A week in Paradise

Just landed on Maui

Sorry I'm a little behind on posting about my vacation in paradise.  Ricky's parents wanted to take a family vacation before he leaves for deployment and they asked me to come along.  This was like back in October that they asked me, but wouldn't tell us where we were going, only that it was somewhere tropical.  His mom wanted to wait until Christmas (we were leaving NYE) to tell us our fabulous destination.  But about two weeks before Christmas she let it slip lol.  We were headed to HAWAII!

Cabana for the day :)

Ricky with the Arizona memorial in the background

We left out NYE at 8 in the morning from Tulsa and were supposed to land on Maui at 4:00 but due to flight problems we didn't land until 8:00...meaning we didn't get to the hotel till about 11 (this was 3:00 oklahoma time) so Ricky and I grudging stayed up until midnight at least to celebrate then crashed for the night.  I won't give you a play by play for the rest of the week, but it involved a lot of sun, fun, and relaxation.

Celebrating our 10 month anniversary

A couple touristy things we did were visit Pearl Harbor and a luau.  Pearl Harbor is just as amazing in person as you can imagine and I really enjoyed spending the day on Oahu.  After a week of vacation we headed back to the real world...sadly.

View from our room