Breaking news: the Country Mouse and the City Mouse are about to embark on their biggest holiday yet, winging their way across the Pacific to three Hawaiian islands - O’ahu, Maui and the Big Island of Hawai’i.
This holiday seems to have snuck up on me, I certainly haven’t done my usual level of planning (i.e. obsessed over-preparation) and despite this causing me some panic I am now so thrilled about this vacation, that, as of yesterday, it’s the first thing my excited mind jumps to every morning.
Many adventures are planned, including: flying through the air on a zipline in the West Maui mountains; seeing the world’s most active volcano on land and then doing the inverse, snorkelling in an underwater volcanic crater; spending time with a dear friend (Wendy-from-Maui who has already appeared in this blog) and her partner, the multi-talented Mark-from-Maui; indulging parrot head tendencies in Waikiki and searching the star-blanketed Hawaiian skies for the Southern Cross which will, to Australian eyes, be sitting in a whole new place. But it’s more than that.
For a regular couple (i.e. not us) this would simply be an indulgent tropical idyll, but for long-distance lovers (i.e. us) this vacation has a whole other layer of meaning. It is our longest period of uninterrupted time together and our first holiday not ruled from day one by an impending end date. Woooo hoooo......three weeks! Dear Country Mouse, a special Hawaiian message for you - ‘E Hoomau Maua Kealoha’.
The trip raises some intriguing questions: how will we travel as a couple? What secrets will be revealed after such an unprecedented togetherness? What’s your advice for these travelling mice?
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