So, Hawaii was wonderful, basically. We actually ended up stopping in Los Angeles on Thanksgiving to see our familia in California, resulting in a Dim Sum Thanksgiving Feast, haha. They have great fruit there. Mmmm.

Anyway, post-Hawaii, I am now three different skin colors. My upper body is now the normal color that humans should be — enough color to look healthily sunkissed, but not so much that my skin color fails to correctly reflect my ethnicity. My legs, meanwhile, have been burnt to a crisp and are too dark or a bright red. Hot, I know. My torso has remained its usual pale-ish, albino-y white. Ahhh.

Luckily, most of the color differentiation can be attributed to a day-long kayaking trip that we took which was wonderful (kayaking to a nearby island, lunch on the beach, mini-geography lesson, some snorkeling, and kayaking home), so it was worth it.

Anyway, I won’t recite the details of the trip here — my sister took plenty of pictures so I’m sure I can look back on it that way. Aloha!