Sunday, January 29, 2012

Oahu 2012

The gift I was most excited to give to our kids was a trip for our whole family to our timeshare on Oahu.  In their stockings were the letters H A W A I I, and it didn't take long for them to unscramble them and figure it out.
We left on Friday, January 13 and came home on the red-eye flight the following Friday night.  It was the perfect week of swimming, playing at the beach, feeding the birds, eating, sleeping and just being together. It definitely didn't hurt that our surroundings were so beautiful.
We mostly spent time at our hotel, but Sunday found us at church and then taking a drive and a picnic to the other side of the island to see the temple and visitors' center.  Another morning we took advantage of staying right next to the Disney Aulani and enjoyed a character breakfast with Mickey, Minnie, and Goofy.  It rained on Tuesday, so after swimming in the morning we drove to Haleiwa and had lunch and Matsumoto's shave ice.  Every other day after lunch we had shave ice from the hotel.