Best Week Ever: Days 1 & 2

I'm gonna try to catch up on the last few weeks... It was a crazy, but amazing time in Hawaii! It all started on Wednesday (9/1) with a great, first class trip home- thanks mom & dad :)! Jade and I boarded the plane, the flight attendant hung up my dress, and we began sipping mimosas. Now I gotta say, that's the way to fly! We were greeted in Kona by my dad, and our great friend Angie who flew in from San Antonio just an hour before, then headed out to meet with the marriage license agent to make sure things are legal before the big day! From there we headed back to Kona to Costco to stock up on food and drinks for the rehearsal dinner.





The next morning Ang and I woke up for an AMAZING sunrise run! At 0530, neither of us could sleep anymore so we decided we might as well go for a run. It was a beautiful sunrise and the perfect time of day to be running. We ran out to the end of a road near my house where there is an unobstructed view of Haleakala (Maui). It was crystal clear and you could see every groove in the mountain as the sun shed its light. Then, we looked to our left and watched as a perfect full semicircle of a rainbow materialized in front of our eyes. (Wish I had a picture to post, but it was sort of like this)

Then we made the trip up to Waimea to run some errands. On the way we stopped at the scenic overlook to take some pictures looking out over the Kohala Coast. Here's one of me and Angie.

From there we headed down to the Mauna Lani (where the wedding was taking place and where many of our friends and family were staying) to meet with Pinkie our wedding coordinator to run through the last minute details. She took us and Jade's parents around the grounds of the hotel in her little golf cart where we ran into Matt and Sarah and they jumped in with us of the rest of the ride.

Sarah and I in the back of the golf cart!

The beginning of a wonderful week!