My sister invited me to join her husband and kids on a trip to Hawaii. It was my first time and it was a blast. My first time getting drunk happened on this trip thanks to Midori Pina Coladas on a sunset cruise, woo hoo!!.
This is Krissy, Anne, Stacie and Mark in the background on the Sugar Kane Train in Maui.
Here's me and my buddy Rob doing what we did best; looking at maps trying to figure out where the hell we were. Shelley is taking this picture of us outside the White House. This was my first experience with Buddy Passes. Oh so much fun flying stand-by, across country on America West.
My second trip to Hawaii was with Sarah, where we stayed on Maui for a week. Shelley joined us for a few days as well and we had such a great time. Unfortunately our trip home SUCKED! Our flight was delayed 12 hours due to a mechanical problem, which the airline never told us about until 7 hours into the delay. No more Hawaiian Airlines for me.
This is me in line, see how happy I am.
My first trip to Florida. Actually Shelley and I had to fly to Atlanta first, then drive to Orlando as America West, at that time, didn't fly to Orlando and ATL was the closest destination. ANYWAY, it was a blast. Everything went great.
Shelley got picked to be in one of those wandering minstral's shows at Epcot at the Italy pavilion. It was hysterical! Volare, ohhhhhh!
My friend Wendy went to Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL so I decided to visit her for a few days that summer. This was my first time in Chicago, and we had a fun filled time.
Here I am with Shelley (who came along for the ride) and Wendy in front of Buckingham Fountain. In case you're wondering, Shelley works for America West Airlines and we did alot of travelling as she got to go for free and bring people for next to free.
My dad died in August of this year, so I needed a major get away trip. Rob and I decided to go to Florida, do Disney World and Cape Canaveral. Here's Rob standing near the Saturn 5 rocket that got our astronauts to the moon. My dad actually was a reliability engineer for Rocketdyne, the company that built these engines. Yay dad!!