Luke and Ryan had a great time getting thrown around in the waves. Gina was quick enough to capture this on the camera. It totally cracks me up.
She then got the aftermath of that wave after it crashed over Luke.
He is in there some where!!!! Both guys got totally smashed that day but had enough fun that they kept going right back in the waves. We were good wives and took pictures of their fun and the beautiful scenery.
One of the days we split up and the girls went to the Sealife park and the guys got ROASTED while playing in the ocean.
We decided to do the Royal Swim encounter with the dolphins. I wasn’t to sure I actually wanted to get in the water with a BIG fish but decided I would mostly for the sake of saying I had and to show Micali pictures of her mom with a dolphin. With the Royal Swim encounter we were able to cradle the dolphin in our arms, give it a kiss, then do a double fin swim and a foot push. The two rides with the dolpins were kind of scary because as the dolphins were coming up behind you it was impossible to know where they were and they just snuck right up. The dolphin I kissed was in the movie 50 First Dates and part of that was filmed here.
We also were able to see a couple dolphin shows while we were there. It really was quite impressive to see how well trained they were.
This part of the island was so pretty. The background of the dolphin show was just breathtaking. The beautiful color of the water and all the green.
This night was quite eventful. We traveled all day to finally make it to Hawaii. We arrived to wonderfully warm weather, met up with Ryan and Gina and got our UGLY gold convertible. I wish we had a picture of all four of us in the car with the top down and luggage stacked on top of us. We checked into our house and decided to go get a bite to eat. The first restaurant we tried was closed but the people that were eating outside told us we should go home and watch the news. We just thought they were making fun of us for some reason. We found another place close and ordered our food. She ended up bringing us our ticket before we even got our food and told us they were closing because of the Tsunami warning. We quickly ate our food and did go home to watch the news. People started calling to make sure we had heard about it and to check in on us. Our nice landlady reassured us that everything would be just fine. Then the fire truck went by with his sirens blaring and saying on the loud speaker to “EVACUATE TO HIGHER GROUND. YOU ARE NOT SAFE IN YOUR HOME.” We decided to head over to the grocery store for some breakfast food since all we had was our water bottle and protein bars plus a few snacks from the plane.
The grocery store was CRAZY busy and the check out line was wrapped around the store. We decided to forget it and that if we were still there in the morning we would find something to eat then. This was around 10 and the Tsunami was suppose to hit at 3 in the morning. We continued watching the news and although our trusty landlord Nestor was sleeping soundly in bed and promised to bring out the ladder to help us get on the roof if things got bad by about 1:00 we decided we should trust the warning sirens and head for higher ground. The road was just packed with people on both sides. We camped in our car and got hardly any sleep. Four people in a little Mustang made our sleeping arrangements more like a steamy sauna.
We listened to the radio and found out by about 3:30 that not much had happened and thought then we would be headed home soon for some nice sleep. Well the road ended up being closed until 8:30 in the morning just to be on the safe side. We finally made it home about 8:45. We decided not to sleep our first day in Hawaii. That would be quite the waste. So we went to find breakfast and the rest of our adventures started! Although we were a little zombieish we still had a great day!
The kids love helping me sort the clothes. I wash all the clothes in one day and then at night the kids help me put them in piles. After they go to bed I fold them neatly. In my opinion it works better that way. Micali asks me why I messed up her perfect piles.
Eli was playing the ipad and just couldn’t stay awake any longer.
I think she liked her first experience with spaghetti sauce.
I gave her the bowl and she just put it right up to her mouth and hoped it would fall into her mouth.
Abigail got everyone up way to early this day. I was hopeful that we could still skip naps and go to bed early---not so.
An impromtu picnic/slumber party they set this up all by themselves and even helped themselves to the Pringles. I love it when they play so nicely together.
