Hawaii Vacation Day 11 (Friday) - LAST DAY

Even though it's our LAST day, I've been so looking forward to today.

Today is the day we get our TATTOOS! 

Jennifer and I definitely wanted to get tattoos and back on Tuesday when we rented the Jeep, we stopped in and made our appointments. 

Last morning waking up to this view

Stencil first. I plan on getting something vertical going down either side of the sun/spine or some type of cover-up that is Polynesian to tie it all together. 

Jennifer covering up her scars

so cool

The girls went for a walk - they just looked super old to me here. 

I'm not sure if this is a flex or not...but the girls were super patient while the THREE of us got tattoos. Mine took just a little over an hour. Jennifer's about the same and Steve's was quick - maybe 40 minutes.

We were at the tattoo shop for more than 3 hours in total. It was good timing because our flight wasn't until 8pm. We planned to get to the airport early, find a spot and eat our dinner there. 

These kids were troopers during our trip home. 

We had TWO connections on the way home. Honolulu --> Denver --> Chicago --> Rochester.

It was exhausting just to think about.

Luckily on our first leg, they allowed us to check our carry ons for free - so we chose to do that. Our layover in Denver was a short one and if we didn't need to run and deal with 3 roller carry ons, the better. 

Luckily, after running a little bit, we made it. With time to spare to hit up the bathroom.

Our Chicago connection was longer, thankfully. So a bit less stressful.

Once we landed in Rochester, I was shocked to see our bags coming down the schute rather quickly. We gathered up our belongings and got an Uber. My truck was at my mom's house, so we had to go there first, drop off my sister, then drive the 40 minutes home. 

It. Felt. Like. Forever. 

Before we got home.

But we got home. 

Man, it feels GOOD to be home. 

Hawaii Vacation Day 10 (Thursday) - Canceled

For our last full day, I had booked an early morning coffee cruise, just for me and Steve. It was a 7am start time, with a 30 minute walk to the pier. 

I got up at like 5:15am in order to get ready for the day and have plenty of time to grab coffee and walk over in that direction.

Around 6am, right when we were almost ready to head out, I got a call saying that the Captain had been involved in an accident earlier that morning and they needed to push our start time out a couple of hours.

Start time at 8am. Sure. Sounds good. We have time to grab coffee and walk around and do some stuff before heading over. 

And again right before we were about to head out, we got another call. This time saying that the Captain was still talking with the local police after the accident. And asked if we'd be ok with pushing the start time back to 10am. 

I didn't really want to wait around anymore. The cruise was supposed to be 2 hours and after waiting around for a while, we just weren't feeling it anymore. So we decided to cancel and take the refund.

We had an entire day with no plans whatsoever. 

We wanted to make sure to hit up the beach and pool one more time. 

And pack. I wanted to pack our shit up because after this many days in a hotel...our stuff is everywhere. 

There are no pics to share of this day, as we just focused on cleaning up and getting ourselves ready for travel.

Tomorrow, TATTOOS! So exciteed for this. 

New Tattoo

It's time! 

I'm so excited but nervous too.

This is going to be a rather large tattoo and it's the first one I'll have that is significant in size. All my other tattoos are small and very small.

I want it to be on my side, on my rib cage.

It's 5 lines of text.

Appointment Has Been Made!

You GUYSSSSS.

It came kinda out of nowhere. 

I follow this tattoo artist on Instagram. I'm not sure how or why, but I do. 

He posted that he randomly had some walk-in appts open up. I DM'd him about 40 minutes after he had posted but he had filled all his open spots already! 

So we got to chatting and I talked with Steve and part of my Christmas present this year will be a new tattoo! I'm so excited!

My appointment is February 24th.

I don't know exactly what I want yet. Well, that's not entirely true. 

I know one that I'm getting. Song lyrics. 

But the other one? It'll be some sort of black line art of florals or something. 

It'll be on my upper thigh, hip area, I THINK.

And I CANNOT WAIT. 

I sent some Pins from Pinterest for inspiration. I haven't decided exactly what I want yet. 

EESH. I'm so excited. I'll have a new tattoo by the time we go on vacation!