Hawaii, Halloween, and How come I can't get my "blogging legs" back.

The nerd who writes this blog (pictured below) has caught some form of the "brain vacations" recently. Unable to think in coherent sentences, let alone perform rather mundane tasks that real life requires, she has succumbed to this disease while away on a trip recently. Please bear with her.




Funny story: I happened to go to Hawaii formyever ago (like over two weeks ago) and still haven't uploaded and posted proper documentation of such an event. Until now.

Aaaaah,...........Maui, Hawaii. A place of beauty. Where you can stop and literally smell the flowers; enjoy the scenery. To quote Vince Vaughn in the trailer to the movie "Couples Retreat"----"it's like a screen saver".

A place where you can, quite literally, kick up your feet poolside. Very UNmanicured feet, but relaxed feet nonetheless.
A place where you can walk along the beach at sunset.
A place where you can enjoy a dinner of crab won tons in sweet chili dipping sauce with friends from Bake-town.
WHOA! Wait! Wha? Yes, thanks to modern conveniences such as iPhones and BooksWithFaces (aka FaceBook), it turns out our good friends the Forsyths were vacations sans-kids just a couple of resorts down the way. Whoodathunk?

Maui also boasts tourist rentals of various shapes, sizes, and speeds. We picked the smallest of all those choices and sped off in little 50 mopeds. You know....scooters!!

Notice my iPhone in my hand as I stopped to take a picture and text it to Jespy and Landee in Nevada who were, at the time, playing Bananagrams at a dining room table. It's like we were experiencing it together. But not really even close.
Yeeeah, there isn't really a way to look "cool" while riding a moped. What with the helmet and pageant wave and all.
Doods definitely do it better. The "looking cool in a helmet" part anyway. This particular shot was texting to Shed's business partners while they were busy having appointments and filling out paperwork and stuff.
At first those drop offs really scared me. I could only pull 25mph with poor Shed smoking me on every turn. But once I got the hang of it I left him in the dust.
Again, I'm not sure there is a "flattering" way for ones behind to be photographed from the back of a scooter. But I digress.
I really think I finally pulled off the "I'm comfortable with these heights and no I won't take off my helmet due to the helmet hair underneath and can you please hurry and take this pic my abs are burning look" here. Don't you?

Don't answer that.
The really cool thing about mopeds is you never have to worry about finding a place to park or having room to pull your car up to some really awesome greenery sites.

But other days, we went full force and rented an actual CAR. Drove right past all the resorts and beaches and farmland to the top of a dormant volcano. This picture below is only about half way up. I think it's 10,000 ft or so. Shed would spout off all the details to you but I can only describe it as....well.....really HIGH.
Speaking of "high" how is it that little children can so often look doped up in pictures? Either from showing no lack of self-confidence or social inhibitions or from sheer pleasure/delight at being able to FINALLY wear that costume and makeup....no one can say for sure. It's uncanny really.
But back to those heights. Another really cool thing to do in Hawaii is get up on TOP of the clouds and then pretend to jump off suey-style. But I'm too composed to do such a thing really.
Shed on the other hand, bless his heart. (no one was hurt in the taking of these pictures....unless you count the dozen or so other tourists laughing their behinds off at our antics....that can hurt the abs sometimes)
Ah. Shadow shots. That there is the center of the crater-volcano-thingy. I DID actually graduate from college. But geography wasn't one of my best subjects.
It's really weird feeling like you are kinda sorta flying way up there above the clouds. Weird and cold. Very, very cold. You'd think someone would have told you to pack parkas when visiting Hawaii right? Geez.
Speaking of parkas. Just kidding. I just wanted to show you the only significant piece of food our garden produced this fall. Sure, in the summer we had tomatoes and bell peppers...even some basil and stuff. But our poor little punkin plants only could squeeze out this little peanut. ::sigh::
Speaking of little peanuts. Someone take me to a place where this picture doesn't hurt so much. He honest to goodness sat still as a statue while I took 10 minutes to color his face like that, while simultaneously looking at the picture of the computer of how to draw such a face. By the way, his costume is pronounced "skeyeeton". And no one can change my mind about that.
Speaking of fat tourists. My good friend lent me a couple of costumes in honor of our trip to Hawaii. What are you trying to say? But luckily my boys thought they were the coolest thing since fruit by the foot. And I mean that quite literally, they think fruit by the foot is manna from heaven.
It's unusual to see "saddlebags" that low on a person, let alone a male person. But I really think they pulled it off.
Speaking of pulling it off.........check out our timing on the top of that volcano in Maui.
::Pause for deep breath and large sigh from blog author::
You gize can join in too. Don't feel like I'm the only one who gets to sigh long and deep at the beauty of such a place. You go right ahead. Really. Right now go ahead.
Cuz you'll need that oxygen when you see these three hooligans.

I hope they didn't take my laughing as insulting. It's good to know that they don't feel any sort of pressure or expectations from me to be a certain something. Besides, this will give them some conversation starters for their therapist later on in life.

Signed,
Therapy Inducer Brain Missing Blogger