Aloha!

I am in Hawaii and basking in the endless sunshine and ginger soaked breeze. I don’t have to tell you how beautiful it is here. And the best part is living on island time. You have to respect a culture that greets people with warm greetings of hugs, smiles and flower leis.

We arrived early afternoon to our hotel on Waikiki Beach. The water is a beautiful clear turquoise color and the sand is as soft as snow. The room wasn’t ready yet so we went directly to the beach and started to sink into relaxation. You can feel the stress just roll off your body and out into the waves.

We ended up getting an upgraded room with an oceanfront view. So I get to have a beautifully exotic affair with the ocean for four long days. Hearing that musical sound of the waves crashing in is like a hypnotic song that becomes a trance to your senses. One of my favorite things is to fall asleep to that sound. In just seems to help you find your way to peace.

Two other wonderful things happened for me by getting this room. The tiki bar for the hotel is directly under our room several floors down and it is an open patio. Each night they have live music which consists of an acoustic guitar and one or two singers. So I am blessed with music each evening. I sit up on the balcony for hours just watching the ocean dance in the moonlight as if it was also listening to the music.

The other thing that I love about the view is we are across from a gazebo that jets out into the ocean. It has a simplistic beauty to it that adds elegance to the beach. People walk up to it during the day and want to get their picture taken in it. And at night it comes alive illuminated by the moonlight and is a stage for romance as couples steal a moment or two cradled in it and in each others arms.

And all this is captured in the few hours we spend in the room each night. During the rest of the day we spend hours just relaxing by the pool or on the beach or out exploring the island. Each area seems to have its own personality and style. Remote beaches nestled next to lush mountain ranges and remote coves hosting to visiting catamarans and kayaks.

To say you can loss yourself here seems to be a cheated understatement. A place as beautiful as this seems to provide a vehicle to remove yourself from your hectic world and enjoy a slower pace. Very intoxicating to those of us that lead a busy life.

But I am also taking the time to find myself and reconnect with many lost thoughts while here. When reconnecting here you seem to get the privilege of seeing them with a new fresh perspective. I become a fan again of many of them. And although they are long in the past, what a great way to honor your experiences then to allow yourself to relive them from time to time. Like taking out that favorite old movie that you haven’t watched in awhile and curling up on the coach with it.

For me, taking a vacation is long over due. It is funny but for years I didn’t take one, thinking that I would just wait and go with someone else as I had done for years with my ex. How naïve I have been. Now I realize how wrong it has been to wait for the tomorrows and let the todays slip away from my life.

Experiencing this for me and by myself has been such a great feeling. I couldn’t have asked for a better time and can’t wait to do it again. But until then, I am taking in each moment here and loving it.

Until next time.

Christy