It’s that time of year again … my birthday vacation. Each year we make it a point to go away for my birthday. Previous destinations included Prince Edward Island, Florida and my personal favourite Las Vegas. This year is a bit different. I am turning … wait … 40. We figured that we should go someplace special for this big birthday. We thought long and hard and decided on Hawaii.
Where I work, you accumulate vacation days each month. Usually as soon as I have accumulated 5 days, we go somewhere. Once we decided that we wanted to go to Hawaii for 2 weeks, I did some math and realized that if I wanted to spend 2 weeks in Hawaii, I would have to give up a vacation or two before now. Let’s just say that I went through vacation withdrawal.
We spent lots of time surfing the internet and reading guidebooks to come up with a truly special birthday vacation.
Here is our iternary:
Saturday June 3 – fly from Toronto at 11am and landing in Vancouver at 12:57pm. We have a 3-1/2 hour layover before leaving for Honolulu, Oahu. We are scheduled to arrive there at 7:30pm local time. We are staying at the Ilima Hotel.
Wednesday June 7 – fly to the Big Island. We are staying at the Kona Tiki Hotel. This place has no phones and no televisions in the rooms. We’ll see how I do with that.
Saturday June 10 – fly to Maui. We are staying at the Kealia Resort.
Saturday June 17 – fly home. We are very lucky that our flight does not leave until midnight … so we have the entire day on the island. We are stopping once again in Vancouver and should be arriving home at 5:30pm local time.
I decided that I would try something different on this trip. Blogging while on vacation. Usually when I get back from a trip, it takes me quite a long time to get my pictures posted along with the story. I thought why not document the trip as it goes. I hope that you will check back to see what we have been doing in Hawaii.
Aloha.
Hello ladies! It’s just after 6:30 pm on Sunday back here in the “K-Dub”. Just a quick post to which you happy travels!