Going to Hawaii, anyway

Even though I didn't win the big trip to Hawaii that I was hoping for in the VE mashup contest, we're going anyway!

Just found out today that I could get the Whistler trip as cash instead ($1500), so I applied that toward a trip to Hawaii that Laurel and I had been thinking about taking for Christmas.

We're leaving on Dec. 18, and coming back late at night on Christmas Day (leave HI at 11 p.m. and get to Seattle at 6 a.m. the next morning, so we'll really be spending XMas in HI).

We're staying at the Hilton.

So, if you're sending us XMas gifts, send them early or send them late, but don't send them during the week before, unless you're shipping them to Hawaii! ;-)