3 posts tagged “maui”

two bottles of sunscreen later...

Mar 22, 2007
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And I’m back in freezing Vancouver. Goddamn freezing Vancouver. BRRRRRR. Shit, shit, shit. We should have stayed longer. It’s supposed to be spring now, right? WTF?!?!?!?!

I still feel afloat and being carried by the waves and currents. Awesome. It goes to show how much time I spent in the water. Haha. We were beach bums and I am toasted.

Special note: For those who are going to Maui and want to experience the zipline…it’s fully booked till April 9 when I checked last March 17. I wasn’t able to go. :( Don’t be like me and think that a lot of people won’t do that, and it would be easy to get a last minute booking. So wrong.

Anyway, I’ve got over a thousand photos to go through. I was too excited to get my films developed from underwater shots, though. I waited for them last night. And I got them in a CD, too. Thank goodness for that option so I can Photoshop the images and turn them into how I really saw the water and the fishes.

Here are a few shots I took from “Turtle Town” [Maluaka Beach, Maui, HI]. These are, obviously, turtles. I think we were at 40-60ft depth…not sure.

Turtle coming up for air. So cute!!! To the right is the catamaran.

Wheeeee!

They are so beautiful to watch underwater. So graceful.

He was swimming up. I was swimming towards him. Fearless!!! Haha.

Lots more photos to come… Check out my Flickr for regular updates. Just click on any of the photos.

YES, I HAD A GREAT TIME!!! WOOHOO! NEED TO GO BACK THERE SOON. :-)

Things surreal

Mar 17, 2007
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Haleakala Crater, Maui, Hawaii.

So many BEAUTIFUL places to see and experience here. <3

it's a sign!

Jan 26, 2007
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Right after new year, someone in my LJ asked if I still make jewelry. Yeah, do I? That made me ask myself as well. And the awful truth is, it has been months since my bead box has seen the light of day. After brewing over the thought for a few days, I looked online for beads. I remembered that one of the things that made me stop beading was the frustration over lack of materials, of beads that I get inspired with. There’s only so much I can do with what I have without having to poke oneself in the eye and make it bleed just becase I’m bored of them. I wanted other things and I didn’t know where to find them.

That night I looked over 100 pages of beads on sale at Etsy and found ones that I like (LOVED!) and it was love at first sight when I saw the blue flowery beads that I had to have it. I had to buy them right that second! And I did, along with other stuff which, hehe, made me shop too much. Those blue beads reminded me of Maui. I thought of D’s mom and dad, because they go there every year. I thought to myself that those would be perfect for his mom. She loves that place. I bought the beads because to me, it nicely represents Hawaii and I was thinking of making something for her with them.

Fast forward to this week. Throughout our friendship–A and I–we’ve always talked about traveling together. Sure we went to Victoria. But that wasn’t much traveling, so to speak. She recently brought up Hawaii, like I mentioned previously, even if she just went there during the holidays. I thought about it, thought about finances (eek, tax time!), RRSPs, etc…things that I should be worrying about around this time of the year, because as a small business owner, there’s nothing more daunting (for me) than gorging out my wallet to give a big lump sum to the government. Whatever, right? This trip is long overdue and I felt this was the right time to do it. We’re both not married, not tied down by anything (kid, pet, clingy boyfriend), she’s not working at the moment, my work allows me to travel (and I haven’t had a real vacation in almost 2 years!)…SO WHAT THE HECK, LET’S DO IT!!! Let’s go to Hawaii!

I don’t know what the hell went on but we just decided rather abruptly that we’re going and that we’re booking our tickets, hotels, etc. ASAP. As I’ve always said, sometimes things happen when you just do it, instead of planning forever and a day and/or dreaming about it. So yesterday, we spent a good part of the day sitting on our asses in front of the computer, looking for tickets, for accommodation, car rental…places. Islands. I called my mom to tell her about what’s happening. She told me she was just talking to my dad about their timeshares and that I should use it because they have accummulated points throughout the years and some of them are expiring in June. What luck! After calling so many times to check on places with the dates that we want, we ended up with reservation for 4 nights in Kauai/Lihue from those points! Yay! But we still wanted to go to Maui and there aren’t available properties to rent because it’s the high season, so we (rather A, mostly) looked on our own. Thankfully, we found a good deal. After we got the accommodations sorted out, A booked our flights through her travel agent in Richmond. I’d say it was a awesome deal. The only thing we need is a transit from Lihue to Kahului, and car rentals, and we’re done. Sweet!!!

Back to the beads. When I got them, I’ve been dreaming of Hawaii, not knowing that a couple of weeks later I’ll be going with my good pal who’s always a treat to be with! =)

Last night, out of excitement and overdose of pizza, I was inspired to make something out of my ‘Hawaii’ beads. It’s just the perfect time to do it, you know? I’d hate to be sentimental, but well, things fall into place in due time. As D’s mom said, we just need to be patient. I guess that goes for how it is when I make something, each piece that I make seems to be some representative of something that has come full circle for me, and that helps be in a state of creativity and create things, and finish them and be satisfied with how a concept in my head is represented in tangible form, a thing that I can be happy about.