Category Archives: Vacation

Vacation

End of a vacation

Vacations, no matter how many weeks you take off, are always too short. Maybe a week is way too short, but that’s what we had, and if feels like we hardly got to do any relaxing. That’s really not true, since we decided to “staycation” and had at least two or three days set aside for simply hanging out. Anyway, this week off literally began with my birthday. Yes, it was my birthday. And I’m not afraid to tell the world I turned 33.

I began my celebratory week a day early, taking the day off so I could hang out by myself (Mikey went to daycare), and have lunch with my friend Iliki. We had a lovely lunch at Black Angus in Burbank, and of course, she told the wait staff it was my birthday, so I got the obligatory song and massive cookie topped with vanilla ice cream. It was quite yummy.

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I went on vacation?

Just two weeks have passed since I was in the Big Island of Hawaii, but with all that’s happened, I feel as if I didn’t even go. Almost immediately after returning from vacation, my husband and I took about a day to recover from jet lag, then packed up our entire home to move from one condo to another about 5, 10 minutes away. Even though it was a small move, man, it was tiring.

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However, it did turn out to be more relaxing than even Trinity anticipated — mostly because I was barred from going to Volcanoes National Park (it was vetoed by both Trinity and my sisters) and also because I didn’t have as much energy to do as much as I would have liked.

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Cruising the Venice of America

Venice of America

Our trip to Fort Lauderdale last weekend was short — four days, three nights — plus we were already committed to a wedding on Saturday, and we wanted to hang out with our friends who got married on Sunday, so that only left Monday for tourist-y type activities.

I’d already done my homework on this and knew that I wanted to do this. I also mentioned it to Trin way before we left for Florida. So yeah — we went. We took the Carrie B cruise, which was about $16 per person. For an hour and a half-long cruise, it was not bad at all.

Anyway, I took a bunch of pictures, like I usually do. Check em out on Flickr.