End of our trip

Well, I had all good intentions of keeping the blog updated day by day as the trip went on. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view) the trip was jam packed with stuff from early in the morning, until late at night. With the exception of yesterday (Friday) I was up at 5:30 every morning to either go on a scuba trip, or a snorkeling trip or something like that. So as I sit here on Saturday morning packing my stuff up to go home, looking out the window (at this picture I just took 5 minutes ago to remind me of what I woke up to every morning)...


I'm wishing I would have posted more pictures along the way. I'm so glad we got to come on this trip. It was so fun to be with all my extended family for a trip like this. It was also fun for my kids (the 4th generation represented on this trip) to be able to interact with their 2nd cousins. We did some fun things. We went to Warren and Annabelle's in Lahaina. A funny "Myth and Magic" show that all the adults went to.


Dallas had been to the show before, and I had heard how good it was. It was definitely as good as people had made it out to be.

We went to a Hawaiian Luau down the beach at the Marriott. Our group occupied 5 tables. Towards the end a minor food fight erupted and lasted until the lady behind Dallas at another table got hit with a cantaloupe.

This is Jared getting ready to throw an object of food.

My family also did a lot of scuba diving on this trip. On Monday, my Dad, Jonathan and I dove Lanai. We dove with Lahaina Divers and dove Cathedral 2 and "Wash Rock" On the first dive, Cathedral 2 (for those of you who don't know, the "Cathedrals" locations at Lanai are the most well known and popular dives) I had a low fill tank but didn't check my air before getting in the water. 10 minutes into my dive, I realized I only had about 1200 psi left and would have to cut my dive short. I was pretty frustrated with myself for not checking my air, and for missing the best dive of the day. There is a group of 3 brothers that do underwater photography. They call themselves "C3 Submerged". They are well known for their underwater photography. One of them dove with us. We talked a lot about cameras and had a great dive. Check out their website at www.c3submerged.com.


I had borrowed a camera from Brian Beecroft and took it along on most of my dives. It's a lot harder taking pictures underwater with a point and shoot, than it is on land with a D-SLR. Needless to say, I'm not super stoked with most of my pictures. The picture above I was able to take before I ran out of air on my first dive.

On Wednesday we went back to Lanai but with the rest of the family (minus Jen). We dove Cathedral 1 and Nobb Hill. Both were cool dives. On Thursday we dove with Ed Robinsons Dive Adventures. Everyone on the internet had said these guys were the best. Their service really was good. We dove Molokini and then Dove 5 Caves. We saw SOOOO many turtles on the second dive. We also swam into a cave that once we were in, we surfaced, and found ourselves in an air cavity within the cave that you could breath in. It was really cool. Unfortunately Jen wasn't able to do dive on the second dive because she was unable to equalize. At Molokini, we were treated to this shark.....

On Friday we went to Lahaina (again....it's about an hour drive) and had surfing lessons. It was so much fun. Maury, Wendi, Alex, Beau, Rocky, Krista, Jen, Sydnee, Lindsey, Carli, Tiffany, Jared and I all went. We seriously had a blast. Everyone did soooo good.


We're all very thankful to Grandma Hazel for bringing us all together and making this trip possible. We will plan on making a book for everyone to remember the trip by. If anyone from the trip has any questions or photo requests, feel free to email me.