Well It's About Time!

I was off today, my first official day of The Vacation. Tomorrow Jeff and I hop on a plane with the Colemans and fly off to Oahu for a week of sunshine, beaches, hiking, adventuring, snorkeling and cocktailing. Today was spent doing laundry, running errands and getting the house in order to prepare for a week away. As I type this I am enjoying a cocktail and Jeff is in the bedroom with his own cocktail organizing his laundry. It's hard to believe that 24 hours from now it will only be 4:30 at Ko Olina and we'll just be settled into our room and discussing dinner plans! We have an idea of everything we want to do while we are there, but only one thing is set in stone and that is a tee time on Tuesday morning. Other than that we want to hike Diamond Head, check out Lanikai Beach, drive to the North Shore, have cocktails at Duke's in Waikiki, go on the booze cruise and go snorkeling. But, the main plan is to be as lazy as humanly possible. Now that's a vacation! Jeff bought me my Christmas present early, a very nice digital camera. My old one that was 5 years old finally went kaput...it was outdated anyway. I am so excited to take many, many pics and share them with you when we return! On a side note because I know there are family members that check the blog to keep up with happenings on the house, below are pics of our recent project. This week we redid the fireplace:

Before

After

Also, as noted in a previous post I was getting back into my routine of gym and better eating. I lost 6 lbs so far and dropped down a size. I'm feeling much better about rocking a bikini for the week than I did just 6 weeks ago! The real rockstar is Andrea though. She's dropped 16 lbs! Girl goes to bootcamp at 6 am, walks 3 miles with me at lunch during the week and then goes to bootcamp or the gym at night. I lost 6 lbs just from cutting back on calories, going to the gym twice a week and walking at lunch. Andrea is my new hero and we plan on getting some runs and walks in around the resort next week but when we get back I am ready to step it up! Okay friends, I'm ready for a refill and need to start putting everything in my suitcase. Aloha!