Summer is here!

The official start of summer was June 21st this year. It has been HOT! Last weekend was over 100 degrees at San Gabriel. We cooled off by spending time in the apartment complex pool. Yesterday we went to a pool birthday party. The pool was filled with parents and kids. Everyone enjoyed the cooling pool. Today we packed the kids up and went to the Huntington Library. We signed up for membership at Huntington Library because it is really close to our home and the kids can enjoy the beautiful flowers and scenery. It was 90 degrees today so we spent about an hour and half at the Children's Garden, Japanese Garden and the new Chinese Garden.

Maui Vacation 6/3-6/9 2008

This is our 2nd vacation trip to Maui. We went last year also around the first week of June, before the peak summer season begins. We stayed at Kapalua Villa for both trips because we love the open space so the kids can run around, there's the full kitchen so we can cook and washer/dryer. This year we stayed at a 2 bedroom villa. Thank goodness we booked our vacation in late March or else the airfare would have been outrageous. 2 of the airlines that service Hawaii (Aloha and ATA) filed for bankruptcy a few days after we confirmed our trip. This was a long awaited vacation for us. This time we traveled with our friends "The Caos". It was their baby's aerial trip. Even though there was a washer/dryer at the villa, I over packed for the kids and myself. In the end, we packed 2 suitcases of clothes and 1 golf case of clubs. Overall, it was a relaxing trip. We enjoyed ourselves at the pool, beach, got suntanned/burnt, ate a lot of delicious food and took tons of pictures.








What made this trip weird for me was we encountered some cockroaches and a toad, I lost and recovered my house keys, got my cell phone wet, lost and recovered my cell phone. As I previously posted in my blog, my brain has been deteriorating ever since parenthood. Of course that's not an excuse but I am so grateful for those nice people out there...the person who found my keys and turned it into the resort security and the lady who found my cell in the restroom. All I can say is "We'll be back, Maui"