Hawaii-Day 13

Today was wonderful. Relaxing. 

We started our day with breakfast out and soccer. 

Then onto kite flying, which turned out to be quite the adventure. I first tried Owen's kite. It went up fast, and was hovering at a good height, so I gave the string to Owen and tried to get Ava's up. Well I come back to him 5 minutes later (after several unsuccessful attempts at getting Ava's up) and he says is in sweet little voice "it just kept unrolling." He is holding the handle, and all the string has unraveled, the quite is rather high. Well, to be exact, the string is 300 feet long. So the kite is 300 feet up :) It was like a little dot in the sky! Flying kite's 300 feet in the air on and Air Force base probably is not the best idea. It kept looking like the planes were getting rather close to the kite. Needless to say, it took a while to get it back down :)

We then proceeded to some frozen yogurt, which was delicious! I LOVE the frozen yogurt place's where you get to do it by weight. The watermelon with strawberry popper toppings was amazing!

A picnic dinner on the beach and watching Cinderella while in a tent (in the living room) finished up the night. 

Today was the first day I did not like the weather. It was humid. It felt hot and sticky all day. But 1 out of 13 days isn't bad :)

I left my phone and camera in the other room while we watched a movie. Just kind of disconnected. It was freeing. Watching a movie while snuggling under the  blanket roof. No worries. Just focused on enjoying the movie.

I waltzed with Owen to "this is love". We had been discussing a few minutes earlier that the prince and Cinderella got married soon after they waltzed. After we finished waltzing, Owen asked me "are we gonna get married now?" Sweetest question ever. Maybe just a bit too much of an age difference :)

Yes, that little black dot in the sky is the kite.

This is what Owen built while Ava and I built our sand castle. He said it was a sand rolleer coaster :)

Tinkle time!

~Rebekah

Hawaii-Day 12

Well, today was quite the day, to say the least. The morning started out wonderful, with a little shopping and playground-playing for Owen and I. After picking up Ava, having some lunch and a nap, we headed into Waikiki. We enjoyed a lovely afternoon eating some more shaved ice, relaxing by the pool and playing at the beach. After that was finished is when things got interesting. I had planned to grab some dinner and then sit on the beach to watch the 7:30 fire works. But by the time we were done getting all changed, all of the little snack shacks had closed, and all of sit down restaurants had 1 hour wait times. So we start walking, and I figure we can find a restaurant eventually. Not. At about 7:15 I am no where close to the beach, still wandering around for a restaurant that does not have an hour wait time and was less then $40 a plate. We race back to the beach having found no where (not even a Mcdonalds!) and sit down to watch the fire works. And then 7:40 comes, then 7:50, and finally, at 8:00, the fireworks come on. We watch them, and then we slowly make our way to the restaurant I had gotten a pager for before we sat down. It was a restaurant right by the beach, and the only one that had under an hour wait time. Though the food turned out to be wonderful, it was definitely not the best restaurant for one person with two little kids at 8:30 at night. You had to cook your own meat, on your own personal grill. The kids were absolute ANGELS as we waited 10 minutes for my food to cook. I can not express in words how amazing they were. I did not hear one single complaint, and they did not act out once. Just sat quietly watching the food cook and making the occasional comment. For a 3, and 5 year old who were over tired and starving, this is a true miracle. 

One of the many things I learned today was that people really are kind. Though I did get a few not so nice looks as I plowed through places with my double stroller, in general people were so helpful. Weather it meant helping me carry a stroller up the stairs, or moving something out of the way of the stroller, or even flipping my burger for me, everyone was quick and happy to help. And that is what made the night wonderful for me.

"and the heavens declare the glory of God."

~Rebekah