Archive for September, 2007

I can’t call this a honeymoon because it wasn’t. Not really. Chad and I had a fantastic 12 hours after the wedding together, and one days, we’ll have a real honeymoon. One of these days we’ll come back to the Big Island and do all of the things we wanted to do. First, I...
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As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. I’ll let the amazing pictures Alecia Hoyt took for us do the talking. The entire Wedding Gallery is here. I tried to pick out some favorites to share, but it was just too difficult. Instead, here’s a teaser.
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I tried to sleep in. I even stayed up a little extra late the night before. I thought that with the help of my mai tai, lava flow, and super duper eye mask, I might get to sleep in until 8. Well, almost. I think I woke up at around 7, got up, and...
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With all of the cakes out of the way we were free to go to the beach. Hapuna Beach State Park is consistently voted one of the best beaches in the world by travel magazines, and for good reason. It’s gorgeous, the waves aren’t too rough, the sand is nice and the water is...
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After I got the pineapple upside down cakes in the oven, I started work on the tropical carrot cake. I made this cake for Chad on his birthday, we liked it a lot – and after several batches of pineapple upside down cake, we knew we would want something different for the wedding. Since...
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Ahhh, Friday morning. The day that would bring a beach picnic, nail appointment and luau at the Kona Village Resort! Yes, Friday promised to be a super fun day. At least it would be after I finished making the cakes. Oh yes, I made the cakes. I made individual pineapple upside down cakes for...
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One full day in Hawaii and we’ve already lost track of time. After the small non-disaster of the previous evening’s ‘event’ we decided to play everything by ear. I think that if Pele had been kind enough to keep her lava flow where it was in early June, then we would have driven down...
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I woke up EARLY. 3:30 am early. Believe me, it was not voluntary, I felt horrible. I couldn’t tell if it was high adrenaline from the traveling and wedding excitement, but my stomach felt horrible.
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Kohala Ranch is a beautiful place. It’s also a free range ranch. This means you very well may meet mules, wild boar, goats, pheasant, turkey and cows while driving through the neighborhood. Especially cows – there are cows everywhere. We knew that the Big Island is rural, but I had no idea this would...
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Hooray for Hawaii, hooray for getting off the plane. After five hours of entertaining 3 children on an airplane, I must say that Chad and I aren’t planning on having our own kids for quite a while. Like I’ve said before, they’re good kids, but the constant need for stimulations and the never ending...
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