We stayed with one of our friend's sister and her husband, their cute family of six kids under the age of 8 and their renter. They were so generous to let us stay in their daughter's bedroom for the whole week! We enjoyed watching those little brown babies play endlessly outside, mostly without shoes, hanging in their tree.
We mostly wanted this trip to be unplanned so that we could really relax and do everything or nothing if we wanted--and that's exactly what we did. A whole lot of napping, reading or listening to our iPods in the beach. We also took the bus into town one day, got mani's and pedi's, visited the International market where we bargained with the cutest little Asian women for jewelry, and walked up and down the touristy parts of Honolulu. The next day, we took the bus up the coast to some really cute little towns with lots of artsy shops and great eats-turned us on to the best breakfast ever-imagine if you will:berry smoothie in a bowl with granola and sliced bananas and honey drizzled over the top. YUMM! Try it, you'll thank me later.
Anyway, it was a great trip--I would highly recommend such a vacation if you'd like to get a lot of R&R, dont' mind looking slightly homeless for the duration due to the fact that it is too humid to do your hair or makeup, and would like to come back looking like an Argentine.
And I really had to work hard to get the 'B' I earned in that class. The class taught us how to work in all different mediums including paper, wood, metal, plastic, cloth-ANYTHING and everything-to create art that shared a message. This class changed my perception of what Art is-prior to this class I would have said, "art is something beautiful that we like to hang on our walls, or put in a china closet." Through the course of this class, my views were expanded to include both the beautiful and the grotesque-both things that you want to look at and things that you hope you will never see again-as long as it shares a message, it is art.
