{"id":3699,"date":"2018-10-09T00:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T00:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/?p=3699"},"modified":"2020-11-19T19:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T19:34:43","slug":"back-from-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreamweddingshawaii.com\/back-from-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"BACK FROM VACATION! Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, California!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Beale-StreetLook at my round face!\u00a0 Fat from all that BBQ!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Two weeks, five States, two college football games, BBQ ribs, and 17 pounds later – Now that’s a vacation!<\/span><\/h1>\n

I’m not sure when is the last time I took a vacation.\u00a0 You know this probably better than I do, but a “trip slash vacation” that had absolutely NOTHING to do with business.\u00a0 Every recent trip that I’ve taken, there was always some business reason to travel, some excuse to write it off.\u00a0 Whether it was to\u00a0do a wedding, check out an investment, or to attend some type of conference\/expo.<\/p>\n

For this trip, the only thing on my agenda was to watch my first SEC game and to get extremely fat eating BBQ ribs!\u00a0 I had a blast.<\/p>\n

No wonder people take vacations.\u00a0 LIGHT BULB!<\/p>\n

The idea for this vaycay started a few months ago when my father suggested we\u00a0watch the Ole Miss – Bama SEC game because\u00a0the two starting quarterbacks were from Hawaii.\u00a0 Tua Tagovailoa and Jordan Ta’amu were born and raised in the State of Hawaii and on our\u00a0island of Oahu.\u00a0 This was a once in a lifetime opportunity because two Hawaii QB’s never faced off in an SEC football showdown; and in my opinion, both quarterbacks were NFL caliber.\u00a0 \u00a0So for the first time in my life, I blocked off two weeks in September and turned down weddings, to make this happen.\u00a0 \u00a0My deepest apologies to all my couples who wanted to hire me!<\/p>\n

The crazy thing about this trip was that about two months before I left for my trip I received a wedding inquiry from a couple, Rick and Pat, who wanted to hire me.\u00a0 To add icing on the cake, they were huge Eagle fans and lived in Memphis, the city where we would be staying in!\u00a0 To add icing on top of the icing, Rick lived on Oahu during a portion of his life and loved it.\u00a0 Of course, we had to meet up for dinner!\u00a0 It was written in the stars.<\/p>\n

\"patrisha-rick-and-family-1024x576<\/a>From Right to Left: Rick, Patricia, My Dad, Mom, then me (the guy with the big head)\u00a0 Outside the famous Rendezvous!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To sum up my entire trip, it was the blast.\u00a0 I would have to say it was one of the best trips I’ve taken in my short life.\u00a0 \u00a0Without further delay, here are some highlights from my trip in\u00a0bullet point format.\u00a0 I thought it would be easier to read that way.<\/p>\n

MEETING RICK AND PATRICIA<\/strong><\/p>\n