On Monday we went to Lanikai Beach. The water was perfectly warm and the white sand was nice and soft. It was a beautiful day on a beautiful beach. It was funny because Kaylana not only refused to get in the water, but she refused to touch the sand too! I found a couple sticks and emptied my McDonald's cup (who brings a bucket and beach toys when flying to Hawaii?) to show Kaylana that it was fun to play with sand. She sat at the edge of the blanket and played with the sticks and cup with the sand, but every time her hand accidentally touched the sand, she immediately would drop everythings and brush the sand off. Even with her beach shoes! It was too cute...wish I had the pictures to show. SIGH...anyhow. After 2 hours of watching other people run around in the sand, she finally got up and started walking in the sand towards these little kids in front of us, then she chased the birds! (Don't mind the background conversation haha)
It was an awesome day. My cousin Jenn was so kind as to let us clean up at her house and we enjoyed dinner with a gorgeous view of Kaneohe Bay. I tell you, it is a beautiful place to live and love, but I just don't think I could do it. Maybe if my family and Rigo's family moved out there too. Haha.
Tuesday we went to the Honolulu Children's Discovery Center (where I lost my camera *sniff*) and Kaylana had a blast! She loved running around all the different exhibits and being able to touch EVERYTHING! The only time I worried was when there were lots of bigger kids that would scramble around the same exhibit and knock Kaylana around. Then Mama Bear had to do some enforcement. J/K. Kaylana lasted a good 2 hours and then was tired so we left right at closing. They close early like at 1pm. We went to Costco so I could get a replacement camera and then went to spend the rest of the day with Grandma. We put pictures on her wall and reminded her of who each person was, to read the scriptures, and how much we loved and cared for her. She was so happy and even walked with us out to our car in the evening. We had dinner at this lil restaurant called Ono's and enjoyed some really good authentic Hawaiian food. Even picked up some malasadas at Leonard's bakery on the way to the hotel. We did laundry and hit the hay for our last day. Doing the laundry was smart cuz then I didn't have to do it at home! Instead I was able to rest haha.
My cousin Janelle has a friend, Rose, who dances at the PCC night show so we were able to go the night before our flight. Since we were going to be out there in the evening we decided to go to North Shore and get some delicious shrimp at the Famous Kuhuku shrimp truck...mmmm coconut and garlic butter shrimp. We went to the temple again and took more pictures and then we went to Laie Point. I wished I had my old camera so I could do a panorama picture because it was beautiful 360 degrees around. The PCC's night show Ha was amazing...I liked it better than the one we saw 3 years ago. The story and dances were just beautiful. We packed up our stuff that night (our last meal in Hawaii was Jack in the Box lol) and in the morning we checked our, returned our rental car, and waited a whole hour to check our luggage. Ridiculous. The flight home was fine, but we felt it would be our last for a long time because Kaylana was restless. Thankfully I had Barney and Sesame Street DVDs and coloring books to keep her occupied. Oh and snacks of course. So yeah...that was our trip! Here are some of the only pictures I have...
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What a marvelous trip. At least you didn't lose your camera on the last day, so you had time to get a replacement camera and at least get some pics.;) The pics you did get are really nice. The one of Kaylana going down the slide is super cute!
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