Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Hawaiian Hiatus







While you all were digging out from "SNOWMAGGEDON" (headline in HI newspaper) my family and our close friends the Burghdoffs were soaking up some sun in Hawaii, the ONLY state that did not have snow last week. HUGE SMILE.

Best part of trip: seeing several endangered species including: An albino humpback whale, green sea turtles, and a Hawaiian Monk seal.

Worst part of trip: Two hours of screaming overtired children (Ryan age 2 and Hazel, age 18mths) on the red-eye plane ride home. I gave up my seat so my son could stretch out and sleep and sat by total strangers two hours into the long flight who gave me a real stink eye for moving into an empty seat! I ignored them and tried to nap. Boo to the airline for NEVER Turning off the stupid TVs!

Lessons learned: I love boogie boarding. However, a pedicure was a waste of money, as the sand destroyed it. Also, spray tanning looks good, if you can keep it off of your feet. I'm still sanding some of the orange bits away a week and a half later. Also, video taping dolphins that are leading your boat at over 30 MPH will not turn out well, it will be very blurry, and 12 minutes is too long to tape anything!

We took lots of photos, but I think the best parts were captured on video. Hopefully my editing department (jeff) can sort through the footage and we can get a video montage up soon. In the meantime, here are a few photos.



3 comments:

Melissa said...

So jealous about this trip! Those are great pictures and I'm glad you guys had fun. Can't wait to hear more about it!

Angi said...

What fun!! I'm jealous, too--this is definitely on our "travel-to" list with the kids...uh, and without :)

Can't wait to see all of what you've got, be it video or just photos!

Hope you're back and rested and hell yes, it's Snowmageddon. We're postively BURIED.
And it SUCKS, in case you were wondering :)

Jennifer Woolsey said...

Can't wait to see more pics and the VIDEO!