Decisions.......

I really hate that it has taken me this long to get our pics together. But like I said we had over 800 pics from our trip, so I had a lot to go through. However Joe was right on top of things this time and started before I even thought of it. He found this really cool website SmugMug, it's free for like two weeks and then it cost something, can't remember. Anyways I am really liking it. After looking at our pics, if you decide you want to join, be sure to signup through our link above, or right here and you will save $5.00. He put almost all our pics on there and even sorted them by each day that we were there. I was just going to post a link to our page there, but then I thought well some of you might not want to look at that many pics of our trip. I know there's a few people like my mom and dad and some other family who will look at all of them. This is the link for our albums at SmugMug.But for those of you who don't have that much time on your hands or just have no interest in looking at that many pics here's my montage.......

Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Oh and also SmugMug has this really cool thing with Google maps, you'll find it on the bottom of our page. You can click on the little bubble guy icons and it'll show you a pic that we took at that particular place on the island. You can do this for any where in the world, too. Even if you don't want to look at all our pics just check out that cool little feature.
Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day weekend.......

Yes, We are back...

We are back we got in, in the late afternoon on Saturday. Rested most of Sunday and then back to work on Monday for both Joe and I. I hated going back to work especially after 10 days of no work. I am settling in, getting back into the grove of weird and crazy customers.

I am also working on putting something together for our pics from the trip to share with everyone. However, after taking a closer look this p.m. when I got home from work I realized that we took over 800 pictures. Yes I know, that's a lot for only technically five days. I couldn't believe it when I looked at all the files counted together, that's just crazy to me. So as soon as I get it all together I will share and I promise it will NOT be all 800+ pics. Until then...........

Sunrise on the way to our North Shore boat trip on 5/13

And we made it.....Finally

We are here and having a fabulous time, so much so that this is really the first time I've been on the laptop since we got here. We got in on Sunday at about five minutes til midnight. By the time we got our bags, and got our rental car we arrived at the resort just after 1:00 a.m. In bed by 2:00a.m and up at 5:45am for our first adventure. We have had two early mornings since we got here for planned activities and we all know that I'm not very good with early mornings. But getting up early has proven to be worth it. I can not wait to post some of our pics from our adventures thus far and plan to soon.

For the record I don't think our kids miss us, like we miss them. Today (Tuesday) Joe called to talk to them and Jenna refused, she was more interested in watching another little girl. Jacob on the other hand did say "Hi Dada!" and then was back to learning how to do Karate of some sort at our mall. So not really missing us. Which I guess I am actually okay with because I don't want them to missing us so horribly that they're not listening to Nana.

Hope that everyone is having a wonderful week, thus far and I will be back soon hopefully with pics in my next post. Also this post is actually being done at 9:00p.m. Hawaii time, not the 3:00a.m that it says : )

*Just tried to upload a pic, and I believe Blogger is having issues*

Aloha...... from Phoenix

Yes you read that right, from Phoenix. So it is 3:15pm Phoenix time and 12:15pm in Hawaii and we should be landing in about 2 hours. We took off from Phoenix on time, and about 15 minutes into our flight, the pilot noticed a problem.. one of the flaps was not fully retracted. After doing a safety check of the plane, they discovered that this was indeed a problem. At this point we were told we would have to turn around and go back to Phoenix but before doing so we would have to burn some fuel. As we had enough fuel for a six hour flight, we could not land with this much fuel/weight. So we circled the Phoenix area for at least THREE hours. The fuel burning process does not normally take this long but with the problem we had, we could not fly any higher or faster. In order to speed up the burning process, the pilot had lowered the landing gear, raised the spoilers, and extended the flaps (as much as possible) to increase drag. Now, for those of you that have flown before, you know how noisy it gets right before you land??? Imagine that for 3 hours!! Oh, and when we landed, we were escorted by the fire department (as a precautionary measure), said the pilot!

Here we are now back in good ol' Phoenix, just waiting for a new plane. They cannot fix this plane and this one is now going to the hanger. Our new plane is coming from Cancun, Mexico and should be arriving at 6:30pm. After those passengers de-plane we will be able to board at around 8:00pm. Which means after our six hour flight, we will be landing in Lihue, Hawaii around midnight. This will be 6:00am our time and Joe and I will have been traveling with little sleep for more than 24hours. We got up this a.m. at 2:45 to leave for Baltimore. All in all this has been a fun day. At least we're on vacation right? Oh well.. fun times are really ahead now if we could just get to our final destination.

This is a golf course we flew over at least 10 times......

* For the record I am already really missing my babies*