Happy Birthday Jessica!!! My 31st birthday is in 2 days I have to say, I loved 30 I hope 31 is as good as 30 was to me

Maui is fun, be sure to get some snorkeling in. Maui has some really good snorkeling tours.

Happy Birthday and enjoy your trip(s)!!!

Happy Birthday Jess! I hope you have a great trip, lucky girl. And fun at your friend's wedding.

Don't sweat the turning 30 thing. It's just a number. I turned 31 recently and honesty, I agree with the above it's very anticlimactic! I've always heard too that the 30's are the best and just think you'll being coming into your sexual prime!!!!! That's a plus right?

Aloha, Jessica, and Hau'oli la hanau (happy birthday) (you can find anything on the www). Have a great time in Hawaii and Cincinnati.

I'm 29 from here on in, heh heh.

I can't even remember my 30's Seriously! But I can tell you so far my 50's have been great. Have a great trip, Jessica. Looking forward to the pictures.

Have a good trip! It's my birthday next week too, but I'm only turning 28 so I get to avoid the 30 stress for another 2 years. Your 30s will be as good as you make them

GJ, have a wonderful time in Hawaii!! What a great way to celebrate your birthday. I recall my 30s as being pretty darn good actually, but that's recalling them from quite a distance.

Actually, you can start doing what I do. This year I celebrated the 24th anniversary of my 29th birthday.

I fled to England there weeks before I turned 30!!! I was traumatised by the whole thing, and hated being thirty.

However, four years on, my thirties are fantastic, I am getting my life sorted, meeting new people, getting loads more confidence, not to mention losing weight!!!

If I thought turning thirty would have been so fab, I would have skipped my twenties entirely

So enjoy it!!!! Be thirty and love it!!!!

Your 30's are great! I've really enjoyed them. I'm turning 36 next tuesday so I'll raise a drink to you!

My 30's were a painful time for me in alot of ways, but every event, whether negative or positive, made me who I am today. If I only knew then what I know now.....

It looks like my 40's are shaping up to be something much better than my 30's. Maybe life DOES begin at 40!

Anyway, Happy Birthday, Jess! Enjoy your trip!

30 was hard for me, for a variety of reasons. Somehow, I think sitting on the beach with the Cute Boyfriend ("I'm Jessica's boyfriend...and I'm cuuuuuute!") with an umbrella drink in Hawai'i will make it sting a bit less.

I think it's today, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY GODDESS JESSICA!!!!!

Have a wonderful birthday and trip. Looking back from 60 (ack), I'm not sure I remember my 30's.

I'm turning 30 this year! I have spent all of my 20's fat and I hope to lose at least 50 pounds by my 30th birthday. Hmmm, I didn't think about moping around so that my man would take me somewhere so you just gave me a great idea heheheheh. Have fun in Hawaii!

Jessica, happy birthday, beautiful girl.

As for advice -- well this is how I look at it (on the good days! ): I am so proud of, and grateful for, so many of the experiences I've had throughout my life. Those experiences, and all that I've seen and heard and felt and done and all the rest of it -- those experiences, all the crazy days and the amazing years and most of all the precious MOMENTS! -- well all of it has made me the loving, thinking and complex woman I am today. So why would I lament the accumulation of those days? Ok, so I've grown to seriously agree with those old farts who believe that youth is wasted on the young..... ......but damn, I wouldn't trade in my life.

So I say you CELEBRATE your life every year on that day you first drew breath and opened up your lungs to scream! Celebrate yourself on that day and a bunch of other ones too -- 30 means you are now beginning to realize your power and your strength because you've had an opportunity to be well tested and surprised by your impressiveness, and you have enough perspective to recognize your value if you take the time to open your eyes and really look.

Jessica, you're an amazing, vibrant, wicked smart and drop-dead gorgeous woman.....and 30 is chump change for someone like you. You are magnificent.

You're freaking SHE-RA!

Enjoy.