Wednesday, December 22, 2010

4 Days til Christmas.......Day 13 in Hawaii

Our LAST full day in Hawaii.....

We, of course, spent it at the beach.
It didn't turn out to be the best weather.
It was never sunny. It was always cloudy.
And yes, it did rain on us at times.
BUT we had a great day anyways!

I don't usually let Elissa have bikini swimwear, but I did for Hawaii as a treat.
She was excited.
Our beautiful girl inside and out.

Darin spotted a whale just off in the distance. We saw that the catamaran that we went on yesterday was tracking it. Darin got this awesome picture of the whale breaching.

Cropped in pic of the whale.

There was a huge black cloud that kept on coming toward us. We felt the air get cold and eventually the rain followed. It was cold. I would have gone home, but I wanted the kids to have a full day at the beach so we just stuck it out.




Hang loose!

I love the feel of the sand at Hapuna. It is very fine and soft.
(I love that my pedicure lasted the whole trip!)

We got to Hapuna around 10:30am and left at 2:30pm.
It was a good day, even if the weather wasn't "perfect".

We went home and hung out for awhile and packed a bit until dinner.
We decided to go to The Beach House for our last night (which we did back in 2005 also). It has good food and a beautiful view on the water where we could watch the sun go down.

Our family shot at our Hawaii house.

Our family shot at sunset.


The sun had gone down and the kids were exploring after they were done with dinner.



Then when we got back to the house there was a group of people caroling down the road of Puako on the back of a truck. Fun!

I'm ready to go home and celebrate Christmas with our families.
Zach says he wants to go home everytime he is tired. He is definitely ready too. We are all looking forward to being in our own beds. :-)

It is so nice to be on vacation and it is nice to get back home.

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