The Fall Travel Bug

For the last two years I get this random need to travel somewhere.  Last year I decided I wanted to see Disneyland at Halloween time.  My best friend Hilary and I then booked it and spent 4 fabulous days in California at the Disneyland Resort.  Well this year the travel bug has hit me again. . . .

I went to get a temple recommend on Sunday and my Bishop was telling me about his recent trip to Hawaii with his wife.  I told him that I had a couple of cousins that live there and he asked me why I hadn't gone to visit them, that it was a great excuse to go.  Well this is what started it all.  I went home and started pricing airfare, hotel and car rental and then posted on my facebook account that I was thinking about planning a trip to Hawaii.  The next day when I looked at my facebook account my cousin's wife had posted that she would love for me to come visit and that I could stay with them if I did.  Well we started sending messages back and forth, basically me double and triple checking that she wouldn't mind if I crashed at their house for a week and if I could bring a friend along as well.  She also told me that the temple open house was scheduled for Oct. 20-Nov. 13, which did me in.  I decided I NEEDED to be there for the temple open house.

My next goal was to find someone to go with me.  I had talked to my other best friend Christine earlier in the week and she had told me that she was going to Orlando with her brother, so I figured she was out.  So I decided I was going to make a proposal to Hilary about it.  I did my research because I knew that she would ask about prices and everything.  I ended up finding airfare for $507 round trip with only 1 layover, which I thought was an AMAZING deal.  When I calculated everything I found that it would cost about $600 for airfare and car rental for a week.  (My thought was how can I turn that down?)  So I talked to Hilary and she looked to see what she could do.  Unfortunately her answer was no, :'(  which honestly bummed me out quite a bit.  I was in a bad mood the rest of the day.

The next day I was talking to Christine again and told her that I had talked to Hilary about it and that I couldn't find anyone to go with me.  I was telling her how I had even got the pricing info and everything.  Well by the time I had told her the entire story she said, "Cindy, let me think about it".  Later that day we talked about it a little bit more and that evening she text me and said she was in.  This seriously made my day.  I'm not even kidding when I say that I did a little dance and have had a permanent smile on my face ever since.  So on Thursday I booked our airfare and we are now going to make a visit to my cousins house on the beautiful island of Oahu.  I am soooooooo excited to be able to hang out with my cousin's amazing wife (he is in the Navy, and is gone right now) and get to see Hawaii.  I cannot wait to go!!!!!!  Seven weeks and Christine and I will be in Hawaii, enjoying paradise.