Seriously guys, I’m so freaking excited about our vacation! This is something I’ve been dreaming of since I was a teenager.
I had a photo I found on google (or maybe it was some other old browser like alta vista or something haha) of the two waterfalls in Kauai (Wailua Falls) as my background on my login on our family computer. I had this photo as my background for years (I also had a picture of a pomeranian saved that I kept looking at) on all my computers and I still have that photo file of the waterfalls on both of my external hard drives. I thought this was the most beautiful picture I’ve ever seen.
Hawaii was on my list from when we read about Pearl Harbor in school (the Ben Affleck movie came out shortly after too, 2001). And then I saw a program called “Sparlost Forsvunnen” which was a Swedish tv-show of people trying to find other people like their birth parents or a lost sister or something. In one episode, a young woman was looking for her father (I guess she grew up with her mother) and after searches around the world, they found him. They showed how they drove on the roads with mountains around them and they filmed the fathers house that was right by the water with dolphins jumping in the ocean in the background. I thought it was the most magical place I’ve ever seen. Kauai Island. I looked it up, as I didn’t know where that was. I found that picture of the waterfalls and it’s been one of my dreams since.
I can’t believe that I’m going there. Aaaahhhh!! I thought Disney World was huge, but this feels bigger. This is something I’ve been spending time thinking about, in detail, how it would be to go there. Disney was a dream that came back every now and then since I was a kid, but Kauai has been on my mind far more often and I have more feelings attached to it.