Malia78
Flotsam and Jetsam
- Joined
- Apr 30, 2012
Hi everyone. My name is Karilynn, I am 37 yrs old, work as Sys Admin in Healthcare Informatics, and claim the title of Disney obsessed among my friends and family. While Disney captures the majority of my interest, my general love of fantasy does branch off in to other things too (LOTR, HP, Star Wars etc.) and I have a very serious collecting habit. My home is 95% percent Disneyfied though I make an exception with my Harry Potter master bath.
Back to this trip, the rest of the traveling party included my parents DM and DD as well as Auntie Ruthie (DA)—an aunt in the Hawaiian sense of the word meaning no relation, just the bond of Ohana. This trip was really geared towards experiencing DVC at a home resort for the first time. DA lived in Hawaii for 25+ years and my parents both lived/worked there in the 70s—DD in the navy and DM doing post grad work at UH. They met and married on the islands and I was born in Honolulu. We left 6 weeks later but we’ve all been back over the years. So all that to say that this wasn’t really a touristy trip—we were really focusing on Aulani and trialing the DVC experience. The title of the report references one of the photopass photographers pose prompts which we replicated several times throughout the trip.
From Seattle, flying to Aulani is equivalent to flying to Orlando so were prepared for the 6 hour flight. It became a much longer day of flying due to head winds—we had to fly to San Jose, refuel, and then embark on the almost 6 hour flight to Honolulu. Needless to say we arrived a little more tired than expected—this also put us right at commute time (Honolulu commute traffic is just as ridiculous as Seattle commute traffic).
We didn’t really do much the first evening so I just have a couple photos from the room. Room rundown: a Deluxe Studio is great for two people; three people can manage well enough; 4 people is pushing the limits. I shared the sofa bed with DA. The room itself was lovely and we had nice view of the lawn in front of the conference center. We were in the IWA tower which DM will request from now on. Since DM and I got to the room first, we had a sneak peek and I may have pocketed the book mark….
Back to this trip, the rest of the traveling party included my parents DM and DD as well as Auntie Ruthie (DA)—an aunt in the Hawaiian sense of the word meaning no relation, just the bond of Ohana. This trip was really geared towards experiencing DVC at a home resort for the first time. DA lived in Hawaii for 25+ years and my parents both lived/worked there in the 70s—DD in the navy and DM doing post grad work at UH. They met and married on the islands and I was born in Honolulu. We left 6 weeks later but we’ve all been back over the years. So all that to say that this wasn’t really a touristy trip—we were really focusing on Aulani and trialing the DVC experience. The title of the report references one of the photopass photographers pose prompts which we replicated several times throughout the trip.
From Seattle, flying to Aulani is equivalent to flying to Orlando so were prepared for the 6 hour flight. It became a much longer day of flying due to head winds—we had to fly to San Jose, refuel, and then embark on the almost 6 hour flight to Honolulu. Needless to say we arrived a little more tired than expected—this also put us right at commute time (Honolulu commute traffic is just as ridiculous as Seattle commute traffic).
We didn’t really do much the first evening so I just have a couple photos from the room. Room rundown: a Deluxe Studio is great for two people; three people can manage well enough; 4 people is pushing the limits. I shared the sofa bed with DA. The room itself was lovely and we had nice view of the lawn in front of the conference center. We were in the IWA tower which DM will request from now on. Since DM and I got to the room first, we had a sneak peek and I may have pocketed the book mark….
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