We went to Hawaii at the end of August and had an amazing vacation. Brett had work (1 day meeting & 2 days surfing in a contest at Queens with only 5 guys out, hard I know!) so we made a family vaca out of it. We were spoiled, upgraded to a beautiful room, beach boys had a spot for us everyday, able to jump on the outrigger and catamaran, access to surfboards & sup's, lots of yummy food, fun surf and warm water!
View from our room!
Hanging on the lanai.
Came to be part of Oceanfest and celebrate Duke's Birthday!
Having a board meeting!
TOP 10 THINGS WE LOVED DOING IN HAWAII!!
1. SURF (OF COURSE)
Layne at Baby Queens!
Layne & Tia
Layne & Tia tandem.
Early morning and these girls are ready to play!
Layne on a shortboard!
Layne
Me & my favorite surfer girl!
Malia and Layne
Local boy helped the girls learn to carry their boards together!
So cute!
Daddy getting a right at Queens during his heat!
Paddling out to Pops with Gloria (Sorry no photos of anyone surfing except Layne, too far of a paddle to get action shots!)
2. HANGING WITH FAMILY & FRIENDS!
Best Buddies!
Christian & Layne
The girls and their dolls!
Me & Sarah
Sarah, Annie, Me
Morning time on the lanai.
Brett & Josh
Billy, Annie, Tommy (best beach boy) & Brett
Early morning surf sess!
Christian & his mama!
Layne & Malia
Christian & his BFF!
Love Them!
Ready to go out to dinner!
Christian and his daddy!
Our new friend Taryn!
Layne's 1st time ever wearing floaties to go down the waterslide because she isn't tall enough, funny since she surfed everyday!!!
Layne & Taryn showing their muscles!
Another hard day in paradise!
3. PADDLING THE OUTRIGGER
Ready to go!
Christian surfing a wave next to us!
So much fun!
4. BOAT RIDES ON THE CATAMARAN
The Barnes Fam
So much fun with the Morgan fam!
Cute booties!
Daddy and his girl!
Mommy and her boy!
5. SMOOTHIES
These kids had so much fun drinking smoothies all day & just putting them on dad's tab!
Yummy!
Duke's best smoothies!
Cuties!
Another smoothie???
6. SUP-ing
Daddy giving the girls a lift!
4 years ago we tried SUP in Hawaii, now we have 3 boards!
Layne loved snorkeling off the SUP!
7. HIKING DIAMOND HEAD
Fun Family Hike
Climbing the stairs
Tunnel
More stairs!
At the top!
Amazing view & got a beautiful rainbow to go with it!
Christian & I doing a little trespassing!
8. LAYNE MAKING A LEI
She did an awesome job!
9. LUAU
Got to ride in a limo taxi, the girls thought it was so cool!
Luau is at the aquarium.
Hanging with Gloria.
Love these girls!
Love my hubby!
Walking back to the hotel.
10. THE FUN & MEMORIES WE HAD AS A FAMILY
This was truly an amazing vacation. It was so fun watching my kids get better at surfing and enjoy the lifestyle we have as a family. Loved all the memories we created and the new friendships as well. Looks like we might be going again next year, can't wait!
3 comments:
Nice work on updating the blog!! Hawaii looks so fun! The last time I updated my blog was for our trip to Utah to visit Jeff and Tiffany (did you see that one?) so since I'm up early I'm going to see if the process really is easier and do some updates myself =).
wow love the pictures what camera was that? such fun
Wowee!! you guys are so lucky. I have never been to Hawaii! I would love to go. Maybe before I am 40, I will make it out there.
OK- Have fun! :)
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