Beach destinations are usually not our thing. At all. It’s not our style to spend 2 weeks lying on a beach, somewhere touristy, and do nothing but sunbathe; we very much prefer walking around cities or going on road trips. However, I must admit that ever since our trip to California, we’ve been nurturing a certain yearning for water, sand and sun. So, for our big annual trip, we thought long and hard about where we wanted to go. There was a lot of back and forth between several destinations, but somehow, Hawaii kept coming up. It kept coming up until it became our top destination of choice.

And if we were to go to Hawaii, then there is only one island we wanted to visit: Oahu. The decision to go to Hawaii was both exhilarating and a bit nerve wracking! As previously mentioned, we are not beach people and yet we decided to spend our vacation exactly there. There were so many things to think about and logistics to plan out for this trip that we normally don’t go through for our other vacations (like how do we change in and out of our bathing suits? We really had no idea! And I’m still not sure we nailed it…). Originally, we were supposed to leave in May, but we had a few things to sort out, so the trip was postponed until October, just before the rainy season starts.

All in all, we did not regret our decision one bit. The 2 weeks we spent there were magical.