Hawaii Part 2

Here's the thing about Hawaii. EVERYONE DRIVES SUPER SLOW. I wish I were kidding. The highest speed limit we saw was 55. It's almost unbelievable. Does that mean the cars have longer lives??



There's a local place called Tex's that has the yummiest food! And the Malasadas...oh my....I wish I could run and get some now. How I ended up not getting a picture of these delectable doughnut like substances is anyone's guess. Malasadas are like doughnuts but without the hole, but less sweet. Don't get me wrong, they're still decadent delights of doughnutty goodness, but certainly better than doughnuts. They're filled with bavarian cream, pineapple, mango, etc, with a light smattering of sugar crystals. I firmly believe that food can be bliss, and these proved my point.

But the food was excellent too :D







View on the drive to Akaka Falls. I've just never seen anything so beautiful, just off the highway, tucked into the land. It almost seemed sad to me that there was
a man made road right through all this beauty.



Taken from my car window so its a bit blurry:)



Gasp! A picture of me:) And of course, Brittnee can never resist bunny ears. You have no idea how many pictures she's done this in. :D









Again. GASP. Could there actually be TWO pictures of me?









Akaka Falls was unbelievably gorgeous!! Minus the mosquitos of course:) I ended up with 6 bites. And that was just on ONE leg.





Doug and Brittnee running up the stairs. This might not seem like a big deal, but these stairs were never ending, and they were straight up. Doug asked me how I was doing and I said "Fine. Why?" He just smiled. Maybe he heard me trying to conceal my heavy breathing.



Don't we look enthused? There was a Hawaiiaan lady there selling her husband's art work. We were taking a breather and she seized the moment:)



There are some huge, and I mean HUGE Banyan trees. Their trunks looked like smaller trees wrapped up and entwined around each other to make one tree. Absolutely incredible. This particular one we found had a hole you could crawl into that leads to the jungle floor. So super cool!





In case you were wondering, Doug's brother and girlfriend went with us. Just in case you were wondering:) We had a so much fun with you guys!!



Good grief, there are so many pictures!!! I was hoping to get this done in two posts but it may take a few more.

Stay tuned! If you're still interested. :D

Hawaii- Hapuna Beach

So many pictures, so little motivation to get this post done:) Hawaii was super fun and absolutely gorgeous! How do I not post some pictures???

:D

And maybe I need to remember for posterity sake that I actually went. Seems like a blur. My first time going to the Big Island. Makes me want to go the other ones SOON.



This was the boys first time on an airplane. They were SOOOO excited! Andon's favorite airplane is AMERICAN now, and he writes AMERICAN on every plane he draws.

However, I think I will just do photos of Hapuna Beach right now. Too much of a headache to try to get this all into one post! Brain is hurting just thinking about it. AND, I'm not editing. :)



We loved it here!! The kids loved boogie boarding! These photos are after the first couple times he tried it. If you'll notice in the third picture down his feet are in the air. Yep, he flipped. But he got back on!












Andon enjoying the waves. He's a lot more cautious:)





Another attempt at boogie boarding. Alas...failure again. What a trooper that kid is! Unfortunately, he was done with the boards for the day. :D





The girls loved the boards too.









Doug was trying to help the kids catch some good waves, so he'd give them a push. The facial expressions have me cracking up as I'm looking through these right now.









And there was lots of splashing, and leaping.... trying to run away from the waves that would inevitably break across your ankles anyway. But really, that was part of the fun.











The boys were very content to sit on the beach and wait for the waves to plow over them.











Makes we wish we could go back!