Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
My sleepy crew was happy to see the Easter bunny visited them on Sunday!
Samantha was especially excited for this urprise…
Can’t wait to tell you all about it! But GJ won Easter when she gave the kids their gifts – European Fanta straight from Paris and POG juice from Hawaii! Perfect!
Thanks Easter bunny!
My Dad passed away 4 years ago. It still seems inconceivable that he is gone. The morning of the anniversary of his death, I had made my coffee and was headed upstairs to wake Samantha up for her soccer game. In a split second, something told me to stop and just sit for a minute. I sat at my spot at the table and looked up and directly in my line of sight was this guy…
He hung around for a minute, flitted around, and then flew off. He stayed just long enough to make sure I saw him.
They say “when cardinals appear, angels are here” and I believe it. Thanks for stopping by Daddy.
In looking for a picture to share, this one seems appropriate…
Not Hawaii but the Polynesian Resort at Disney…a close second! We miss you Daddo.
Friday we got up and had another good buffet breakfast! We then got in a little pool time before heading out for our last adventure…surfing! The kids were excited about it. I was unsure. I ended up doing it and am glad I did…but I don’t need to do it again. ha!
We had a fun instructor who only told us to call him Wave Daddy! He was kind and very patient and we all ended up catching a few waves! The waves were few and far between so there was a lot of waiting in the cold ocean water but it was still fun. Lots of surfing pics…
That night we left the resort to have dinner at Monkeypod. I had been hearing about their pork and pineapple pizza but got there and found out their pizza oven was down! boo. They did have a good mai tai though which made Vacation Robert happy!
We had to wait a while in the cold rain for the car which made us all feel like this…
and then we had to leave the next day! We did get in one last buffet breakfast and a little cabana time before heading to the aiport sad to go…
It was a loooong flight home landing in Atlanta at 7am. We tried our best to sleep but it took me a few days to recover for sure. Worth it? Absolutely.
Mahalo Hawaii! We will be back!!
Another day – another breakfast buffet! A particularly carb heavy morning for Spencer…
After all that eating and boating and golfing, we felt like we deserved a little relaxation and were thankful to get it poolside!
We then went on a little drive to have lunch at Mama’s Fish House. I wasn’t sure what to expect but it was way neater than I thought it was going to be! The food was delicious and I’m so glad we went.
The beach by the restaurant had several enormous turtles on it. We were checking them out and someone politely informed us we were to stay 10 feet away from the turtles…oops!
We got back to the resort and enjoyed sunset on the beach! Absolutely cannot beat that golden hour!
That night we just grabbed a pizza from Ferraro’s and took it easy. Best day.
The kids are living the life!
Boat day!! But first, a walk…
Doesn’t get better than that…but a day on a boat is a close second! We were supposed to go to an area great for snorkeling but it was too windy so we switched it up and looked for whales instead.
It was a great boat with a really nice first mate and captain – who Robert discovered graduated from Hampden Sydney as well! Robert then spent a large portion of the boat ride chatting it up with him about the good ole days! ha!
Living the life!
We even spotted some whales! It was hard to get photos but I did get a great video of a mom and baby whale that came up right next to the boat! So cool!
They also provided lunch on the boat…
The best boat day! We then headed back to the resort and hit up the pool…
At sunset we met Scott for some family photos.
That night we had my favorite dinner of the trip at Ferraro’s at the resort. Best calamari ever…and of course POG juice and mai-tais!!
Hawaii is the best.