.... but I don't think I have ever really been ready to come home from a trip, even after a month. There's a challenge for myself... travel and stay away long enough that I am homesick and ready to come home. I wonder how long it would take...
The remainder of my pictures are on the kodak gallery, I can send out invitations to view them upon request :)
this is a picture from the beach right outside our hotel. Needless to say I did not pack a swimming suit for northern california, so that was the first task upon our arrival. After that there was a lot of lounging in the sun, reading, relaxing and general overall happiness. One afternoon we were walking along the beach and I saw 3 boys playing frisbee (only minutes after I said I wanted to play frisbee), so I invited myself to play with them. They were in the navy and stationed on O'ahu. Of course they were. Military boys. Seriously. We played for quite a while and they invited us for a drink. We had a lot of fun ;) 
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