Brighter Than Sunshine.

voltee ♦ April 5, 2012 ♦ 2 Comments

Item: Tee-shirt Color/Fabric: Sunshine, cotton Designer: Rebecca Beeson Where Purchased: TJ Maxx Years Owned: Three

Tonight, I am pondering a tee. This isn’t just any tee. It’s my Sure-Pack Vaycay tee.
Finding a wonderful tee that is classic and special at the same time, and that fits, well, to a tee, is a rare and wonderful thing. When I find such a tee, I’m sure to pack it for many a vacation. I will inevitably reach for it on days when chilling is the only item on the agenda. Or when making a quick jaunt to an emergency room. Or on times when Nate makes me get out of bed before the sun rises.
I have never been a sunrise kind of girl. I do, you know, think they’re beautiful and inspiring. However, I also really enjoy looking at pictures of them.
So when the time comes to actually get out of bed at 5am, I will most likely mumble something like, “Can you take a picture of it and show it to me at like 10:15?”
It’s a vacation. My first priority is always going to be Adventuring. But a very close second has to be Sleeping. And whenever possible, I like my Adventuring to interfere with my Sleeping as little as humanly possible.
And it seems like I went from one vacation sunrise pusher, my father, to another, Nate. Nate was up at sunrise almost every day when we were in Hawaii. It was really rather nauseating.
Then he said, “Kerry, you have to experience at least one Hawaiian sunset in your life!”
And I agreed. But that didn’t mean I was happy about it!
Here’s an attempt at pretending to frolic joyously in the golden glow of a tropical sunrise:

Here’s what I really was feeling inside (and Nate is just making fun of me):

Looking back on this day, I would say without hesitation that if there was a chance that I could be back on that lava-rock strewn beach with the waves crashing all around me and the scent of plumeria on the breeze and all I needed to do was get up every day before the sun, I would do it in a heartbeat.
And I would smile!
After my coffee, of course…
Oh, and if any of you were curious as to my emergency room statement above, I did bring this tee to a family trip to Florida this past fall. There was an incident involving faulty engineering, a high wind advisory, an energetic nephew, a doting grandfather, a teeny unhappy niece, two screen doors, a balcony, a luggage cart full groceries, my hand, and a really really heavy door.
Oh, also some tears, blood, and swearing (although restrained due to said nephew and niece).
As a result, I have two little scars on one finger and a smashed sterling ring.
Now that’s an Adventure!