aloha!

After our first day of successful renovations, we decided we deserved a break. Here's Aaron enjoying some refreshing coconut water. In Hawaii.

Yes, right before we bought a house, we booked a two week vacation to Hawaii. Because really, who buys a house in January?  And even if you buy a house, don't you have a few months before you actually move in?

Not for us. Our timeline went something like this: book a trip to Hawaii, buy a house two weeks later, move in three weeks after that, leave the country one week after that.

If we had known we were going to buy a house with a February possession date, we probably wouldn't have booked a trip to Hawaii. So we're really glad we didn't know . . . because we would have missed out on a fantastic trip. We swam at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, hiked through Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the Big Island, and watched whales from the balcony of our condo in Maui. All while escaping the coldest weeks of Winnipeg winter.

Then we came home to this:

Yes, that is our bed in the living room. Apparently houses in the 1950s were not built to accommodate queen sized beds, because our box spring wouldn't fit up the stairs no matter how hard we tried.

As for everything else, we couldn't really unpack until we had re-finished the floors, drywalled the living room ceiling, and painted. It would be another three months before all that was done.