Get caught up here:
Post 1 – Friday night
Post 2 – Saturday
Post 3 – Saturday
Post 4 – Sunday
Now, this is REALLY how we spent our first anniversary :). Ok so the other was what we did too, but still!
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| So we had to meet the Trolly to be picked up by the statue of Duke Kahanamoku, The Father of Surfing |
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I didn’t want to be traveling on our anniversary! That was one request I made.
Oh and trust me, your time will be so screwed up! I woke up all but 1 morning at 3 am which was 8 am at home. I’d have to convince myself to go back to sleep until about 6-6:30 am HI time which was 11-11:30 am MO time. And we wouldn’t go to bed until around 10 pm-12 am HI time which is 3-5 am MO time. Oh well, it was like college all over again, going to bed late, getting up early. ha!
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| When I got up at 6:25ish this was the sight I saw out my balcony. I was in love. |
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| Hubby and I went with band back in high school to Florida, but he had a cut on his foot and was scared to get in the saltwater with the open cut so this was his actual first time ever in an ocean! I was so excited I got to be there with him! |
Catch up here if you missed the first post.
We picked my grandma up around 6:15 and headed for the airport.
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| Hubby, me & Grandma waiting to board the plane at the airport. |
So first off, I must tell you this because to me it is funny… I actually had people saying to me…. me of all people… don’t forget to take pictures. Um… if you’ve followed my blog any at all, you’ll notice, I LOVE photos :). Ok, just sayin :).
So to start things off we went and stayed at my parent’s house Friday night, September the 2nd so we could just leave from there. It was my mom, dad, grandma, hubs, and me going to Hawaii.
Some background details: Back in January my mom was talking to me one morning and this is the way the story goes:
Mom: So your grandma wanted to go to Hawaii. Apparently your grandpa wouldn’t take her because he was stationed there back during WWII and never felt he needed to go back. She’s been asking everyone in the family to go with her. Your Aunt Ellen (actually Great Aunt Ellen) said she’d go with her so then Floyd (AE’s boyfriend) said he’d take her (as in AE) so your grandma backed out not wanting to be a 3rd wheel. So then AE & Floyd backed out. So your grandma has been asking other people to take her. When your dad found out, he volunteered us to take her so I guess this summer your dad and I are taking your grandma to Hawaii.
Me: Well you know, PC and I are going on our 1-year anniversary this year and we’ve been contemplating where to go. I’ll bet it wouldn’t take much convincing and he’d be willing to go, but only if you guys could wait until our 1-year anniversary since that’s when we’re saving our vacation for……
So needless to say, they agreed, we sat on this all winter and summer long, waiting for September 3rd to come around! And then…………..
WE WENT TO HAWAII!!!!!
We went to the Island of Oahu and stayed right on Waikiki beach, but I won’t jump the gun just yet… back to Friday night the 2nd.
Since our Anniversary was actually Sunday the 4th, we really couldn’t take the cake with us to Hawaii…. so we cut into our wedding cake top on Friday night.
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Think that annoying Stew commercial on TBS 🙂 (if you don’t know what I’m talking about, youtube it, I’m sure it’s out there!)
So did you miss me? Oh you didn’t know I was missing, other than I hadn’t been by to comment on your blogs…. Well, that’s because I pre-scheduled posts for all last week while I was on vacation.
For multiple reasons I was asked not to announce it on my blog until after I got back, so I did as I was asked. Don’t worry I’ll get caught up on all your blogs, I promise, it just might take me a bit. I have to get caught up on lots of things.
So I have 2,500ish photos from this trip, don’t worry I won’t share them all with you, however I’ll go through and share some of the highlights as I get through them myself 🙂 What’s really funny is my digital photo frame at work has just over 2000 photos and I told one of my co-workers I’d probably come back with every bit of that and I guess I didn’t disappoint. I took 3 camera’s, my Nikon D5000 with a 32gb memory card, my Kodak water camera with a 16gb memory card and my Nikon Coolpix with a 2gb memory card plus I had my iPhone, hubby’s iPhone and even my mom’s iPhone which I used all of the above at one point or another. I know, I guess I need a life maybe ;).
Anyway it’s Monday so I wanted to participate in the Hunk of Meat Monday so here’s my recipe. Mom made it a week ago Friday and that’s what we had before we left for Hawaii (if you didn’t get it by my sweatshirt)
You had to go back and look at the sweatshirt didn’t cha?
So on with Hunk of Meat Monday brought to you by Beyer Beware:
Crock-Pot Spare Ribs
Ingredients:
Boneless Beef ribs covered in Chili Lime Rub (all sides). Place in the crockpot. Then cover in enough beef broth to just cover (about 3/4-1cup). She also added some Rotel and mushrooms (both optional). Let it simmer all day on low. Then pull the meat out after 6-8 hrs and let the meat rest. In the mean time thicken up the sauce with some cornstarch to make a gravy. Then mom made mashed potatoes. So to serve, place a couple slices of bread on a plate. Shred the meat and place on the bread. Then serve with potatoes and cover all with gravy. Can we say YUM!!??!!??
