Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Hawaii

Jord and I just spent eight Tate-less days with his family in Oahu...and it was fabulous! I missed my Tater, but it was so great to get away and not have a 2 year old whining and clinging to me the whole time. And he had much more fun anyway staying here with my mom and Meg all week--he had lots of people to play with!
We did everything from cliff jumping, snorkeling, and cave swimming; to Pearl Harbor, movie tours at Kualoa Ranch, and FOUR HOURS at the flea market. We had so much fun...

These were the grounds at the condo we stayed at in Ko'Olina

Pearl Harbor

Waimea Beach where we cliff dived and went cave swimmingTy, Josh and Jord in the cave. It was so fun, you'd get sucked in and spun around, then spit back out. I jumped in shortly after this just in time for a big wave to smack my head into the ceiling of the cave.

Me and Chace at Sea Life Park

Jord skim boarding on our beachKualoa Ranch was the coolest place. It's thousands of acres of land, and lots of movies and tv shows are filmed there. So we got to take a tour of some of the places--like Jurassic Park, Pearl Harbor, 50 First Dates, and the show Lost. This was the famous tree where they hide from the T-Rex...After the movie set tour we got to take ATV's out and ride all over the ranch--it was beautiful! This is Jord getting ready to go..Me, Kallee, and Sis after driving the ATV's. Ya, that's not a tan--it's dirt. We were filthy after getting off those!

I was so excited to come back and see Tate, but I am now going through post-vacation depression. I just want to go back and lay on the beach.

9 comments:

megan thomas said...

ah, the post vacations blahs. It'll pass. You'll vacation like that again in say oh...10 years or so. We loved having Tater. He really was an angel, even if he can't keep his uncles straight!

Britney said...

How fun! Great pictures.

Alesha said...

SO FUN! live it up while you only have one to pawn off. I keep thinking "we didnt really do anything fun without koen and now we are gonna have another one to try and pawn off." Kids are great but vacation seems SO much better without them. haha

Allyson said...

You guys did a ton of stuff! Glad you had fun! Coming back from a vacation is the worst, life always seems a little harder after one!

KIM {POPPY SEED PROJECTS} said...

So fun! Hawaii is awesome, especially without any kids to cart around :) Glad you had a good time!

The Loves said...

four hours was not enough, I still had to go back and get another jersey. curse you for finding it. He has worn them everyday this week. We still wished tater would have came with us.

Anonymous said...

How fun...I am so jealous!!! I so need a kid-free vaca!!!

Steve said...

You are bastards.

Ann said...

Looks like you had a fabulous time. I'm so jealous. Sigh.