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MY FAVORITE DAY in HAWAII!
We spent all of Friday, March 20 at
HAPUNA BAY!
The following pictures are my idea of heaven on earth. Clear, beautiful warm-ish water, super fine sand, perfect weather, boogie boarding, body surfing, laying out, playing catch, building sand castles and snorkeling with my darling family.
View to the right (where we snorkeled later in the day)
View to the left
Best view- my kids in the tropical blue water
(O.K. Emily, I know the water is clear but it LOOKS blue!)
One of the best things we brought with us from the mainland is this little red football. We played with it A LOT that day!
Go long!
Liv getting ready to test out the waves
Tess joins us out in the water.
Chloe and I had so much fun playing catch. We loved to see how well we could do. It was pretty easy to get ten out of ten so we challenged ourselves and got 19 out of 20! Not bad! Chloe loves to play football at the park with her friends and has a good arm!
Olivia and Rustin having a sand fight. See the sand all locked and loaded in her right hand. Where is Rustin??
Here he is, ready to retaliate! No fists buddy!
She got him- sand on his back!
Chloe queen of the drizzle castle!
Making these makes us think of Grandma Koski!
Olivia and her castle, ready to destroy!
Looks cool both ways!
Tess's favorite pastime! Could she be any darker??
The towel is over her head because it was sooo windy your face and hair would just get covered with sand! Later She and Russ moved all our stuff the the wet, harder sand so we wouldn't get buried in the sand storm!
We got a tip that there were a bunch of sea turtles on the right side of the bay so we hustled down there. Sure enough, there were probably 8 or more! Here is a smaller one heading toward the rocks.
Here are two big fellas right on the rocky edge. They were so fun to swim with. You could get super close and watch them chomp on coral.
Nice. We knew it was illegal to touch them but had fun getting up really close (we had been waiting 6 long days to finally see some) and this guy next to us kept yelling at us, "Don't touch 'em! Don't touch 'em!" Russ was like, "Are YOU touching them, cuz we're not touching them?!" It was annoying!
I knew they were big but they seemed even bigger up close and personal!
One of the best things we found over here was this little cove with a sandy beach. It was only about 30 feet wide but it had big black volcanic rocks we warmed our selves on, perfect sand to lay on, little tide pools (hot tubs) and tho there were people there (a nice family from Virginia) it was pretty fun to hang out there!
Chloe and Liv warmed up there while we snorkeled a little further out.
These are the venomous black sea urchins that struck fear into our hearts!
The waves weren't terribly big but every once in a while you get a good one and Tess catches this one!
Olivia and Rustin knows how to ride em! Well Olivia missed this one but caught lots all day long!
We had to try about 5 times before this worked but I am actually taping them while I surf the wave WITH THEM!!! Yeah me!
Chloe, Rustin and Liv demonstrating their favorite way to recycle sand castles!
This little guy was alone to the right of the main group Russ called us over to see it!
Up close and personal with Mr. Turtle!
I sound like Darth Vader breathing through my snorkel.
Tess and the turtle family!
This is our last video with this camera, EVER! See the brown flecks float by? Not sure if it's related but after this we found that our underwater camera had water IN IT!! We spent the next few days fretting over whether this entire photo card was ruined or not along with ALL the underwater pictures and video from the entire trip!! When we pulled into out house at 1:30 am a few days later I ran straight to the computer and tried to download them.
MUCH TO OUR DELIGHT, IT WORKED!!!! Obviously!!
After a long day at the beach we went home and cleaned up but before we could head out for dinner Rustin had fallen asleep. We tried to rouse him but he wanted to stay home. We found a food court and chowed down! Rustin had leftovers from the night before at Macaroni Grill. YUM!
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