Good idea. In chronological order:
To begin with, the weather was, how you say?, ah, yes: Crappy. So we spent the first two days inside as evidenced by the first couple of pics. Samantha was still enthusiastic, though.
David was looking foward to spending some of his hard-earned cash on some lovely Hawai'ian trinkets.
Dad (and Mom) cooked up a lovely Thanksgiving dinner.
Plenty of football was watched.
Poi was harassed, I mean, played with by Dave and Sam.
This was dawn of the first day we saw the sun. Time to hit the beach!
Not your typical Midwestern day-after-Thanksgiving kind of photos, eh?
Below is the first sighting of a pasty, white, wild-haired individual that just kept hanging around.
"Look out, kids; he's in the water!"
Along came some more showers and we decided that we ought to take a drive around the island. We ended up at the Kaumalapa'u Harbor, checking out the ocean and some menacing clouds.
"There's that freak with the afro again. Run!"
A behind the scenes look at the making of a model...
...and the photo that resulted.
The sun eventually came back out, so we decided to hike up to Pu'u Pehe (Sweetheart Rock).
Mom zipped ahead with her newly smoke-free lungs!
Dave posed at the top while trying to appear as though there was a giant head sticking out of the ocean.
Samantha flashed her million-dollar smile. Again.
The views were lovely...
"Oh my gosh! Get your hands off those kids, you maniac!"
Here are the kids on the early morning ferry to Maui.
...where we went to a super-cool aquarium, complete with sharks and stingrays. VERY cool.
Later on, we took the kids to ride some go-carts. Dave tried to pass Sam as many times as possible while, guess what?, Samantha was smiling.
After months of fielding questions like, "Dad, am I old enough to go to shoot sporting clays ?", we were able to appease David by going to the air rifle range. After blasting away in the practice rounds, we all choked big time when it came to the prize round and a chance to win the Crystal Pineapple. The competitive Blakeley nature was fully in attendance.
Finally, photographic proof that David got to drive a golf cart. We only drove off two cliffs!
I hope you enjoyed this modern-day slide show.
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!
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4 comments:
I felt as if I was there with you guys. I'm so glad you all were able to go, especially over the Thanksgiving holiday. Miss you guys alot.
As good as this is, it just can't show how much fun we really had! Mahalo nui for posting it. xoxoxo
It looks so good I wish I could have been there.
Oh yea, I was. Great time!
If I ever get my hands on him, I'll moider him!
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