Our 10 year anniversary celebration

It is 2:15 on Sunday afternoon. I just finished cleaning Nate’s Mom’s boat and Nate is taking a nap on the bench at the back of the boat.

Occasionally bells and ropes and chains chime as they clang against the masts in the boat harbor. But no sound of children.

We are celebrating our 10 year anniversary. We return home today, but it has been so wonderful. We dropped the girls off at our friends the Skafs then arrived down here in the evening. Nate's mom has generously given us use of her boat for the weekend.

After dropping off our things on the boat we walked along the beach to Tiki’s bar and grill to get a virgin pina colada. Then we came back home and fell asleep.

Saturday morning we stand up paddled against a mighty wind with Waikiki on one side and Diamond Head gracing us on the other. It was a real workout, but as always, a lot of fun. And it was more our style. Just being in the city for one evening was enough to satisfy any need I may have had for the bombardment of humanity. It felt good to be away – just me, my husband, a few canoes, a catamaran, and a few honus.

Afterward we walked to Foodland at Ala Moana and picked up food for lunch and the rest of the weekend. A trek across the street landed us at Magic Island where we had a picnic and watched the surf, then sunbathed and laughed at the funny people around us. Like the woman who (oops!) wore a nude-colored bikini bottom, or the woman sunbathing who was wearing a white mask over her face as though she were a burn victim or the lifeguard that decided to change out of his suit outside his lifeguard tower. We were very tempted to stage a drowning and see what he did. And most of all we just laid there. No “Mommy, I want cheese” or “I’ll go in the water if you go in the water”. Just Nate and I laughing and trying to move as little as possible. I don’t think I’ve been that still during waking hours for over 6 years, so I asked Nate to take a picture. (Don't I look so happy?)

Ahhh, two love birds under a heart shaped cloud! How cute! ;)

That night we went to the Jim Gaffigan performance and laughed til the sides of our mouths hurt.

And as we were both delirious with sleep (so much relaxing in one day is hard work), we crashed after watching a bit of Iron Chef.

Today we slept in til 8:30 (that’s 3 ½ hours later than I usually wake up!!!) , went to church, and now here we are sitting. Or in Nate’s case, sleeping. And nothing else.