Family Vacation

We had a great vacation in Hawaii. We stayed at a beautiful home and our front yard was the beach.

We started off with a little scare, our plane had to turn around and make an emergency landing because of the landing gear. As we were landing we could see all the emergency vehicles driving behind, in front, and beside us. We all deplaned safetly and the airline put us up in the "Greek Isles" hotel. We got to our room at 1:00 a.m. and had to wake up at 4:30 a.m. to catch the new plane at 7:00 a.m., they then told us it wasn't leaving till 11:00 a.m. We were all tired but did finally did fly into Honolulu.

These are the emergency vehicles

The babies were so good and were so ready to do all they could in Hawaii

We went to the Polynesian Cultural Center

Where the men went crazy........dancing

Hunting.....

We almost lost Carrie and Steven, we couldn't find them anywhere...

then we had a great meal.

My little brother, Steve went with us, so he, Carrie, Loren, Danny and I all went scuba diving. Our first two dives were about 35 feet and we saw all kinds of sea life, we swam inches away from a huge sea turtle and saw a stringray. Our last two dives we were able to go 92 feet deep to a shipwreck. It was beautiful and amazing.

This is us ready to go.

This is Danny and I, kneeling on the bottom of the ocean. We had a great time.

We enjoyed going to the Temple, It is in a beautiful setting, with gorgeous grounds and as you look out from the front you see the ocean.

We had shaved ice at the famous Matsumotos shop

We went to Pearl Harbor...

We went to the Dole Plantation...

We went to the waterfalls...

and in Chinatown we saw all kinds of new and interesting things.

We played at the beach quite a lot and Steve had a great experience of swimming with the dolphins. A bunch of them came and swam around him, he could hear their chatter under water and they put on quite a show for us on the beach. They flipped out of the water, did turns and seemed to be having a great time.

We were so glad the babies could come. They get cuter everyday. I can't even say how much we love them. They smile, laugh and provide hours of entertainment. Beka and Danny are the best parents, and we are glad they brought them along.

This is how we all felt at the end of the trip, we tried to see and do as much as we could. We had a great time, Hawaii is beautiful and all the people were very nice. We were so happy to be able to spend the time with our family. We are blessed with such wonderful children, spouses and grandbabies