whooee back from hawaii! incredible vacation =) now if only my entire summer could be like that...

in any case, we had a sweet condo for the five nights we were in waikiki--just across the street from waikiki beach with a partial ocean view and the balcony was right over the hotel's pool (perfect for yelling at brandon to get back upstairs after he splashed around enough to look like a raisin ;-). we did the tourist-y thing and went to hanauma bay, a luau, and goofed off at the beach across the street. doesn't that sound so awesome? a beach across the street...

i have decided that my future honeymoon must be on a tropical island at a full-service resort. paris or london or whatever is all well and good, but nothing fits my ideal of a perfect vacation more than sand, sun, and ocean.

sorry, digression. anyway, saw plenty of fine male specimens. yuuum. surfers are so cute. and their rock-hard abs and nice pecs didn't hurt my eyes much either. i so needed that hit of eye candy.

you know, the last night we were there, a couple of nice locals showed amanda and me around...our closest encounter with waikiki nightlife. thanks to gregg and john. gregg had the cutest smile--for an old guy ;-) and john played the ukelele for us! we can now say we have been serenaded by a hawaiian playing the ukelele.

we all played a lot of pool too. i still suck. but my mom sucks more. ;-) i have to say that the best part of hawaii was just spending stress-less time with my family...i barely see them these days since i'm working all the time! my mom's so amusing, brandon's hilarious, and amanda--well, she's getting predictable =D no wait, she's just an ugly alien monkey. kidding! don't kill me, amanda! i love my family. =)