Category: Kalina


Saturday night Kalina and Grandpa went to take a walk.  They explored the hotel and went down to the beach.  When they came back, their shoes were like this!

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We headed to the beach Sunday morning.  The waves were a little rougher than the day before.  I rode the turtle again, but this time, on the ride in I got TOSSED!  I had so much sand everywhere the shower couldn’t get it off.  Mom took me to the pool and we worked to rinse it out of my pigtails for awhile!  Later we headed back to the pool and found the water slide.

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You should hold your breath at the bottom!

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Here goes Autumn!

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Baby Bryce came for a dip to cool off.

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We had quiet time in the room and then headed downstairs to explore.  Check out the giant fish we found!

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Aghhhh, it’s eating Autumn’s head!

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My turn!

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Mom took a picture of a couple flowers.  Boring!

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Contemplating life.

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We were headed over to Poipu for dinner at Savage Shrimp.  The Bobsey twins were ready to go!

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We saw a rainbow while we ate dinner.

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I think the best part was going for shaved ice after!  We ate at Uncle’s Shave Ice.  Mom tried shaved snow.  That’s where they mixed sugar, milk, and flavor with the water and froze it.  Then they shaved that chunk of ice.  She says it was super yummy!

I had lemon, cherry, and banana.

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Autumn was not so much a fan of shaved ice.  She said it made her teeth cold and was crunchy.

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Ry loved his!

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Mom let Autumn have an ice cream instead.  She tried shaved ice and that’s an important thing for Autumn.  Trying things!

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Back to the car to go home.

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Monday we went back to the beach hut for breakfast.  Autumn was up at 5am but they don’t open until 7.  On the way we saw this rainbow.

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After, we stopped at the beach for a quick hello to the ocean and a Facetime chat with Kameron.  Mom snapped a pic of sister time.

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There was a hula class at the hotel today that I wanted to do.  I learned some hula dances and had fun.

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We found a few elephants to ride.

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Then we had some fruit for a snack.

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I put my glasses on my head like Mom.  It gave me crazy hair!

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Autumn finally sat nice for a picture!

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We stayed out of the sun today to let our sunburns heal a little.  Instead we took a car ride to Hanapepe to the Kauai Kookie company.  The we went to the Swinging Bridge.  It’s a bridge that swings a little.  Autumn didn’t really like it very much.  She held on.

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Mom tried to take a picture of us.  Autumn wouldn’t smile.

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This smile cost Mom a quarter.  For a quarter, Autumn smiled!

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Grandma stayed at the beginning of the bridge.

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Here’s the view off one side of the bridge.

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Here’s another view on the bridge.

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We headed back towards the hotel and had a plate lunch.  Mom said we could have a treat since we ate a good lunch.

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We spent some time playing in the room and then headed to the pool for a little while.  Then we went back to the room because Bryce and Ry were coming to our room for dinner.  Auntie Cait and Jeff went to a nice dinner.

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Play time and then bed time.  I wonder what adventures tomorrow will bring.

We had to get up super early to get on the airplane.  Autumn sat with Mommy and I say like a big girl in the row behind them.

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As soon as we got to the hotel we wanted to go and check out the beach.  We played at the edge for awhile and then decided to change and really get wet!  I had a little issue not listening so I had a short time out on the towel, but then I got to play.

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Later Grandma and Grandpa got to the hotel and then Ry, Bryce, Jeff, and Cait got there.  We went and had dinner at Duke’s but after Grandpa and I headed to the lobby to watch some hula dancers.  I got to learn a dance with the little girls.  They even gave me a lei!

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While we watched the dancers, the kids went down to the beach.

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By the time we got back to the room everyone was exhausted.  It was sooooo late!  Autumn was asleep by 7:20pm!

The next day we were up and out of the room by 7am.  We walked down to Kalapaki Beach Hut for breakfast and smoothies.

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We got Grandma a newspaper at the ABC store and on the way to the beach we found Jeff, Cait, Bryce and Ry.  We decided to go to the room and get our suits on and meet them at the beach.

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See the green turtle?  If you look back on visits to Hawaii in 2012 and 2011 you’d see the turtle in pictures too.  Every trip Grandpa packs it in his suitcase for us!  I was a little worried about riding it in the ocean at first, but you can see that it ended up being lots of fun!

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Bryce can’t ride the turtle yet, but he can hang out in his tent!

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Kids turn!  They liked it too.

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I waited my turn by sitting on the beach.

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Wheeeeee!

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Time to head to the pool!  Time for the “3 kids on the turtle” picture.

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It’s been nice weather with some rain storms here and there.  The difference is that when it rains here it can stop after a few minutes and there’s no hail or tornadoes to worry about!

School ended on Monday and we left for California on Tuesday.  We are starting our vacation with a few days in San Jose.  We were waiting for Grandpa to come pick us up.

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On Wednesday we got to go to visit with Mommy’s friends.  We swam a long time and had lots of fun!

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Ready, set, jump!

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Then we tried out some different floating toys!

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After dinner we watched Frozen with Mary.  Autumn fell asleep on the floor but I got a chance to sit and pet Kokomo

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