Tuesday May 10
Time to hit the road... or I guess air in this case.
Time to get on the plane and head to LAX, then off to Lihue, Kauai!
The flying Pro! He even has Curious George ready for take off
Jared is not quite the pro Chris is... so Chris held his hand during take offs and landings
Taking off in SLC.... heading to LAX
Inflight entertainment.....he's got his own headphones so the whole plane doesn't have to listen to his movies
The boys trying to take a nap on the long flight from LAX to Lihue
Aloha from Lihue, Kauai!!
Can't forget to stop and smell the flowers
After the flight to LAX, then Lihue we were pretty tired. We arrived about 20 minutes early and had to wait for the rest of the party to arrive from Kona and Honolulu. Lucky ducks had already been on the Big Island for 10 days! After all 9 of us got the rental cars and got ALL our stuff loaded up, it was time to head up to Princeville and to the timeshare. The time share was awesome! We had a 3 bedroom/bath condo, so each party got their own room/bathroom, and we shared a living room, kitchen and lanai. We made a quick run to the grocery store for the absolute necessities for the night/morning, and then the 3 of us had to head to bed, we were pretty exhausted. It was only 9pm over there, but 1am in Salt Lake, so we were ready for bed.
Wednesday May 11
Chris, Jared and I were waking up about 3am, which was 7am for us. The others were still fast asleep since they were already on Hawaii time, and not Utah time like us. We managed to hit our internal snooze buttons for about another hour, but it didn't seem to last long.
Chris wanted to sit and hold Lexie... she finally let him and I was able to get this cute pic of the two.
After we all got up and moving and got some breakfast we took my Mom and Bob to go tubing down the river. While they were "fluming the ditch" the rest of us wondered around Lihue for a few hours. We found the Harley Davidson shop so that Jared could get himself a Harley shirt from Kauai. Then we took the little drive up to Wailua Falls.
the trio with the top of Wailua falls behind us.... the little man was pouting, and wouldn't smile for the picture
the boys and a better shot of Wailua Falls
SQUEEZE!!!
Jared, Chris, Lainey, and Mary... Hang Loose!
Wailua Falls
There's the smile!!!
Back at the Adventure place waiting for his Grandma and Grandpa to get back
cute cousins
Thursday May 12
Today we had a Luau scheduled for the evening so we decided to go check out Ke'e Beach and do some snorkeling and swimming earlier in the day.
Jared, Chris and me getting ready to go snorkeling
Chris and Grandma... yes its raining, but no one seemed to care
So cute!!
he wasn't too sure about really getting out there in the water and actually snorkeling. He stayed in the shallow waters and made sure he could stand up or keep a hold of someone.
LUAU TIME
My cutie!
checking out the Imu, with the pig roasting inside
AAWW, Uncle Jared and lil Lexie
waiting for the luau to start
another Imu... probably getting it ready for another luau tomorrow
another goofy pose
standing in front of a replica of the Easter Island statues
getting ready to learn how to do the hula
Everybody Hula!
look at those eyes!
after the hula, the band played the Hawaiian Wedding song, these two saw others dancing so they said they wanted to dance like them too..... it was pretty darn cute!!
end of the luau .... the dancers in all the different costumes for all the different regions. Chris and I love watching the dances... he especially loves the fire dance!
Learning to do the Hula
shaken those hips!
