Posted by Jess in General,Travel

Aloha and mahalo for reading! We made the long trip to Maui in early July to enjoy the wedding of our good friends Jon & Mel (hooray!). It was a beautiful wedding indeed. The vacation had some good parts and some bad parts, but over all we had a good time.

Good parts:

The wedding (duh).

Sunrise over the volcano Haleakala.

Surviving the road to Hana which is 52 miles and 3 hours of curves, one lanes bridges, and beautiful scenery. We hiked a bamboo forest and saw a waterfall off the side of the highway.

Touring Lahina, an old whaling town and the former center of the Hawaiin royalty.

All you can eat and drink luau with dances from across Polynesia.

Lots of beach time without a major sunburn (whoohoo!).

Traveling with really awesome people

Bad parts:

Two cases of car theft, including our backpack. Luckly no money was in it; just socks, sunscreen, granola bars, and our keys from back here in WI (which unluckily are really expensive to replace).

A somewhat tempermental condo that included a broken toliet, AC, and a fan that made a ticking noise most of the time. Again, everything was fixed and Boone got to play MacGyver in his attempts to make the fan stop ticking.

It was really hot the whole time- like close to 90 most days. Good thing the wedding was at sunset!

On a snorkling trip, Boone and I spent most of the time green with sea sickness.

On the morning we left, Boone took a surf board to the ribs when surfing. That made a few uncomfortable plane rights and a week away from the gym.

Oh well- a bad day in Maui is still a day in Maui, There is a page on the right with some pictures from the trip. Enjoy and aloha!

Also, congrats to Boone’s cousin Erin and her new husband Johannas, and our friends Scott and Kristin. We attended their weddings right after we got back from Maui, so the celebrations continued well into July.

Posted by Jess in General

So Boone and I haven’t really posted a whole lot lately, which probably tells you that we are busy. So, here is a wrap up post for the month of June:

-We went camping with Andrew and John at Lake Eau Claire and good times were had by all!
-We celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary with a fairly quiet evening involving dinner and wedding cake (still tasted good after a whole year in the freezer!).
-We were really lucky and missed out on most of the flooding in southern WI. Some of our neighbors had wet basements and flooded yards, but we were luckly enough to stay dry.
-We took our good friends up to Osseo for Lake Martha Days. I think they had fun and it was good to spend some in our hometown with family and old friends. Driving home through the Dells after the flooding made for some interesting times but we made it.
-We held bachelor and bachelorette parties for our good friends Jon & Mel, and also hosted a wedding luau for them (they are getting married in HI in July). Everyone survived with minor losses (glasses, wallet, dinner) and it was a good time.
-Boone made the trip way up north for Scott’s bachelor party, involving some good old camping and golfing.

Phew! And it doesn’t slow down! For July, we are high into wedding season. We’ll be in Hawaii for a week, getting Jon and Mel hitched, then we go up to Minneapolis for Boone’s cousin Erin’s wedding, then we go to Osseo and Eau Claire for Scott and Kristen’s wedding. Between last summer and this year, people keep telling me I should be a wedding planner or write a book about weddings. It doesn’t sound like a bad idea at this point.