We found these cute glass bottles at the market last night and filled them with sand for the kids today. We have four hours until the taxi comes to take us to the airport for our red eye flight home. Just enough time for dinner and some last minute shopping.
How wonderful. I hope to collect some of my own there someday. So happy for you that you got some time away in such a lovely romantic place with your man. Anniversary? Save travels, Kim!!!
a sweet idea! I used to use film containers...but guess what? I forgot to mark them!!! duh! now I have a zillion containers of sand and no idea which beach!!!
Sorry, I'm being silly but I am thinking of those T-shirts that say "My parents went to Hawaii and all I got was this T-shirt." Only yours got sand. Sorry, I couldn't resist. I have a weird sense of humor. Hope the trip home was uneventful.
Perfect bottles of sand for your memories too....must have been a wonderful break for you both but you wil be ready to get back to family & that fab house!
@amandal It's our anniversary in June. It was just a spontaneous trip for the two of us. We both missed the kids though @joansmor We have similar humour. I actually thought the same thing! The kids were surprisingly excited about their little jars!! I wasn't expecting their reaction.
@vickisfotos Sorry to laugh, Vicki! But your random sand in little black containers story is priceless. At least you have the sand!
@maggiemae The sand made it through security, customs and immigration without a hitch and the kids were excited by the gift...that part surprised me the most.
Perfect present ! I use to bring sand from everywhere I've been....and I collect also crystal bottle I fill with it.... Hawaii is not part of my collection yet...
Wonderful idea! Once in a design magazine I saw this beautifully appointed, minimalist house where they had a shelf with bottles filled with sand from all the different places that they had visited....they were all the same size and labeled very discreetly, but the sand was all different colors. I tend to bring shells, pebbles and corals from the beaches, but as with @vickisfotos I would forget to label them and ended up with a medley that now fills up vases! Oh, and there was a beach with black sand in Maui where I was tempted to collect sand to bring home, but then I read that it was bad luck and gave up!!
@joansmor We have similar humour. I actually thought the same thing! The kids were surprisingly excited about their little jars!! I wasn't expecting their reaction.
@vickisfotos Sorry to laugh, Vicki! But your random sand in little black containers story is priceless. At least you have the sand!