Hawaii

These pictures are not in order of how our days on our trip went. Blogger is frustrating me today and having so many pictures to organize is taking forever...so just enjoy our trip in random order.

We took a family trip, just the 4 of us, to Hawaii for 8 beautiful days. Right now Im going through sunshine withdrawls and wishing we were back in Hawaii as I type this. We stayed ina beautiful hotel in downtown Lahaina and drove around to see lots of beautiful sights. This first picture was at our hotels pool. We spent lots of time in the water and soaking up vitamin D.

These cute little guys were all over the place!

My 3 favorite men on a boat for a sunset dinner cruise.

Eli says thumbs up to Hawaii.

What a beautiful sunset! I could handle seeing these every night.

Family picture on the sunset cruise. Poor Zach slept for the first hour, so he's not so photogenic in this shot.

See the little black sticking up? That was a baby and mamma whale, they kept waving to us on the boat. We went on both a dinner cruise and a snorkel trip, and on both we saw so many whales. A few were so close to the boat, it was breath taking.

My sleepy baby.

We attended a Luau in Kaanapali. We all tried poi (Eli spit it out, I thought it had no taste but felt wierd) and Zach took a fondness to the female dancers whoooting at them throughout the show. When we tell people the story now though, he gets rather embarrased and denies doing so.

Eli having a starring contest with his coconut drink. The two couples next to us found Eli very funny.

Zach enjoying a tasty beverage at the luau.

Family shot at the Luau

At Bubba Gumps Shrimp resturaunt they had a bench with Forests shoes briefcase and box of chocolates. The shoes were so big on Zach, there was no running involved.

But when Daddy sat down, he was a runnin'

The shrimp at the resturaunt was testing my patients when taking a picture. This is one of about 20 shots I took. The kids kept yelling SHRIMP as I snapped the shot, and the darn shrimp would cover their eyes. This is the ONLY shot where their faces were not covered. Crazy shrimp.

Another beautiful sunset.

So on a little hike to the blowhole, THIS is the path we should have taken. Beautiful and easy going right?

Well leave it up to us...we took THIS route on accident instead and billy goated it for a good hour longer than neccesary. We were exhausted.

A beautiful scenery shot.

Turtles!!!

Dragons teeth. We had to cross a major golf course to get here and were afraid we were going to get hit in the head by a ball. But it was well worth the risk.

This is one of my favorite shots of the trip. Eli made this in the sand and I thought it was so cute.

I was so proud of both the boys. They were both snorkel freaks by the end of the week. They both got out in the ocean and saw some amazing fish. They cracked us up in their gear though. Eli made this really odd sound all the time, and Zach talked through his tube.

By the end of the trip they had both mastered swimming and were little fish.

Shaved ice at the Banyon tree. Yum yum

Portions of long ago forts.

The Banyon tree.

We love you Hawaii, and are already looking foward to seeing you again someday!

(I have some snorkeling pictures also that I will add in later to a new post. I havent downloaded them just yet. Fun, although they didnt turn out as great as I had hoped.)