Finding out for the first time I would be leaving for Hawaii left me with so much excitement and anticipation for days. It was finally happening!! Then came the many months in between for the wait. It couldn’t come fast enough. The more I thought about it the further away it felt. With only little time left we started to reserve all of our excursions that we would do while we were there. There was so much to do and look at in so little time! Everything was planned and packed with a weeks’ worth of sightseeing and excursions.

Now all I had to do was wait…again. Finally the time came and now the dreaded ten hour flight to paradise awaited me. I stayed up all night waiting and waiting for the time to roll my bags out the house and onto a plane. Everything seemed a bit surreal, in ten hours’ time I would be landing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to a bucket list destination. The flight itself wasn’t so bad as I did sleep most of the time and the other time was spent catching up on movies I haven’t seen yet and tracking the flight as it slowly got closer to the little specs of land floating in the ocean.

Finally it came time to land! I was so lucky to get a window seat on the way over as the aerial views were amazing. I could see Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor, jagged mountains and cliffs and crystal blue waters. It was amazing! I left with a sweatshirt on and arrived ready to put on my swim suit, I was finally here! I couldn’t wait to see what everyone always talked about and the pictures that everyone else always took. Now it was my time to take the pictures and describe what it felt like to snorkel in clear blue water with tropical fish, swim with sharks and attend my very first luau.

It all was such a blast! Of course it was all over in a blink of an eye but I was able to take home many unforgettable memories and the hopes I would be able to return again soon.
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