Hawaii

We spent the week of January 18-25 on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.  It's the garden island and it's very lush and green.  We arrived Saturday, January 18th around 4:30pm.  We immediately went to the hotel, got checked-in, and went down to dinner at Duke's (restaurant on the hotel property).  The restaurant was right on the beach and no windows-all open.  It was a great way to start the vacation.

We did a lot of relaxing, which means we laid out a lot, but we also did a lot of sight seeing.  We drove to Waimea Falls, Waimea Canyon (which we didn't get to see since it was foggy), the coffee plantation, and up to the north shore. 

All of the sights were beautiful, but the one I enjoyed the most was the day we drove to the north shore.  They were having record breaking waves of 50ft high and we saw them!  I expected to see some surfers, but we didn't see a single one.  We got up there pretty early in the morning, so by the afternoon, the waves were more intense and they eventually closed down some of the roads up there.  I completely understand why since some of the roads are right along the ocean and I can only assume the waves were crashing over the roads. 

We also went to our first Luau and it was such a neat experience!  They showed us how they cook the pig in the sand and there was so much food.  And it was delicious.  :)  After dinner, we attended the show and it was very interesting to learn about the Hawaiian culture.  They performed many dances using many different instruments and performed all of it in the Hawaiian attire.

We had such a blast and it was so beautiful.  We are so thankful we were invited to go!

 

Waimea Falls

 

The North Shore and the waves.

 

The view at our hotel.

 

Another view from the pool.

 

Our group at Waimea Canyon....we are at the top and that is fog behind us.

 

Us at the resort.

 

This big guy had his 3 year check-up last week and he's growing like a weed!  Since Jason took him, I don't remember all of his stats.  He is in the 99th percentile for height and he weighs 39 lbs and some ounces.  Such a big boy!

 

And this little guy is my big eater.  :)  He had 2 pieces of pizza this night among many other things.  I think he's hitting a growth spurt because his shirts don't fit that well anymore and he's baring his midriff.  :)

 

Jason put up the first part of the back splash!  I love it and he's going to work on the rest this weekend.  It went up pretty quickly actually since the adhesive is really sticky and it held the tiles well.  Jason was nervous they'd fall down, but the adhesive worked great and there were no issues.  It was also pretty easy since the tiles are all connected and go up in one big piece, except for those little ones he had to be cut to fill in.  I can't wait for the rest to be put up and grouted so that my floors can go in!  And then it will be on to new carpeting for the entire rest of the house!  Yahoo!