I've been waiting for this forever and a day

Ok well that may be a bit dramatic but I'm super excited! Me and the hubbs are going to Hawaii! I'm sure many of you are rolling your eyes behind your computer screens ... I can just picture it... "must be nice!" That's something I would probably say to someone who announces in a blog they're going on a nice trip. But hear me out.... we need this trip!
In college I did a lot traveling. I loved it. Loved exploring, learning.... yada yada. Now that I've been married for a few years and have been a parent for almost 2, I have no desire to go anywhere where I have to think. I want to go somewhere with a beach where I can lay around and do nothing besides work on my tan (or in my case attempt a slightly darker shade of pasty white) and drink girly beverages of the alcoholic variety. So Hawaii has been on my list of places I wanted to go with my wonderful husband to get away. I knew that logistically it would be difficult enough with one child, and that trying to get away for a trip like that with more than one child would be very difficult. So I've said for a long time that I didn't want to have any more kids until we could go to Hawaii. As time went on, I started to doubt we'd ever be able to go, let alone before another child comes into the picture.
Until my husband and his amazingness came to me one day with some good news. "I have some good news. We might be able to go to Hawaii." Those were his exact words. I believe my response was "Ummm... what?" You see I know Hawaii is synonymous with expensive. Because if we're going to go, we're going to do it right. None of this Motel 6in' it in Maui that's for sure. We've been working hard at paying down debt and we're making progress so any extra $ we have now needs to go to that, not to a Hawaii trip.
So do you remember my last post? In case not HERE it is. The one where I was blabbering about how much my husband has been working? Turns out the hard work and long hours he's been putting in have paid off. His boss came to him and thanked him for how much he's been working and said "I'm sure your wife probably isn't too happy with you right about now." Who me? ;) So he offered to give us his frequent flier miles to send us to LA to visit family. Very nice of him to do. So my husband jokingly says, "well the wife's been wanting to go to Hawaii.... how many miles you willing to part with?" And his boss said sure!!!! Can you believe that? So this is the day my husband came home and told me we "may" be going to Hawaii. The catch was, I knew the rest of the trip was going to be really expensive even without having to pay for the flights so we talked about working really hard until our trip to save. Fastforward a few days. The bosses wife who co-owns the company pulled Abe aside and said she was very excited for us and that she remembered I wanted to wait to have more kids until we could go to Hawaii. On a sidenote I don't remember ever telling her that... who tells the hubbs' bosses wife about their family planning? But apparently I must have. ... So they were excited for us to go and she said they would like to take care of our hotel while we're there as well! Oh my stars I was so excited!!!! Now we just have to come up with spending money. As if all that wasn't enough... a few days later they offered to pay for a rental car and a helicopter ride for the 2 of us while we're there. SHUT.YOUR.MOUTH! I literally had tears in my eyes each time Abe came home to tell me more good news.
We leave in 3 weeks! We'll be staying for a week in Maui. I feel like a school girl that just won Justin Beiber tickets or something. I'm excited to relax, not think about work or Dora the explorer, pets, or any of our other responsibilities (it's impossible for me to not think about my sweet girl :) and just spend time with my husband. I need this... we need this. So I hope that makes you feel better to know that we're not the types of people that just take trips all the time. Proof that hard work pays off. Maybe not when and how you want it to, but it always, ALWAYS pays off.
Be ready for picture overload when we get back. And don't get all anxious for a pregnancy announcement or anything since we're taking this trip. With time. We'll see. Right now all I can think about is Maui or bust!