Friday, September 18, 2009

Hawaii: Day without the kids

Sunday my parents took the girls & David & I got to spend some alone time in Hawaii. We started the night out by shopping for souvenirs, eating ice cream & ended it with a moonlight walk on the beach. Well, we actually started out our night by having security search our room because we were missing out underwater camera's (which suddenly appeared before we left Hawaii). It was kind of funny because we had met a couple at church, that had a rental car & said they were going to the Polynesian Culture Center & we could tag along if we wanted, but we didn't want to spend all that money & the whole day at one place, but when the security guy came he told us that we HAD to go. So we decided to go spend our day with people we barely knew. Monday we woke up & took a walk on the beach & met a crazy Hawaiian lady who was doing a moon dance in the ocean, but we got a cool picture. We met up with our new found friends & took the most beautiful drive to the other side of the island. We got to take pictures of the LDS Hawaiian temple (it is under renovation so we could not attend) & headed to the PCC. We spent the first 45 minutes trying to fix our friend's camera that we had borrowed for the trip & after losing a screw we gave up. We watched a canoe show where each island did their dances for us & then we walked around & checked out each island culture. We couldn't afford to buy the luau for dinner so we ate the buffet, which was the worst buffet EVER (when the seafood casserole is the best thing on the table.....) but the night show was amazing. They had fire dancers, fire throwers & it was a wonderful story about life & showed us the different cultures of the Polynesian islands. We had a great time & I'm so glad that we spent the money & the day to go.


Hawaiian lady doing the moon dance
Me & the crazy Hawaiian ladyOn our drive the ocean was literally right next to the roadIt was so green when we got away from WaikikiThe Laie Hawaiian TempleThe canoe show
Our underwater dive in the IMAX theater


The PCC had beautiful waterfalls

The Queen's room
The Tahiti dancers...apparently I didn't hear "hang loose"

1 comment:

Bre said...

I can't imagine you guys going anywhere and not making friends. Everyone love the Gould's!