This past month, we caught a ride on one of the best direct flights you can take from Sacramento’s airport: At 9:30 am, you’re in the air. And by 11:30 Hawaiian time, you’re in Maui. Our entire week was a most-generous gift from Aron’s parents, who had chosen to fly the whole family out for a vacation together (Aron’s parents would arrive with his sister and her family a few days after us).
We flew with Hudson’s car seat once again, but it’s starting to put him awfully close to the seat in front of him (he’s a tall 2-year-old). Still, love that he falls asleep in it, and we love that we can relax knowing he’s strapped in if we do. Besides, we’d be bringing it along anyway for the car rental.
We were booked for eight nights at the Marriott Ocean Club on Ka’anapali beach. From the airport, it’s roughly an hour’s drive.
There’s a wonderful (if expensive) fruit stand on the way to Lahaina and Ka’anapali—around mile marker 15 or so. I’d wager there are better deals to be had elsewhere, but I must admit we didn’t find them. Food in general is expensive on the islands.
We brought some papayas, mangoes, passion fruit, bananas, avocados, and limes back to our hotel to snack on throughout the week. Ask for help picking the ripeness for the day you wish to eat it, and be sure to take them up on the offers for samples (especially of the coconut candy, which I still regret not buying).
(waterproof to 50 ft, as well as immune to a host of other things)—and since we bought it with diving and beach-going in mind, it especially made us laugh to discover pet mode!
My friend, the lovely Samantha Hahn, just published a book filled with her gorgeous watercolor portraits. Check out Well-Read Women
. Congratulations, Samantha!
And Kera, a longtime online friend, started a beautiful new business called Interwoven—full of artisan textiles from far-off places. She has amazing taste!
I contributed a truth, tip, and find to the site 3 Things for Mom.
And gave an interview about travel here. (Find more on the trips I reference—India, Vermont, and Italy, for example—in Travelogues.)
We came home and realized we need more lighting in the house. Love these pendant lamps by artist Heather Levine. (I wish we’d brought home more copper ones from Bali!)
Call it bohemian and it’s likely I’d love it. I think this does it: I’m going to tag my aspirational home style (Californian) Bohemian Modern. Let’s see if that self-awareness helps me to finish anything in the house.
Ikea rooms without the price bubbles. They’re so lovely!
Allie Lehman and David Sherry started a new site for bloggers in need of free, high-res, beautiful images, called Death to the Stock Photo.
I found this post, “Saying Good Riddance to the Clean-Plate Club” intriguing. (And mildly reassuring.) Parents of picky eaters… something to think about. There are some good ideas in the comments section, by the way.
I can’t get over this: the David Hotson Architecture group designed an 80-foot slide inside a New York City penthouse, called Skyhouse, to take residents from the attic (where a hole is cut into a vertical glass partition) to the ground floor, four levels down.
The whole place is incredible—the views alone are enough to make your jaw drop, nevermind that there’s also a 50-foot climbing wall on a central beam that extends up from the living room and a stainless steel slide! The building itself dates to 1896, a beaux-art skyscraper with a dramatically pitched roof, but you’d never know it from the interior.
Can you imagine?! The designer notes that guests have the option of using yellow cashmere blankets to speed-up the ride down. I guess if it’s too much, you always have to the the option to get off on the third floor. Eek!
