the rest of vacation!

Well, we are officially back from Hawaii. Ill try to recap a bit of our week, but i will tell you, it was a whirlwind! By about Tuesday i had abandoned the idea of carrying around my nikon. in fact, i didn't even have it in me to carrry a point and shoot, so this post is all cell phone shots! In case you hadn't heard, i turned in my old Saved By the Bell Cell phone, and joined the era of camera, internet, and facebook by cell. My last phone was truly "old school". It didn't flip, or slide, or anything, had no camera, and still had an actual antenna that you could raise and lower. i actually adored that phone, but i am happy to have all the cool features on my new phone.

anyway, our cousin took a bunch of pictures with an actual camera, so hopefullyi can post some of those soon!

anyway, we basically spent our mornings at the park, beach, or pool, then took a nap in the hotel, and then cris was home from work and we headed out for some dinner. simple and wonderful days with the girls all week.
here the girls are sharing their own ColdStone ice cream in Waikiki at the Koi Pond in the Ala Moana Mall

We stopped by Cris office one morning to say hi, and we were happy to see he still has an office with his name on the door :) Cris had a great week at the university, and is really anxious to get back.

Juneau chilling out one morning at the pool

The girls at the playground

i have more pictures i will be uploading later this week. Overall we had a really great trip. It was so nice to be back in Hawaii, and it definately still feels like "home". The weather was beautiful. The girls, of course, think hawaii is the greatest place ever! they got to play with mommy all day, every day. They went to the beach/pool every single day, and ate a whole lot of ice cream. There is no better place on earth to these two little girls :)

the flight home went fine. The girls are really great little travelers. we had an overnight flight out of honolulu, and they slept through that. Nova woke up a bit grouchy when i tried to put her in the Ergo, and protested quite loudly "no backpack, no backpack. no thank you please. no thank you please". the only other trip dilemma was in our "perfect planning" we somehow ended up with only 1 diaper each at the start of the 12 hour trip, and no back ups. as in zero. Juneau completely un-potty trained herself this trip, and was going through diapers like a newborn baby. In our infinite parental wisdom we decided we would try to find some at the airport, and in the meantime we would just do a little "fluid restriction" to keep them from going through their only diapers. well, the honolulu airport does not carry diapers. Juneau, our psychogenic water drinker, was not too happy with our little plan, and fortunately we were able to find a diaper at the portland airport. So, we all got to see what a $3.oo diaper looks like, and the girls got to have their juice back :)

we have a busy week ahead, i have a really full work schedule this week, and we have alot of cleaning/laundry/unpacking/schedule adjusting to do :)