Hawaii Vacation

You might have noticed I have not posted in the last few days.  That’s because I have been on vacation in Hawaii.  Hawaii is so beautiful.  It was one of those things where people kept telling me how beautiful it was.  I didn’t want to get sucked in to they hype, fearing that the scenery would not match the impossibly high expectations.  I would say it surpassed expectations.

Things that have been interesting include:

• Much of the fish we have eaten doesn’t really taste like fish.  More like chicken.
• Hawaii doesn’t observe daylight savings.  So it is now 5 hours ahead in the central time zone.
• I don’t know how you are expected to concentrate on anything here.  When I was playing golf, there were so many distractions.  The whales jumping in the background, the beautiful sunsets and rainbows, and of course the weather.  It was sensory overload.
• The plane ride is really, really long.
• Everything is more expensive.  $6 for a gallon of milk.
• It’s nice to move at a slower pace.  We look to do about one thing a day.  Yesterday, that one thing was nothing more than go out for dinner.  The rest of the day we just hung out at the pool.
• There is an art to cutting a pineapple.

Here are a few of my favorite pics so far: