A mere ten minutes after getting home from Thanksgiving dinner, I bumped into some friends who invited me to hop in the car on a journey without a destination. Oh but how could I decline? We blasted the best of Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber and drove past twinkling Christmas lights and vacant restaurants until we reached a cheap bakery and of course the mall. Black Friday sales had appeared early, and although too poor to buy much ourselves, we enjoyed fingering through the lovely winter wear {much too warm for Hawaii}, melting our hearts in the pet store and pulling Tyler away from all the Star Wars merchandise.
The next day I spent in bed with a book, until late that night when we drove to a random beach on the far side of the island for a camping trip rich with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and friends' laughter. It took us till 1 AM to figure out how to put up the tent, and then we took a barefoot beach walk {and narrowly escaped an aggressive encounter with a homeless man and his dog}. We exchanged stories and photos and talked about the future and were almost too awake at 4 AM to fall asleep.
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| Tyler and his Jedi robes. |
Finally it was time to pick up Courtney and take the long drive back home {Tyler admitted that after this weekend he had memorized the way around the island}. We were all exhausted, running on so little sleep {and poor Noelle was giving a talk the next morning at 8} but boy is that a sign of an amazing Thanksgiving break.
...and a bonus photo from Joseph's facebook:
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