Day one of the Hawaii vacation involved much legroom and warm cookies during the first-class ride over (note to American Airlines: if the first class ticket is somehow fewer award miles, don’t even both to offer the economy tickets). Post-arrival activities included some snorkeling with the Skipper and a handful of pretty fishes, followed by a tropical beverage on the beach at sunset. The conversation that led to the tropical beverage being procured was one that gets rarer with each passing year:<\/p>\n
\nRyan: "Can I have a pi\u00f1a colada?"
\nBartender: "You’re twenty-one, right?
\nRyan: "Do you want to see my ID (reaching for ID)?"
\nBartender: "Are you twenty-one?"
\nRyan: "I’m thirty-six."
\nBartender: "That was a pi\u00f1a colada, right?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAaron arrives tomorrow, and we’re staying at a separate hotel from the elder Hollidays in an effort to promote family harmony, and also because the stock market is up 1000 points so a fancy hotel became an option. We booked the super-snazzy resort down the road, and aside from some sticker shock there don’t seem to be any downsides – when you don’t get that much vacation, going big seems like a winning strategy. Scuba appears to be on the schedule for Tuesday (yes, we are for scuba), and undoubtedly many shenanigans will unfold over the coming week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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