Autumn & Kalina

Today everyone but Allie and us left for Oahu.  We had breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa and then headed to the pool.

Look at my silly sister!

She makes me laugh!

We took a break and made bracelets.  There were ladies selling jewelry and then had stuff for us to make our own.

Autumn decided to pour water down her swimsuit.

I one-upped her and poured it over my head.

Mom says these are “super-model” poses with us pouring water on ourselves.

Ry left while we were at the pool.  Grandma and Grandpa left while we were at the beach, and Pony left at nap time.  Allie is staying with us tonight and leaving tomorrow.

We went to the shopping center and listened to a group play music.  They had a hula dancer, so we watched her and danced like she did.  We both wanted to wear our hula dancing clothes too!

On Monday Mom and Dad went golfing in Kapalua at the Plantation course.

Here’s Mom’s fresh tuna fish sandwich on the golf course.

This was dad putting.

We stayed with Grandma and Grandpa and swam at the beach and pool.

For dinner we met them in Kaanapali at Roys.  Almost everyone had macadamia nut crusted mahi and chocolate souffle for dessert.  Then we drove back to the hotel and used our flashlights to go frog hunting.  Pony says that at night humongous frogs on the grass.  We saw a 3 frogs, 2 cockroaches, 1 cat and a security guard because we were walking on private property to see the frogs.

Tuesday we headed back to Maluaka beach where the adults went snorkeling a few days before.  This time from the beach mom saw an eagle ray and turtle, but not when she went in the water.  Auntie Cait took me out on the viewing board so i could see some fish too.

We were checking out the fountain in the hotel.

This is my sister splashing me with fountain water-I didn’t like it!

Since Autumn had some ocean trauma we worked hard to make sure she was having fun in the ocean.

     
Jumping in the waves is lots of fun.

Mom found a snail in a really pretty shell rolling around.  Only Ry would touch it though!

Do you know what’s happening here?  Uncle Jeffrey is going shi-shi!

We were checking these out on the rocks.

After the beach we headed back to Kihei Cafe for more breakfast.  Banana mac nut pancakes are yummy!  When we got back from breakfast we went down to the pool.  All the girls and grandpa had massages and then they went shopping.  We went back to the pool after nap with Daddy.  We stayed there until the sun went down.  Everyone else went to dinner at Izakaya Matsu and dessert at Cheeseburger in Paradise.  Before bedtime Pony taught me how to play “Go Fish” with cards that used to be Allie’s.  Autumn played too!

See what grandma bought us!  Shake your booty!

I can’t believe our trip is half over!  Today was another early morning snorkel trip but this time we all got to go.  A lady at dinner last night told us about a place to go with a nice beach so we all met this morning and headed over.  Well, all except Allie.  She was still sleeping.  The beach was near the Prince hotel in Makena.

Pony took us down to touch the water.  Autumn was ok with touching it, but she didn’t want to go in.

After one wave she said “Ok, that’s enough”  so we ran away.  Who knew she was kidding?!

Grandma and Autumn went to the water too.

Look, even Daddy came to the beach with us!

Jeff and Caitlin were trying to take a picture.  Look at how much taller she is!

There was a canoe group with their boats there.  I went to check it out.  The man let me sit inside and hold a paddle!

After that they went out snorkeling.  Mom says they saw a turtle out there and lots of fish and coral.  She says it was one of the better snorkeling times she’s ever had.

Is the water cold?

I’m building a sand tower.

Since the water was really calm here we did some “surfing”.

Autumn DID NOT want to go in with Mommy today.

Standing on the boogie board was a little tricky, so we did some laying down.  I could even do it a little by myself.

Grandma needed a little help going in the water.  The kids helped show her how to do it.

Gotta go a little closer…

Not close enough yet…one more step

There we go!

I helped too.

Caitlin and I went out together to rinse off the sand.

After the beach it was time for breakfast.  We went into Kihei and had brunch at the Kihei Cafe.  I had some of Mommy’s eggs, Daddy’s pancakes, and Grandma’s french toast.  They were all yummy!  Mommy had cinnamon roll french toast and Daddy’s pancake pile was huge!

Since it wasn’t nap time yet when we got back to the hotel we got to go swimming!  In the valet area a lady was packing her car to go home and she gave us these cool boards with windows on them so you could see under water.  She even had 3!  The kids tried them out in the pool.

This one was me showing Mom my big arms in the big pool.

Tonight after nap we are going to the Old Lahaina luau.  We’ll get to see hula dancers!!!

Waiting for the cars to pick us up.

Another try at getting 3 kids to smile and look at the camera at the same time.

Picture with Auntie Pony.

Someone said “Look up!”  How literal they take things.

Autumn, look here

Once we got inside the luau we went exploring.  first we learned to dance.

Then we went to get hair pieces.

Then we went and made bracelets.  We could each do it ourselves!

After I put the flowers on the string the man tied it to my wrist.

See Autumn do it herself.

See hers on her wrist?  She wasn’t really grouchy-she was watching the man make a necklace for Ry.

These dancers were doing a few dances before the show started.

See the pretty sunset.

After the show some dancers were outside when you walked out.  I took a picture with one, but I closed my eyes!