Hawaiian V Day

What could be better than spending Valentine's Day in Hawaii? I don't know. Maybe spending it in London or Paris.  But since that would mean selling our car, our clothes, and ourselves to get there, that is slightly out of the question probably until we're senior citizens.  Then we might be able to afford that...Oh yeah and we're still in school, with the obligation to attend the majority of classes so...Not going to happen.  
Hawaii is the next best thing, or equal, maybe even better.  And we had a wonderful day. After classes, we drove about 1/2 hour up the North Shore to Haleiwa, where we had lunch at a cute little bakery, Waialua Bakery.  All of their food is homemade and grown on their family farm.  Ben got a turkey cranberry sandwich (to which he added bacon...sounds kind of gross to me) and I had a delicious roasted veggie sandwich with avocado and hummus on pesto wheat bread.  We shared a mint lemonade and it all tasted divine.  I was hoping for a cute valentine's treat display in the bakery window, but by the time we got there, it was all cleaned out.  No heart shaped cookie for us this year.  We walked around the cute little town and checked out some surf shops and art galleries and even some tacky overpriced tourist shops with absolutely nothing worth buying, unless you like shark tooth necklaces and discolored statues of hula girls....
An art gallery was featuring Heather Brown's work and we fell in love with her art! If only we could buy art right now! That would really help our cinder block walls out...haha.  
On our way home, we stopped at a beach to watch the sunset, which was stunning.  And as soon as the sun went down it started to rain. 

We're the luckiest kids around.