The key is your first night. As exhausted as you may be, you HAVE to force yourself to stay up until 10, or your whole trip is screwed, though if you have a view facing the east, it IS incredibly romantic to see the sunrise.
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The key is your first night. As exhausted as you may be, you HAVE to force yourself to stay up until 10, or your whole trip is screwed, though if you have a view facing the east, it IS incredibly romantic to see the sunrise.
Absolutely. Don't go to your room. Go out and do something active and collapse into bed later. It is the best decision you will make on the whole trip.
We were never really ones to go clubbing or drink heavily when it's just the two of us. Most of the things we wanted to do were all daytime activities. I never adjusted much to the time change and I don't think I'd change it when we go back out there (someday).
We would watch the sunrise every morning from our balcony and be amazed that there were only one or two other people outside. It's not a view I get in the middle of the country. I was going to enjoy it every chance I could.
Is most of the night scene made up of locals?
All this talk of Hawaii, 20 years ago I nannied on the Big Island. I got paid to live in Hawaii. Well, so do other people but I had few expenses--mainly just snacks/souvenirs. The family was actually living in Japan at the time, so this was basically vacation for them (they didn't want to live in Japan during the summer). We did touristy things. We had a pool in the backyard and beyond that the ocean. They were lava "beaches" so we didn't go into the ocean at our house. On my days off I walked into Kona and just wandered around. Best. Job. Ever.
For me It was more having enough energy throughout the whole day. Nightlife in Hawaii isn't all that grand and isn't much different than anywhere else.
Hippity, if you're going to get drinks though, go to Rumfire. It's a nicer bar on the beach and on weekends and some weekdays they have live music as well.
Although probably drastically different than 20 years ago, Kona is still absolutely beautiful. The selfie I posted on here about a month back was in Kona. Couldn't live there though. Not that I go out every night, but I need the option from time to time, and outside of Kona Brewing Company, that whole town shuts down at 8pm.
Since we're sharing pics of our adorable dogs.
This is making me nostalgic. I never presented my credentials when I was vying to be Floppies step dad. Here are the late-great Sasha and Simba (15 years gone).
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My nephew just hasn't been able to learn that when he's about to fall, to put out his arms to brace for impact. So, he always ends up going head first whenever he biffs it.
This is making me nostalgic. I never presented my credentials when I was vying to be Floppies step dad. Here are the late-great Sasha and Simba (15 years gone).
That mustache, Boxster!
Don't worry, I'm going to get scuba certified so there will actually be more opportunities for me to be eaten by sharks, and likely more probable since I won't be in a cage.
You're on the short list for Riley's guardianship, Boxster.
Ugh. Going on day 3 of hubby being sick. Just fever and a headache. (Not a severe headache, just annoying) He's alternating ibuprofen and aspirin, and he's currently on his second nap of the day. This is his first day staying home completely.
*sigh*
He has sooooo much stuff he needs to do at work, and less than a week to do it.
*sigh*
He has sooooo much stuff he needs to do at work, and less than a week to do it.
Yeah, I certainly didn't go out at night (in charge of the kids). We only got over to Hilo once, I think we drove back up that side after visiting Volcanoes National Park. And making the return trip through windey roads in the fog caused one kid to get carsick. That was fun. But we went to a luau at one of the big hotels, went up north to the falls and white sand beaches, went to a couple different beaches/parks south of Kona that had awesome snorkeling. We ate 80% of our meals outside on the patio. My room on the second floor had a lanai with a beach view. The house was set up as a corporate vacation home. I think I found it on satellite view not too long ago.
The previous summer I had nannied for the same family when they lived in Chicago. They live in one of the fancy north suburbs. The house they lived in was in a Michael Jordan commercial and they lived close to a beach where they filmed parts of Ferris Bueller. Then they moved to Japan for awhile, after that they moved to Australia. By that time I was married and they didn't ask me to nanny.
Yeah, the Greenlee School of Journalism still has that unrelated emphasis. For those who don't know, the school calls it a Designated Area of Concentration or DAC for short. When I came to Iowa State, the DAC requirement was 24 credits of classes that weren't GenEd or journalism classes, and you had to map out what courses you were going to take and get it approved by your advisor.
You could bypass having to do all of that and still fulfill the DAC requirement if you just declared a second major in something, which is what I did. I also majored in history, since it was all of the same GenEd classes as journalism, and I only need to complete 30 credits of history courses to complete the history major.
Right after I graduated, the Greenlee School of Journalism changed the requirements for the DAC from 24 credits to just get a minor in something outside of journalism. I could have graduated at least a semester earlier than I did if all I had to do was get a minor for the DAC.
I really don't complain about it though. Because the registrar's office found a loophole in my degree audit, so I wasn't marked down as a double major, but rather a double degree. So, I have two pieces of paper hanging on my wall from ISU. Makes me look more sophisticated, or at least I feel that way.
But yeah, between the DAC requirement and having to fulfill a 400-hour internship, all journalism majors at Iowa State may as well plan on being at ISU for 4.5 to 5 years.
Professor made us do that when we went to the UK. I had puked upon landing in Scotland (and therefore felt "carsick" the rest of the day - the very warm and swervy bus ride to our B&B didn't help) so I was just about dead by 10pm when we begged him to let us go to bed. We'd been up like 36 hours straight - or me at least because I slept exactly none of the flight over. The rest of the trip was great but that first day was just hell.
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