Birthday Flowers

My Birthday flowers from Mike

I love Sunflowers

I love Mike

I love growing old with him

I love my life.

Life Is Better With You

The Hubby surprised me with a little 4 day/3 nights get-away to Florida.
The occasion?
Our 23rd year anniversary.

The real BIG Surprise was that it was for a MICHEAL BUBBLE concert!!!

Before I knew what the event was, Mike tried to pretend it was some geek
convention or a football game.
Right!
A few hours before I found out what it was, he casually asked me
"Who would you love to see in Concert?"
My response was without hesitation:
"Micheal Bubble... or the Beatles."
To which he replied: "The Beatles are dead!"
Me: "I know, but a knock off group would be fine I guess..."

[He must have been grinning from ear to ear hearing me say that!]

When I found out that we were going to see Bubble, I was so excited!
To top it all and make the evening even more special, Bubble sang
" ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE"
I got all chocked up!

Bubble is awesome on stage and put on an unforgettable show!

We did a little shopping, caught up on sleep, and the most unpleasant part of the week-end
was going to a mandatory Time Share presentation (part of the affordable getaway)
It ended up being way longueur than expected (normally 90mn).
Not with Mike it's not.
It was the longest EVER! Like 6 hours long!!!
I hated those!

Before the concert, we checked out one of the popular Florida beaches.
Somewhere near St Pete's, Tampa area...
We walked along the jetty and along the beach.
I took too many pictures and made Mike walk too much! :)
But he owed me for that time share presentation!

No swimming today, I didn't want to re-shower in some yucky beach bathrooms.
We were going strait to the concert since we were too far from our room.

Love these cute umbrellas!
Little merchants were set up all along the jetty,
the colorful umbrellas protects them and their stuff from the winds.

I recently found this cute song. 

One of my favorite sayings since Mike texted me
"Life is better when I get to spend it with you"
a while back. I shortened it to life is better with you,
and will make another one with his original quote and post it too...

One of those little thoughtful & memorable words spoken by someone you love 

that makes you feel oh so special and cherished!

And even though we have some great-days, okay-days and some lets-forget-days;

Our Last Day

Today was our last full day in Hawaii. We did what Mike wanted to do!

He didn't get much rest with all the places we had to see, the snorkeling to do and things to discover.

I pretty much chose where to go, when, almost this whole trip.

So I said to Mike: 

"This is your day, I will do what you want and not complain or suggest something else"... 

It was hard at times to keep my mouth shut!

So what did we do? You ask?

We slept in.

We ate lunch at our place. 

Packed.

Did laundry.

We did nothing relaxed until 3pm. 

We left our place to take a stroll on Waikiki beach, took a little dip in the water.

We watched the parade and had dinner watching the Sunset.

Yep, that was it. 

It was nice and romantic...

 An Asian couple were taking wedding pictures on Waikiki Beach. 

I guess it's a popular wedding spot!

 Mike, being nice. If you can't tell this is his 'are-you-done-taking-pictures-yet-because-i-am?' face.

People lock up their surf boards right by the beach! 

Some of these were HUGE!

And the Sunset was lovely.

Heart, Love & Manta Rays

We found a little black sand beach one evening. 

We were on our way to a big beach resort, 

the Sheraton Resort to have dinner and watch the Manta Rays.

It was Perfect for our last night on the island!

After dark the sea side restaurant shines bright lights in the ocean waves attracting plankton and 

HUGE manta rays come and graciously feast. 

None of my pictures or videos could do justice to their beautifully rhythmic dance.

4 of them came tonight.

A group of young buys and girls braved the rocky shore and dove in to swim with them! 

Oh how I wished I had my snorkel gear with us in the car...

I probably would have dove in too...