a day late and a few dollars shorter...

Well, Ryan and I are back from Hawai'i, or should we say that we're visiting Milwaukee until all of our possessions can be sold and we can move out there. It is absolutely beautiful, and would recommend the trip to anyone. However, I wouldn't recommend OUR trip to everyone----find your own un-eventful way of getting there. :)
To make a long story short, (don't worry, I'll explain in detail later) we arrived at the Milwaukee airport on time, and that was the last thing that happened "on-time" for us. Picture #1 is after traveling for 19 hours straight, and then missing day number one of our cruise. It was a lot like being on the amazing race, and then missing the connection at the last minute. We did get on the boat the next day after a rather expensive flight to Hilo and night in a hotel that the airlines didn't foot the bill for because our delays/cancellations/luggage being lost/waiting for other flights and the people on them to get on our planes/brake problems were apparently ALL weather related and therefore not their fault. Anyway, picture number 2 does show the happy newly weds (the "young"est couple on the ship by probably 40 years) The last two pics are just fun shots. Young Brothers was a shipping company in Hawai'i that we saw a lot of, and the last picture is a night shot of lava hitting the ocean water at night. It was a stunning view, but not easily captured on camera. I do, however, have to through a HUGE thank you to Marni and Chris. We had a great time with the camera that you guys got us! What an amazing gift! We're hoping to get the pictures onto my computer today, and then have some better posts to show off our new camera to everyone. Thank you so much! We had a blast with the camera!