Hawaii

I FINALLY GOT TO GO "HOME"!!!

We recently took a 7 day trip to the North Shore of Oahu with my Mom and Dad. We stayed right on the beach and the weather was AMAZING (especially for Oct). We basically didn't do much.... but that was the best part :-)

Most of the time we just cooked at the house, but we did go to Olas one night (fancy resturant at Turtle Bay resort) We also went out to Kuaiana Burgers in Haliewa and Haliewa Joes (because Nicole was crazing coconut shrimp :-)

Mom and I went for a walk to Foodland one morning to get coffee (I got a smoothie) and a few groceries, on the way back we saw this rainbow over Sharks Cove... it was beautiful.. I was glad I had the camera!

A few pictures of the sunsets we watched from our back porch......



Dad and I went on the Shark Dive one day. Jeremy and I had done it before, but I thought it would be cool for my dad and I to go together, and Jeremy didn't mind staying home to watch football.

 They put about 8 people in a cage that has a big plexi glass window, you have a snorkle on and spend about 45 minutes in the water with these 10-15 footers swimming around us. It is a pretty cool excusion. Here are a few pictures from that..

I swam to the bottom of the cage to get this one:

 This is through the plexi glass window:

 Dad checking out a shark as it swims by:

I don't even look 4 1/2 months pregnant.. I guess that is a good thing, but I totally expected i'd "look" pregnant in Hawaii.. O well. This is our new wall portrait and may even be on the Holiday card :-)



 Mom and dad....

We had a very nice trip.. it was relaxing and great to spend time with mom and dad, this was the first vacation we've done with my family since we've been married (Brian couldn't come because of school :-( so that was a bummer) . I have been fortunate to visit Hawaii a few times throughout my life, and it was nice to get to share those memories with Jeremy. Hope we are able to continue the tradition with our kids :-)