Let's get this over with, shall we?

Back to our originally scheduled Hawaiian programming.


Keep in mind, I'm doing this for the sake of the family scrapbook, not to bore you even more than you were already before you clicked on this blog. :)


This post should wrap things up and then I can start carrying on about how depressed I am that school is starting and summer is so OVER and my babies are in 3rd grade and where does time go and sunrise, sunset and oh the sadness of it all. (Seriously, have you EVER looked at the lyrics to that song?!? Oh my word.) So enjoy some happy island pictures before things go seriously downhill on the Four Happy Campers.


Here's our beach. The kids LOVED the beach. They've never experienced WARM bright blue/turquoise ocean water and just had a ball soaking it all in.

This was a huge lagoon on the resort property the kids could swim in as well.

Learning how to snorkel in the pool -

We learned pretty quickly you do NOT eat on Hilton property unless you plan on taking out a 2nd mortgage on the house so we had fun trekking to the tourist spots like Senor Frogs and Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville.

Before our Luau (and yes, the men really wear the leis and beads to luaus).

Here's that snorkeling place I mentioned before - headed there in the middle of the week. It was AMAZING. 450+ different species of tropical fish and we probably saw 100 of them. The kids did awesome - snorkeled for an hour and a half straight before we made them hit the beach for a break.

Here's a view of our beach from our tower -

And a view of the main pool -

And the beach looking the other direction. You so cannot capture the color of the water in megapixels. Not with my camera, anyway.

Lastly, here are the resort's resident penguins. Right outside the doors of our tower. In Honolulu, Hawaii. Where it's 80-85 all year round. ?? Go figure. They sure were fun to watch, though.

And that wraps up Mark's 40th birthday bash. It was a huge success and something we'll remember forever. Actually I do have about 100 other pictures I could post. But I won't. Unless I'm lacking blog material in the dead of winter.