What I'll Miss

• Swimming "laps" in the ocean - the taste of salt water, the buoyancy, the fishies swimming along, the swells and waves, and the view looking back at the beach.
• Walking out of a freezing cold grocery store to the comfort of the humid, warm evening air.
• Rainbows.
• Anticipating the sunset.
• Looking out the conference room at work and immediately knowing the ocean conditions.
• Ramen soup.
• Lilikoi anything and everything.
• A closet full of sundresses and still not enough.
• A legitimate reason to own more than two bathing suits, many many more than two.
• As embarrassing as it is to admit it, a few cheese-ball Hawaiian songs.
• BBQs in the park.
• Camping at the beach.
• Trade winds.
• Wonderful genuine friends.
• A few Hawaiian words that seem to express more than their English translations.
• Maui Brewing Company beers in cans.
• Our trash chute.
• Smell of plumeria trees and ginger stalks.
• The perfect blue colors of the ocean.
• Rainbows on my license plate and my drivers license.
• Hawaiian blessings.
• The kiss-on-one-cheek greeting.
• Discovering sand on my feet hours after I returned home from the beach.
• Lei.
• Banyan trees. "Umbrella" and "Monkey Pod" trees too.
• Shave Ice.
• Bumping into friends at the bar, the beach, the bagel place, and nearly everywhere in between.
• A flower behind my ear. But I can still pull that off, right?