Paradise

I knew I should've blogged this all right away, because it's official the vacation high is over. It doesn't take long when you come back to snow, cold and just regular ol life. But, that being said I knew it wouldn't last forever. Anyways we had a week away just the 2 of us in Maui. Honestly it was fabulous. It was perfect in every way. So great to sneak away and just enjoy being in such a hot, sunny & beautiful place with just us. I don't know what anyone else's idea of paradise would be, but this did it for me. It was amazing. We did many of the typical Hawaiian touristy things. Which included lounging by our fabulous pools, and the beaches. The beaches are amazing, and where we were they were totally not busy, as in less than 5 people one morning.
It was really nice to go away and have no real agenda or plans, we just did whatever, whenever. Although, that is asking a lot of Ryan he is such a planner and really wants to make the most of everything, and he has a hard time just sitting and relaxing.
Don't worry he managed.

Here is our resort, which we seriously loved everything about it. It was fun to really treat ourselves to such a great place.

I thought with it just being the 2 of us I wouldn't take THAT many pictures but be prepared, I did. I had fun just fooling around and trying to capture some shots from the beaches and whatever else seemed worthy. I don't think you will ever see a post with more pics of Ryan in it. For some reason I think it's funny when we would take pictures of each other, (nothing like a solo shot), but I was usually the one with the camera so lucky for Ryan he finally got some camera spotlight & of course a few self portraits of us.

We went to a luau which was totally fun, entertaining and had way too much good food.

Ryan did a preggo shot of me so here I am just over 6 months

We went to Haleakala National Park, which is such a cool drive as you just keep going up and up above the clouds. We checked out the craters at the top. It seemed like a must do to see some volcano sights in Hawaii. Then Ryan (or should I say WE) I guess I agreed to it too, we hiked down into the crater it was breezy going down, and seriously killer coming up. Honestly what was I thinking it was like Susie vs. the Volcano. I know sound ridiculous & it was.
Fortunately he did feel kinda bad for making us hike way down into the crater. Unfortunately there was only one way out ... on my own 2 feet.
The picture does in no way do it justice this is part of the trail we hiked down. I know it looks like a nice easy walk, but it was brutal not to mention we were hiking in Hawaii in the middle of the afternoon, scorcher.

I laugh when I get Ryan to do some awesome picture posing.

If you know Ryan you may be familiar with his love of golfing. If you know Ryan you know his personality and when he gets into something he is like full on, & dedicates every thing to it. So he usually doesn't take on too many different things. Golf has made the cut, he freaking loves it. Everything about it. Anyways there are some amazing courses in Hawaii, it just so "happened" that the most amazing golf course (where they just played the PGA tour a week before we got there) was right at our resort. Oh life coincidences right! So he did get out to a few courses and really it was a huge highlight for him. He seriously loved the courses & could talk about them forever. The views were pretty amazing, but again I'm so not a golfer & will never understand how you could choose to do golf over sun, fun & beaches.



So there you have it. I do have to say we could not have done this without my parents & sister and Ryan's parents who all had Sadie stay with them for a bit. THANK YOU again! Really she is like a little slice of paradise to the grandparents right?