Heather's 40th birthday was quickly approaching and my brother in law Josh, asked if we'd like to go to Hawaii with he and Amy to their time share to celebrate her birthday. Fine! I guess that will be ok...hahaha. We had the BEST time. Honestly the most relaxing vacation of ALL time. We did a bunch of...nothing really. The morning we left we had to wake up at 4 a.m. to drive to the airport for a 5:30 a.m. flight. We arrived in Kauai at around noon, drove to Costco to load up on food for the week and went to our room at the Kauai Coast Resort.
At the Kauai Coast Resort looking at the ocean.
We immediately drove to Bubba Burgers (a local favorite) for lunch
When we went to Hawaii a few years ago we met this same woman ("Bea") and bought some of her coconuts. She remembered us!
I believe this was called Waimea falls.
The birds loved Josh-he had all of the goodies
This is what we did with most of our free time: boogie boarding. I wish I had a video of this but there was one time when we were all out there on the water, caught the same wave and rode into shore together. We were all laughing our heads off during the whole thing.
In Hawaii they hire live scarecrows (real people) to sit on a chair in the middle of a field to thwart the enemy birds. You kinda have to squint to see this guy. 8 hours sitting in a chair in a field...guess it wouldn't be that bad.
Yes, a pretty chessy picture but oh well-it was Heather's actual birthday.
This was taken just outside the restaurant "The Beach House" where we ate for Heather's Birthday.
We went on the famous Napali Coast hike the next day and arrived at this secret beach and saw this sign. Of course we saw many people getting in and swimming in the water there.
Such stunning views
Josh and Amy coming up the trail
A perfect day
There were wild chickens all over the island. It made Heather and I miss our 4 chickens back home.
This is a famous road called "Tunnels Road"
One day we went to this beach called Polihale Beach. Little did we know that it was also a missle testing area. While we were laying on the beach, you guessed it, a rocket was launched (you can see the faint smoke trail in the sky). It scared us when the sound finally hit and it just rumbled for about 2 minutes straight and it took off in the sky. It was amazing to see.
Guess what this cool building is? It's the local LDS meetinghouse. We were priveledged to hear the words of the local seminary students and their testimonies that day. Such a great spirit there-one of our favorite memories about our trip.
Heather and I got up early one morning to hike the "Sleeping Giant" trail that one of the church members just raved about. It was awesome. We climbed to this level after only about 20 minutes. One of the perks of the hike was finding the wild strawberry guavas (next picture down) and eating them while hiking.
It was so peaceful and gorgeous up at the top.
Our last meal at the Hukilau Lenai before going to the airport to come home.
A sad moment for all of us. We had such an amazing vacation in Hawaii but were anxious to see the kids again. We knew however, that they were in good hands: Tim and Taihana Olsen stayed with them for a few days, then off to Grandpa Danny and Grandma Jeannie's house then finally Dad and Mom flew up from Cali to stay with them for the last few days. We were excited to come home and find out also that Chloe had made 9th grade officer!!
Happy Birthday H!!!
