Browner and Back to Real Life.

Just spent a week in gorgeous Kauai.  I already miss the perfect temperatures and the sea breeze against my skin.  Glorious glorious brown brown skin.  I couldn't help but lay on the beaches and bake my skin as brown as possible.  I know, I know ... Not the healthiest thing to do but I honestly do love being tanned!  I shamelessly used to fake and bake for performances (my poor paler teammates had to try and fake and bake or even spray tan even more just to catch up).  In Kauai, it didn't help that there were so many beautiful shades of beautiful brown skin around me.  Hawaiian folks are soooo damn lovely!

It was so easy to get used to living in shorts and tank tops and sandals and NEVER ever even think about sweaters and jackets and pants.  In a perfect world I would live by the beach with Hawaiian temperatures and wake up and fall asleep to ocean sounds.  There is really nothing quite like it.  

When the waves were huge and crashing crazily against the rocks, I thought to myself:

"NATURE IS THE BOSS OF ME."

I felt like a speck by the enormous sea.  Combined with the extra backdrop of super starry sky, one feels extremely tiny and in awe of everything at the same time.    

And can I gush about the lush sceneries?  

How much more breathtaking can you get? 

It's tough to be back in dry Alberta, but I am looking forward to picking up the little munchkin from daycare tomorrow.  The doggie daycare posted a pic of him on Instagram and it almost looks like Hachi is sad and missing us and the little guy on the right is comforting him.  

Awwww.

Mind Farts

-I send mental bad karma to the idiot that previously sat in my seat on the plane and left his/her chewing gum on the seat which then got all over my clothes: I wish you food poisoning and a year of bad dates.  Grrr!

-Had my first taste of soursop in Kauai. Yum!  Quite a strong taste though - I find I can only take a bit at a time.  Not like mangoes or papayas, which I can annihilate quite easily.  And the hard shelled avocados were amazing!  Hard to believe they were ripe because they were so hard but sure enough the lady at the farmer's market wasn't lying - they were ready to eat :)

-Pretty interesting how the Filipino community has thrived in Hawaii.  My parents still got to eat Filipino dishes and chat in Tagalog/Bisaya with the locals during our trip.  A lot of Illocano folks in Kauai!  A trip to the Kauai museum revealed that back in the early 1900's, Illocanos were encouraged to come to Hawaii because they were thought to be hard workers.