Chasing the Sun...

Ah, the feel of the sun on your back...



Especially when it's been freakin' raining for 3 1/2 weeks straight, and you decide to make a run for it to the other side of the island while you have two days off...oh yeah, baby, in search of the sunlit lands...



So, this weekend, Ananda and I and her friend Eric made a break for it to "the Other Side" as we call it here. We got a bit of a late start on Sat morning (Eric made sushi for breakfast and you just can't rush something like that), but made it to Paia (the first real town past Hana, about an hour and a half drive--at least) around 1-ish.



We headed straight for the beach, and after basking in the sun for a couple hours, made our way to this place called the Flatbread Company, which makes awesome pizza. Yum. No plate lunches for us today! We then headed around to the southwest side of the island toward Kihei and Wailea to hang out with some of Ananda's friends, Jared and Kat.



After crashing at their place for the night, Sunday morning we went to a place called Big Beach in Makena, just south of Wailea, and planted our tushes on the largest stretch of naturally occuring white sand beach in the world (or something like that...it's HUGE).



ALL DAY LONG.



I mean, yeah, we went to Kihei Cafe for breakfast, but then it was straight to the beach, and it was great. Really great. Just lay in the sand all day long, swim in the amazingly clear turquoise water, and wonder how you got so lucky to have absolutely no agenda but this.


This is me, still smiling at 11 at night, all salty and sandy and sunned from a fantastic weekend in the sunshine. Hooray. (oh, and I cut my hair).



This is the newest addition to the farm...a puppy! That is Paul holding our new little girl who doesn't have a name yet. She is absurdly cute. I can't take it.



Um, not much else, trying to stay dry and mud-free (today was actually really beautiful and I spent the entire day at the beach, but at this moment it is currently raining). I got an awesome package from my friend the other day (my first package in Hana!) and he sent me homemade marshmallows--can you say AMAZING? Yup, it was great...and I got this fantastic card from my So-Cal photographer friend Troy with a picture of him and his two boys in their Santa hats and red Rudolph noses...so cute. So it was definitely a good day at the post office with 2--count 'em, 2!--pieces of personal mail. Woo hoo!



Welp, miss you all, hope you are well, and drop me a line if you get a second...