Maui

The other day I put in the Hawaii CD that we made of all the songs we heard on the radio in Maui and it made me smile and made me just ache to go back. That's the problem with these kinds of trips is that you know just how long it will be before you actually get to go back. I ache to live that lifestyle. The air dried beach nasty hair, no shoes, no schedule, the sun, the waves, endless time with Tj, no make up and simple thrown on clothes. 

I am so glad we were in invited on this anniversary trip with Rob and Becky. That they wanted to share this awesome trip with us. The best thing about these kids is that they are so easy going. Very laid back, down to earth and relaxed about pretty much everything. Rob is like a little kid in an adults body and and is easy to talk to and is always making us laugh. Becky is ridiculously sweet and awesome and we share so many things in common and I feel like I can really be myself around her. She is so low maintenance which is so nice to vacation with someone like that. We didn't care we had nasty, non brushed/washed salty hair. Or that we didn't shower and maybe wore the same clothes as the day before. I really hope they had an awesome getaway and that they really loved it like we did. The trip starting out wasn't awesome only because our flight out kept getting delayed and so we showed up 5 hours later than expected. But the rest was great. We hit up every beach (not really) but we found all the great ones and went to multiples each day to soak up the rays and play in the waves. This trip was great and different for me because this was the first Hawaii trip that I have ever spent so much time at the beach. Tj is not a lay out kind of guy but I can really be that beach bum. We had many great walks (including one to Little Beach which is a nudest beach). I played more in the water than I usually do thanks to the water being nice and not too cold. We took a boat trip to do some snorkeling. I wish that was my favorite thing but I just get sick. It must be a combo of the cold water and pressure from the mask on my face, breathing out of the tube and the rolling waves that does it to me. So after like 10 min I'm done and ready to get out. It was cool tho that in that 10 min I saw a turtle and a huge stingray. We did a bunch of shopping and a hike to a waterfall and some jumping off it too. TJ is the dare devil and me not so much but I did jump off a baby fall TWICE so beat that. We watched the sunset every night at the beach, hit up the hot tub at the condo later at night. We drove the road to Hana which is crazy but oh so worth it. We hiked to 7 pools (I think is the name), ate coconut candy, coconut PB, and coconut shrimp. I'm really obsessed with coconut! One of my favorite things was being outside in the morning running and being the crazy yoga Pilate's ladies on the beach. For me, a vacation is a vacation if I can get out and do what I love and workout and run and feel good. People always give me a hard time about working out on vacation but for me I guess its not really a workout. Its my time to get away and have time to myself. And it is so fun to run somewhere new. This trip was so amazing and sharing it with such great friends really just made the trip what it was.