Sorry, it is a little long but this is only a small portion of the pictures I took.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Aloha and welcome home!
I know this is Ayda's adventures but I would like to share one of my own. I just got back from a fun vacation to Hawaii, I went with my mom and sisters. No husbands and almost no kids (Keely brought Maisy...she is so good it was like having NO kids). We stayed at a house in Princeville on the island of Kauai.
We went to a luau one night, we spent time on the beach, we flew over to Honolulu and went to the Hawaii temple and the Polynesian Cultural Center. We learned that in Hawaii everything is a lot more laid back. For example, we went into a little restaurant and the waitress asked a couple to move because there was five of us and only two of them. At that same restaurant there was a cat sitting on a chair at the next table, taking in the morning sun and the ocean breeze while bathing itself. When the cat was done bathing he got up and went to the kitchen...who knows maybe he needed a snack. We went to another restaurant near the temple and when we walked in we were told to seat ourselves and that if we wanted water it was over there (the waitress pointed...it was serve yourself.)
The beaches were beautiful and we had a great time in the water and watching Maisy eat sand...we aren't sure who took more sand from the beach, us with sand in our swim suits or Maisy with sand on her face and in her mouth.
For those of you who like people watching Hawaii is the place for you. On the plane on the way over the man behind Endre who looked like a jungle cat kept peering around her shoulder to watch her movie. We started calling him a "lioness" and little did we know we would fine many of those in Hawaii, it was like there was a convention in town. We saw another man in the airport that had the worst toupee and kind of looked like an AsianWayne Newton. We had a man at the luau who kept moving his seat around so we couldn't see, he had lioness hair too. Oh, let us not forget we had the three generations of speedo grace us with their presence, what a treat.
There are a couple things I was happy to leave behind...looking up and seeing geckos on the walls of the house (inside) and gas that cost 4.74 a gallon.
There are too many great memories to mention and I have a million pictures so I will try to narrow those down and get them posted.
We went to a luau one night, we spent time on the beach, we flew over to Honolulu and went to the Hawaii temple and the Polynesian Cultural Center. We learned that in Hawaii everything is a lot more laid back. For example, we went into a little restaurant and the waitress asked a couple to move because there was five of us and only two of them. At that same restaurant there was a cat sitting on a chair at the next table, taking in the morning sun and the ocean breeze while bathing itself. When the cat was done bathing he got up and went to the kitchen...who knows maybe he needed a snack. We went to another restaurant near the temple and when we walked in we were told to seat ourselves and that if we wanted water it was over there (the waitress pointed...it was serve yourself.)
The beaches were beautiful and we had a great time in the water and watching Maisy eat sand...we aren't sure who took more sand from the beach, us with sand in our swim suits or Maisy with sand on her face and in her mouth.
For those of you who like people watching Hawaii is the place for you. On the plane on the way over the man behind Endre who looked like a jungle cat kept peering around her shoulder to watch her movie. We started calling him a "lioness" and little did we know we would fine many of those in Hawaii, it was like there was a convention in town. We saw another man in the airport that had the worst toupee and kind of looked like an AsianWayne Newton. We had a man at the luau who kept moving his seat around so we couldn't see, he had lioness hair too. Oh, let us not forget we had the three generations of speedo grace us with their presence, what a treat.
There are a couple things I was happy to leave behind...looking up and seeing geckos on the walls of the house (inside) and gas that cost 4.74 a gallon.
There are too many great memories to mention and I have a million pictures so I will try to narrow those down and get them posted.
Ayda with Grandma Pam
Thanks to Pam (Travis' mom) for coming out to Oregon on the hottest week ever to stay in our non-air conditioned house to help with Ayda while I was in Hawaii! Ayda had fun with Pam and it was nice knowing she was in good hands. They tried to escape the heat but some days it was just too hot. They went to the children's museum and played in the sprinklers and went to the library. It was good for Ayda to spend time with Pam, since we don't get to see her that often. Thanks again Pam.Thursday, August 7, 2008
She isn't messin' around!
Ayda was eating her breakfast and she turned her little fork into a double-sided strawberry holder. What can we say she is efficient!
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