Welcome to Hawaii - Day 1

Our time clocks were pretty out of wack on our first morning. The girls did really well on the flight over and but they were anxious to get going on our first day. Abby is showing Jerry her picture of the beach. Below is a picture of the girls on the balcony at our condo. We were on the 34th floor so we had an excellent view of the beach. We had to go grocery shopping and get tickets to the attraction we wanted to visit throughout the week. We also went to the flee market and got lost our first day on the island. All in all it was a good day.

Welcome to Waikiki Beach

Day 2

Breakfast in bed and a lazy morning...that what these girls LOVE!

Koolina - Lagoon 3

Bright Light and COLD water

Well we loved how quite and clean the beaches are at Koolina but the water is really cold.

North Shore

We explored the North Shore after going to Koolina Beach. We had some shaved ice and ice cream. We stopped at one of the beaches so the girls could enjoy their treat and swim a little.

Waimanalo Beach - Day 3

Pictures at the beach

We had a professional photographer take our pictures at the beach. After he left we took several pictures of the girls.

Jer and Bran

Hannah took several pictures of Jer and Bran after the photographer left. She did a really good job. It was nice to have our own personal photographer this trip. Thanks Han.
This was on Bellows Air Force Base...there were some beach cottages near by. I guess this is were people who are stationed in Hawaii must vacation. It's really beautiful here!

Ruth's Chris for dinner

Since we were all dressed up we decided to go out to dinner. We were able to go to the newest Ruths' Chris in Oahu. The food was fabulous and the service was fantastic. The picture below is Hannah wrapped up in a table cloth. The waitress noticed Hannah was really cold and got her a table cloth to cover up with.

Day 4

We started off at the flea market today and Olivia was very tired. She had asked us for about the last 30 minutes to please take her to the beach so she could cool off. Abby just wanted a shaved ice and Hannah wanted to shop until her entire family dropped. We almost did but I think we left just in time. We did make it to the beach later and watched the sunset.

Beach Bums

Olivia (above) let us partially bury her in the sand while Abby (below) thought it was quite comfortable to be buried in the sand.

Where did daddy go?

There goes another day!

We had spent the afternoon at the beach, I know hard to believe, and knew we wanted to stay to watch the sunset. I had taken some pictures of a couple on the beach for them and they offered to take our picture. This was Jerry's idea and I think it came out rather cute.

Sunset at Waikiki Beach

I could never get tired of watching the beauty of the sun setting on the horizon over the ocean.

Day 5

Olivia turns 5 on Thursday, April 24. This trip was planned for her and we hope she will have this wonderful memory for life!
Olivia really loved the beach and when we asked what she wanted to do for her day she said, "the beach," and I said, "that's my girl!"
Abby looked so cool and cute with this hat, not suppose to be a swim hat but we used it as such and it kept her from nasty sunburn on the head.
Scary! I figured it wasn't fair to post everyone else being lazy on the beach and not myself.
Jer and Han, they were so happy to have these beach umbrellas to protect and create and nice shade from the sun.