Thursday, October 29, 2009

Our Hawaii trip

I've had so many people ask me to put our trip on the blog. It will be longs so I'll do it in sections according to days.

We went on a 7 day cruise on Norwegian cruise line starting in Oahu. It was such a fun vacation with so much to see and not enough time.

Day 1 Saturday

We went a day later than most of Ken's family because I couldn't leave the kids for longer than a week. We got into Hawaii a few hours before the deadline to get onto the boat. We hung out for the rest of the night eating, exploring the boat and talking. Everyone was assigned an island or a stop with activities or excursions planned. It work out nice so we weren't sitting on the boat everyday trying to decide what to do. We also didn't have to worry about where to eat which made it less stressful, hop onto the boat and eat.

If you look to the left of this picture, you will see a very secure woman getting out of the pool. There were a lot of these woman, i was not one of them.
Day 2 Sunday

We docked in Maui in the morning and were off the boat by 10. We rented 3 jeeps for the next 2 day we spent there.
After renting the jeeps we drove south to Makena, snorkeled, boogie board and relaxed.


We left after a few hours and went for a scenic drive around the west side of the island along the coast. We drove on a small road sometime only large enough for 1 car along cliffs. It was so beautiful but some of us were a little too nervous to fully enjoy the scenery. We stopped at a blowhole called Nakele for some pictures and laughs.
I didn't realize we were in the Kurtz picture so i guess we deserved this.
We headed back to the boat to eat dinner and prepare for the next day.

6 comments:

Melissa Parker said...

Next time don't forget to take us, we will let it go this time! ;) Love you guys and I did get very cute pics of the kids on Halloween I'll post soon...maybe;)

Nikki said...

Oh my gosh, I almost peed my pants when I saw the picture of you guys in the Kurtz picture, and the blow hole drenching you guys!! hahaha, that is SO funny!!

Christina said...

LOL! Ha-Ha!Ha! I agree with Nikki! THAT is HILARIOUS!! GReat job to whoever was taking the pictures! I still can't get over how funny that was. I was thinking to myself how I loved the picture of you and Ken with the back blurred out, and then, I saw that and that totally wins! :)

Brad and Marci said...

I have this huge desire to go on a trip now! I WONDER WHY? :) I am glad you had fun it looks like it was amazing.

Michelle said...

How fun!!! I'm jealous! Looks like you guys had an amazing vacation :)!

Finding Joy in the Moments said...

Life couldn't be more perfect. I think the only thing that (might) have been better is if someone surprised you and Ken by flying your kids to the Island for the last two days so they could experience some of the magic Hawaii has to offer.

You did a great job posting your trip so we could pretend we were there through you pictures.