Monday, September 13, 2010

Aloha


The sun setting at the Northshore Ocean.



This is the same day as Eric's bday. Thought that was kind of interesting.
Silly us!

Pineapple from the Dole Plantation.

Here is the story from the USS Missouri

USS Missouri. This is where the war ended and the Japanese signed the paper ending it.

The flag.

This is wear the flag was that was on the ship. If you look right by they have another pole. This is were the flag stands today.

This is the part of the ship that sticks out of the water.

The ship that sunk. All the people are still in that ship. They left them all down there.

We went to Pearl Harbor. This is the USS Arizona. This memorial sits over the ship that sunk. This was such a spiritual moment.


Another view from the trail.

The trail that we went on is on an old highway. This is the bridge that crosses the road down below.

On the trail, this was a view of the mountains.

These are wild chickens on a trail that we got to go on.

The pig that we ate at the Luah. They cooked him in the fire pit and covered him with banana leaves.

This guy is a monkey. He climbed the cocunt tree in like 5 seconds.
Yep this is Eric dancing in front of a crowd..LOL!!

Eric trying to start a fire with a log. He almost had it.

This is a lady making coconut bread. Notice her wrapping leaves from a tree around it. She then cooks it on the coals in a fire pit.

Eric at the Polynesian Cultural Center

Me at the Polynesian Cultural Center

Banana tree. I so wanted to pick them!

Outside our Hotel room at night.

Eric swimming with the sea turtle. This was the highlight of his trip. He could not stop talking about it..lol

Look close. There is a little Crab.

Just an amazing picture Eric took on our dinner cruise.

Dancer on the dinner cruise.

Some more of the Alaska gang on the dinner cruise we went on.

Some other friends from Alaska.

This is the beach at Bellows AFB. These guys are rescue divers and were doing some training.

BEAUTIFUL!!
AWWWW!!

At the beach with some friends here in Alaska.

Drawing in the sand.

Just a random picture of us. I really liked it. It was so nice to take a honeymoon that we really never had.

Eric and I after a long day of snorkeling at Hunama Bay. It was pretty awesome!

This is called the blow hole. When are really big wave comes, it makes water shoot out, kind of like a mini Old Faithful.
This is a sea turtle that we spotted at the beach by our hotel.
Outside our Hotel window
Sea Turtle basking in the sun.



This was some of the highlights of our trip to Hawaii. I really miss Hawaii and I hope I can go again. It really is as beautiful and amazing as everyone says it is. ALOHA!!

Sunday, April 4, 2010

UPDATE!! Ice Alaska March 26th


Ice slide
I called this the basket spinner. Paden had a nice spin in it.
Shandeigh ice skating
Trying to teach Jonathan to ice skate. Someone told us a chair worked good for that. It helped some. The two younger boys could not even stand on the ice so they just rode in the chair.
All of us except Eric on the snowmachine. He took the picture.;)


Quinn ready to skate. Then he got on the ice and it was all over..lol

Ice stage made totally out of ice

Ice phone boothIce Shirts--Jonathan and Shandeigh
Some enclosure thing...Jonathan and Paden
Ice Maze- front to back
Paden, Shandeigh, Amber
Quinn in the ice maze
Peek a boo..its me Quinn




This year we got to go to the Ice Alaska park that they do every year. This might be the last year because of the place they use want to quadruple their rates and the people who put it on said they could not afford it. Lets cross our fingers that they will change their minds because this was so fun to go and see. When we got there they took us on this train ride thing to look at all the neat ice sculptures so we did not got a ton of pictures. Most of the pictures we got were just of the kid things to play on. Anyway we all had fun and I hope you enjoy the pictures. We are finally around the corner to spring here and I can actually say that I survived my first Alaska winter. It had its really down moments, but it is looking up now.