back to work...

SO I'm reluctantly (I know you don't believe me) heading back to HI today.. It's been the best vacation (for visiting and such) I've had to date and I just don't want it to end. Hanging with Erin and Aren in Minneapolis and meeting their son Tanner (cute!!) was great.

We went to a bunch of fun restaurants, the Mall of America (I'm so ashamed, but they have rides!!), the Minneapolis Zoo (I"ll be posting that one of these days), and the bggest salad bar I've seen in downtown Minne (and I ate lots of it!!)

Getting to 2 weddings was crazy, but worth it. I got to have a bunch of time with my parents, but it's never enough since they're always so much fun to spend time with. I saw all of my mom's side of the family plus a few others, was a trial dance instruction student, ate LOTS of good food (and got to grocery shop for it all), hung out with some old high school buds while shaking my ass with my brother and his roommates to one of the best cover bands I've seen (they did the Killers, Beastie Boys, the 'Annie are you OK' song, and more that I can't rememer cause I was so busy wiggling), I bought a bunch of stuff for me and a couple other people, went to the U of M art exhibit (which was kickass), had super good 1 on 1's with each of my parents, neighbors and such, and got incredibly sick of talking about living in hawaii and explaining that I don't really do anything interesting at work to everyone that didn't know - but hey - it's something to talk about.

And last night I got to hang with Rosie and meet her soon-to-be-husband Chris. Awesome.

Just the kind of thing I need before Dave leaves for a month and I add school to work for the next 3-4 years!