London and Zurich, 2010

Okay, so this is really late, but I went to London, twice this past year. Once in October and again 2 weeks later in November. The second trip my mom tagged along and did her old routine in London town. We had amazing weather (it didn't rain one day) and London as true to it's traditions, was all ready for Christmas.

We had dinner to celebrate my friend Sylvia's birthday in this cute little Italian place in Wimbleton, went to Maytavale and Oxford Circus. Ate at the Mexican resturant in Covant Gardens and then hit the good old Camden Town for some treasures.

We ended the trip in Zurich, and this time it was freezing cold and they were in full swing for the holidays! However, they were being little Swiss stinkers and refused to light the lights until THE DAY WE HAD TO LEAVE! Such a bummer as the tree in the train square was decorated with Swavarski Crystals. Um...yeah?!

Mulled Wine is NOT good, and the weiner schnitzle we finally had. They serve it with this amazing hot mustard that I think mom wanted to buy in bulk and take home with her. Fresh pretzels and lovely chocolate. All in all.. great times.

Hawaii, 2010

As in true tradition of the Page-Thompsons, we decided this year instead of buying lots and lots of presents for each other, we would take a vacation. So, 2 weeks before Christmas, we packed our bags for 10 glorious days in Hawaii! The trip started off with a bang in Honolulu where we joined 40,000 other runners (60% of which were Japanese...go figure) to run the Honolulu marathon. 6 hours later...we were ready to start our vacation!

Honolulu was for 3 days in Waikiki Beach and from there we headed to Maui to finish our last 7 days in a condo down on Waleleau Bay. Minus the condo with no air (who does that in Hawaii?!) and the friendly geekos we boarded with, we had such fun doing absolutely nothing. We did half the road to Hana (the half where you drive up a mountain and for 20 miles do the chicken fight game with other cars on a one lane highway...next to a cliff), sun tanned on beaches (yes, I even got a tan) and drank lots of Kona coffee! We finished our trip with a journey to Waileia and did the traditional Luau. We fell asleep every night to the sound of the ocean (as we were right next to it in our condo) and our last morning we watched the sun rise while a momma and baby whale jumped in the harbor. Almost too good to be true.