Lindsay and Tony in Hawaii

Aloha! Happy Monday morning! We hope everyone had a good weekend.

On Friday night, Russell came over and played Rock Band 2 and Tiger Woods all night long over some delicious Papa John's pizza. (If you are on xbox Live let us know so we can play you!!)

Saturday morning Tony woke up early to meet some of his surfing buddies out in the Ocean - he paddled out to a new break in Waikiki, that is much further out, and said that he had the best surfing day he has ever had. He was out in the water for over 3 hours!! The weatherman are calling for near 60ft waves on the North Shore this week! Lots of surfing competitions have been canceled, and storm shelters have been opened up for residents of the North Shore!!!  After Tony's safe surfing excursion in Waikiki, he came back to the apartment and woke up his sleeping beauty and together we went to the Waikiki Lagoon and relaxed on our floats for a few hours.

Saturday night we went out to dinner with some friends at The Shore Bird. Think Outback meets Melting Pot meets Sizzler, but nicer. There is a nice sized salad bar, which I enjoyed - had sprouts on the bar mmm! Then you pick your meal - which was mostly cuts of steak, Mahi Mahi, or chicken. They bring over the raw meat, which you take over to the grill area and grill up your own meat. They have a big clock, and a board with cooking times. There are different seasonings to flavor your dish. It was interesting. As we were finishing our meals we got the pleasure of listening to the sounds of Karaoke... we left soon after that started!

Yesterday we took it easy, laying around the apartment until mid afternoon. We had to go to Target for some odds and ends, so we decided to stop at the Rooms Hawaii store to look for a desk and a coffee table. No desks but we did find a coffee table we liked... AND it was in the Clearance section!! We got a great deal on a cute coffee table, that we are hoping will match - we know the top is darker than the rest of our furniture, but the price was right! We attempted to fit at 37 x 37 x 16 coffee table in Tony's TL but it just wouldn't budge (duh!) Tony is going to pick it up today and come this evening the living room will be pretty much completed (pictures to come)!! There are no photos or art on the TV wall so I do need to work on that. After Target we made our normal Sunday grocery store run to Safeway.

I have purchased almost all of my Hanukkah presents and we are halfway down Tony's Christmas shopping list! I need to get everything wrapped and shipped today so that it makes our family Hanukkah party on Saturday!

This week is going to FLY by because we are both so excited to have our first guests at Casa de Lindsay & Tony!! Jill and Shannon touch down in Honolulu Thursday afternoon - and as you would expect Tony has a whole list of things planned for when they get here!! Tony took vacation days the whole time they will be here, but you know there will never be enough time to do everything we want to while they are here!

We have not bought our Chrismaka tree yet, but our countdown is working great :)

Lots of new adventures and lots of new pictures to come after this coming weekend with Jill and Shannon!