Aloha from Hawaii
Aloha Maui.
I returned home with amazing memories of turquoise water and waterfalls …
and dreamy sunsets.
A few souvenirs made their way home too …
found coral collected on beautiful beaches, a carved turtle like the many we saw while snorkeling and an original painting of a scene I saw on my morning walks.
My favorite souvenir …
amazing memories with my family.
Now if only I can find someone to bring me fruity drinks in pineapples here in New Jersey.
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looks so amazing!!! chris and i went before we had kids and i would love to go back.
Pre-kids Hawaii is pretty amazing – post-kids is great too!
So beautiful! We went to the Hawaiian islands for our honeymoon 17 years ago. Now I really want to take my kids! Looks like you had a wonderful time!
Shelley
My hubby and I went 16 years ago – so much fun to bring our girls this time! Hope you get to go back soon.
Welcome back, Kelly! Enjoyed seeing your pics on Instagram. So glad you had a great time.
Blessings!
xo Heidi
Thanks Heidi – now if I can just get myself back in the groove!
Sounds like a beautiful vacation
Love our Jersey Shore but can’t think of any place where they would have fruit drink delivery on the beach
You could go to the Watermark in Asbury Park and have a lovely cocktail overlooking the beach
Savor your vacation memories
I may just have to get myself over to Asbury Park soon – that cocktail is calling my name!
I’ve never been, but it’s definitely on my bucket list…your images are gorgeous!!
It’s definitely a bucket list place!
Oh those photos are gorgeous….love your souvenirs and your “favorite” one!….Such a beautiful picture of you and your family….Glad you had a wonderful trip making beautiful memories!
Thanks Shirley – I’m ready to book my plane ticket back to paradise already!
You have a lovely family so glad you some fun with them. Hawaii is a great place to visit and you brought back some wonder memories. Ralax and have a great week.
Thanks Marlene – hope you’re having a great summer!
Looks like you had a lovely time; I lived in Kaneohe, HI (windward side) for 5 years in the mid-1980s and would have stayed longer if I could have (mostly was too expensive for me at the time to stay any longer). I loved every minute of my life there and would go back to live in a heart-beat. I loved it ALL. I still have some of my trinkets from there (including little Xmas ornaments made with coral pieces and a stunning blown glass tree topper and a pretty little hawaiian hula dancer in bone china).
GADawn57
Lucky you Dawn – and that bone china hula dancer sounds amazing!
It was pretty amazing living there. I visited every island when I was lived there, spending 2-3 days per island. Took me almost 2 years before I left Oahu to see other islands because I was working full time there but oh my, it was worth every single second that I lived there. My first month living there, November 1982, we got hit by Hurricane Iwa and then Kilauea started erupting in January 1983. And I met Tom Selleck while he was filming Magnam PI right around the corner from where I lived when he was filming an episode – I was walking to work and this was on a side street near a local mall, which I used to ‘cut through’ to walk from my apartment to mall – they were on a break from filming and he was gracious and let me take pictures! What great memories (and photo albums) I have of my life there!
Magnam PI – now that would be my favorite souvenir!
Looks amazing! What a great trip!
Thanks Ashley – it was fun!
What a beautiful place.
This is a heaven on earth, I just hope to be there one day.