Someone send me back…

We’re home. We’ve been back home since Monday. I’m not saying I am happy about it other than the fact that I couldn’t wait to get my lips on my sweet babie’s cheeks. I snuggled them until they started a “No more snuggles” protest. Signs and all! *just kidding.

Hawaii is paradise. I felt my spirits lift every morning to the warmth of the sun and the sound of the tropical birds singing me songs. I’m convinced they were singing to me. I’ve kinda always had a “Snow White” kinda relationship with animals. We planted ourselves in the white sand and dipped our toes and bodies in the 80 degree ocean. It was pure bliss.

Ok. Not every moment was bliss. We did survive a stinking TSUNAMI!!!! Day one. We are there. Jessica is very pregnant and without Chad. He is stranded in Oakland California waiting for a standby spot on the next plane. This didn’t go so well. (Never fly standby unless you actually like spending ridiculous amounts of time in airports and NOT in sunny destinations). Jess was emotional to begin with. She missed her hubby and she’s been up way to long.

We survive our first day of gorgeous sunshine and island music. We have a lovely dinner and a *few Mai Tai’s. We skip happily back to our hotel and get ready to call it a night when suddenly the island music stops and Fox News takes over.

Tsunami watch for Hawaiian Islands.

WHHHHHAAAAAA!?

An hour later….

Tsunami Warning for Hawiian Islands.

FREAKING OUT.

Another 20 mins later…

A Tsunami WILL hit the Islands of Hawaii.

Saying my prayers and calling my loved ones!

We were completely frantic with the sounds of very loud and very creepy sirens sounding off all throughout Maui. We didn’t even grab our luggage, we just headed up to higher ground as directed. We waited at an Elementary School without food, water, blankets or BATHROOMS for about 8 ish hours. I imagine you catch the drift…. paradise had turned into a little taste of heck.

And thank you At&T for having ZERO service during this fiasco. I didn’t want to keep family and friends posted anyway.

Well, we made it back to our hotel exhausted (is there a word that’s even worse than this, cause that’s what we were) and we slept half of our second precious day away. We only had 4 nights I might add.

Finally that morning Chad and his goofy grin came walking through the front door of the hotel. Jessica was thrilled, we now had a rental car, the tsunami didn’t kill us and it was time to start enjoying our vacation!

As soon as I walked outside into the sunshine that whole nightmare faded fast. We definitely enjoyed the rest of our trip complete with floating in the ocean (with a hippo floaty) LOTS of beaches and laying out, lots of good food, and a Luau to end the trip. I’m already panning my next escape only this time my two little girls are joining us. I don’t think I can go through that feeling of separation again!

Sorry this is a bit “in a nut shell” I’m currently rocking a robe, two blankets, mass amounts of sweat, a fever and a horrible cold. My windows are closed because I don’t think I can bare the sight of gray skies and rain right now… being this sick is depressing enough. Thankfully Co and Isla are actually PLAYING together It’s pretty cute. I wish I could hear them and talk to them though. Ears are plugged and my voice is gone.

Praying for sunshine and health…. and another trip (or permanent move) to Hawaii :-)

Blessings,

Kesha.

I am working on the pics. Those will come in the next day or so! Also you can skip over to Jessica’s blog to read her rendition of our trip and see a bunch of pictures (thanks Jess!)

Ps. Please excuse any spelling errors or punctuation. I’m not in the proof reading mood…