Thursday, September 13, 2012

Hawaiian Family Vacation

Aloha! K has returned from her first family vacation to Hawaii. Mommy has been traveling on business, so it's been awhile since she updated the blog. But she's back and can recap the trip. The day before we left K wanted to help Mommy pack.

It was K's first time sitting on an airplane. On both flights the plane was not full, so K got a seat all to herself. She had fun playing with her new etch-a-sketch.

She even got a whole row to herself and was able to take a nice long nap lying down. What a lucky girl! She did really good for the most part, but 3 hours into the flight, she did want to go up and down the isles. She would touch the other passengers. Three people held her and played with K. Mommy is not sure if it's a good thing that K is so friendly.

Family picture on the main lobby floor of our hotel.

The beach was K's favorite part of the trip. The water was so beautiful and blue at Hapuna beach. She loved shoving sand into her bucket.


Can you tell how happy she is?

She enjoyed being in the pool too. Daddy bought a float at the ABC store for K to sit in. It only cost 70 cents to pump it with air! Much faster than having Daddy blow it up himself.

K practiced her kicking in the pool. Her swimming lessons really paid off! She is comfortable in the water.

We also went to another beach that Mommy can't remember the name of and saw baby sea turtles.  K learned how to say "turtle" on this trip. Daddy didn't want to stand too close since they are endangered and there were signs that said do not disturb the turtles.

Other animals K saw for the first time were dolphins. We took a tram ride around the Hilton to see them. We came at a good time since the trainers were making the dolphins do tricks of talking.


Our hotel was really close to Queen and King's market. It was convenient to pick up snacks. K liked spam musubi. Mommy didn't let her eat the whole thing since it was way too salty. Mommy discovered that K has a palate for fish! She tried Mahi Mahi, salmon, and butterfish during various dinners. She would always say "more" "more" whenever fish was served.

At the market place there was a koi pond. K followed the fish as they swim by her.

For breakfast, we tried banana macadamia nut pancakes at Island Lava Java.  Thanks for the recommendation Auntie Ali! We sat outdoors and there was a musician who K was totally mesmerized by. She danced in her seat to his tunes.


She got out of her high chair and danced some more.


This was the view from hotel. We were able to see the sunset on our last night.

Traveling with a baby is definitely not an easy task, but we had fun. Hawaii-we will miss you!

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