Never Going To Catch Up or The Final Hawaii Post

Oh man, I really want to finish blogging about Hawaii and our fun week back in UT before the kids had to go back to school and the other things that have happened since then.  I like having the record, especially since I don't journal or scrapbook, but once you get behind it is so hard to get back on track.  Sometimes travel loggish posts are soooo frustrating..  I want to take blogger by the neck and strangle it, like when I am trying to upload pictures and it says bad request.  And then I give up and never post.  So frustrating.  But I will not let blogger beat me this time.  I will finish this post!  This is it man....so brace yourself for a giant catching up post.

Here are a few more pictures of some of the things we did whilst on the lovely island of Hawaii.  At the Hilton to watch the dolphins:

One of several delicious beach picnics prepared by Tutu.

This was our first picnic, at Waialea aka 69.

This was us about to be blown out to sea at Laupahoehoe:

This is one of the several perfect beach days at Mauna Kea we enjoyed

before Rob and the rest of the family arrived.  It was

so beautiful.  We stayed for hours and hours:

Trying to take a break from the beach we ventured 

down to Kona and took the kids to see Bolt, with

some shopping on Ali'i Drive.  The kids money 

was buring a hole in their pockets that day and they all

bought some good tourist junk (I mean treasures):

We took a quick drive over to the Waipio overlook and 

walked down into the valley a little ways.  Amazing:

Rob dreaming of backpacking into Waimanu...someday:

Tutu's friends the Barlockers live in a gorgeous home

down at the Mana Lani.  They invited us down for a day 

of snorkeling and a delicious dinner.  It was a great spot and 

we saw tons of amazing fish.  They boys really got out there too.

They also spent about an hour snorkeling in the tiny hot tub:

Clara loved the cats.  "tum here fusty. tum here Daddy-O"

The cats, wisely, mostly ran the other direction:

On our last day, Rob and I took the kids to Hakalau, 

a beautiful little valley.  It had been raining hard, which

only added to the beauty:

Then we went to Kolekole for frisbee.  We watched 

the waves and some surfers:

We finished the day off with another trip to 

Akaka, which was, after all the heavy rain,

amazing:

And just for fun, some more beach shots:

THE END

phew....I'm all caught up