Autumn & Kalina

Mom tried to go to bed last night and she found Autumn sleeping across the whole bd with her head hanging off!

Today we started off the morning at the koi feeding in the lobby garden.  There are at least 300 koi in the pond and if you go at 9am, you can feed them!

While we were waiting for them to start Mom wandered over and saw someone trimming a tree.

Here go the crazy fish!

Feeding the fish.  It looks like dog food.

We went up to the small area where the “old/big fish” live.  When they get to big, they move them to another area where they don’t have to compete as much for food.

I asked for an extra cup so we got to feed more fish.

By the end I even got brave enough to touch one.  This was me trying.

This was me being successful!

After the fish feeding we got ready for the pool and beach.  I started at the pool with Grandpa and Mom and Autumn went down to the beach.

At 11:30 they were doing tattoos and then at 12 we went up to do the shell frame craft.

All finished!

Then we headed back to the pool.  Mom thinks Autumn is working on being a local.  She’s getting supper tan and walking around with no shoes!

I floated around on this float for awhile.

Mom took a picture of her view when she looked up in her chair.

I helped carry the turtle up to the room.  It’s tough when it’s bigger than you!

Today started with hula lessons down in the courtyard.  We learned the basic steps and then did 3 different dances.

After hula we headed to Lydgate Beach.  There is a protected area there that is good for kids.  She the wall with the giant waves crashing on the other side?

We had a variety of weather today.  Clouds, rain, and sun!

Autumn and Ry were making floating sand castles on the boogie boards.

Silly Autumn face!

After the beach we headed to the food trucks in Kapaa.  We had to pickup the manju we ordered on Saturday from Pono Market.  Then we stopped at an ice cream store that was closed and then went to Safeway and Foodland.  Grandma and Diane were looking for shrimp chips with furikake on them.  Apparently they are hard to find and expensive.  Who’d wanna eat that anyway?!

Since we didn’t get ice cream we walked with mom to the shave ice place by the hotel.

This was Mom’s rootbeer float shave ice.  It had vanilla ice cream in the middle and condensed milk on top.  It must’ve been yummy because she ate it all.

Next it was pool time and dinner time.  Tonight’s cuisine came from Kaui Kookie Cafe.  Yes, we went to the bakery yesterday!  Dinner was good, dessert was GREAT!  Mom also bought some garlic toast-she ate the whole bag tonight!

It’s Sunday today.  We started out the morning at Glass Beach.  The waves erode pieces of glass and the beach is covered in tiny pieces.  If you look carefully you might find bigger pieces.  There’s lots of brown, clear and green ones.  The blue’s seemed to be the hardest to find.

Can you see the tiny specks of blue and green?

Mom started looking in the water so she gave the camera to Grandpa.  He just kept clicking away until she asked for her camera back!

Mom found this shell embedded in a rock.

It was pretty cool to look at up close.

While she was showing Autumn the rock, Autumn saw a crab running across the sand.  Can you see it?

Our next stop that morning was Spouting Horn.  It’s a lava tube where water shoots up when a strong enough wave crashes into the rocks.

This was the view to the other side.

Sight seeing can make a person hungry so we headed to Bubba’s Burgers for lunch.  After a little walking around we got shave ice from Uncle’s Shave ice and headed back to the hotel.  We stopped at Safeway and ended up getting rice and poke for the adults to eat for dinner.  Mom found pipi kaula too!

At the hotel we went to the pool to play for awhile.  I met a friend from Monterey, CA and the kids played with the tubes Grandma brought for us.  Bryce was doing lots of jumping in with “Gim” (I guess K’s are a little tricky to say) but he also played in the tube with Grandpa!

No one really wanted to go out for dinner and Jeff and Caitlin decided to get a Costco pizza.  Autumn and I shared that with them, mom ate leftovers, and Grandma, Grandpa, and Diane ate the poke.  A low key night in the room.  Oh did I mention they all had more hula pie?!  I was to busy in my room watching a show on my iPod, but apparently Jeff and Caitlin went down to Duke’s and brought up a slice for dessert!