The plan for today had been sleep in til about brunch- brunch, chocolate tasting, nap dinner.
Well I'm sure on this trip all of those things will happen, but the only one that happened today was dinner.
I normally go to bed around 9pm pst. Well by the time we got back last night it was 10pm Hawaiian time so about midnight back home. I was really hoping to sleep in, but my body had other plans.
So I was lazy and forced myself to stay in bed until the sun came up. Then I sat on the patio for a while before wandering down the the beach.
The tide was coming in and oh my is that water strong. It was effort to keep myself in a straight line on the sand. I walked down to the end of our beach and back (about a mile) while having a nice video chat with my mom. The last few swells were larger than expected and I ended up quite wet. Thankfully our Airbnb has a washer dryer so the outfit was not lost for the trip. I came back to the unit, got cleaned up and took a nap.
Next we were going to do Chocolate tasting. Unfortunately my 3rd party booker didn't get the memo that it had been moved to tomorrow. All is not lost, we will get chocolate, but it just didn't happen today.
Finding ourselves in need of something sweet we meandered down the road to Island Cream Co. to all fo my Minnesota friends, their flavors rival Izzys. They even have a green apple and a salted caramel (if you know, you know). we will absolutely be going back here while on the trip, so J can do the ode to Izzys and so I can try to make your own snow cone adventure...so many taps to choose from.
After Ice cream and a trip to Safeway to pick up the essentials: Coffee, Alcohol, Fruit and Yogurt, we headed back to our place where we took residence on the balcony to enjoy local libations of beer/seltzer in the sun.
After imbibing, we headed back in for some quiet time before sunset.
This is the portion of the trip that I know is teaching me the lessons I need to learn in life. Not every moment has to be planned. Sometimes it's okay to just be in a hotel room and enjoy the view. I don't have to be the energizer bunny-going and going and going. I can just relax on vacation.
Turns out I can't just relax, or as much as I may want to my internal workings really struggle when things don't go according to plan.
The plan was to wake up late have a lat brunch and be hungry but not starving for a 7:30 dinner reservation. But today didn't go as planned and while I was okay (because snacks) J was hungry much earlier. Marriage is compromise and today that meant canceling diner reservations that I was looking forward to, so my husband didn't feel like he was starving. We are literally a stone through from Maui brewing, so we went there. I won't go back and don't recommend it to anyone going to Maui. The food is sub-par and the drink list left a lot to be desired if your not in the mood for beer- I wasn't I was in the mood for very frufru cocktails, because that was the plan.
On a typical day in Washington if I had to cancel a dinner reservation, I would probably be fine. But on top of everything else today, I was not fine. I could feel the melt down setting in as I'm sitting at the bar. I'm in my 30's a meltdown at a bar is not something I care to do at this point in my life. So as J went to pay I took a walk. A walk down the entire beach and back - A little under 2 miles round trip. And I'm still not okay I feel out of control of my body. This is not how I wanted to spend my vacation.
Yes I know this is something I need to work on, but I plan for a reason, so that I have control over things, it helps me get through life.
I've got nothing left for tonight, I just hope tomorrow is better
Signing off for now
C
Sorry.....
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