Good Friday on Ohau

What a beautiful day we had! We had plans to drive east from Waikiki and stop at a sea life park ... then maybe see a pineapple plantation on the NorthShore side, but the kids were just having so much fun at the beach, that we just decided to enjoy that ... got subway sandwiches and picnicked right there on Waikiki Beach. We did eventually head back to our room to clean up, and left for our drive to the NorthShore of the island, because we wanted to make it to the Good Friday church service at my friend's church over there. We stopped in a little surfer town for dinner at Pizza Bob's

Pictures from Friday on Waikiki Beach:

"Here Mama ... I No wear this hat!"


How fun to be at the beach together





The beginings of a great sand castle!



Mikayla by the landscaping between the street and Waikiki Beach.



Mmmm... subway picnic











This is a picture of our hotel, as we walked back to the hotel.
Our room was in the cnter of floor 22.



Thank the Lord for digital cameras ... so many many beautiful
things to see here. Here are a few of our favorite shots
from our Friday afternoon drive:






At one of the beaches we stopped to walk a bit on the boys
found a very cute little shelter












Of course traveling with a pregnant Mom on board means lots of potty breaks ... one time we stopped in this tiny little town, saw bathrooms by their baseball fields for mom to use. Right next to the baseball fields was the two truck fire station ... with this sign posted outside (click on it to read) I'm not sure why, but we found it amusing



We have found several sites and places we really wanted to spend time at, but simply did not have time to get to in these three days on Oahu ... so we have started a list of "what we will see when we come back someday" This beach we drove past is at the top of the list (Mom hoped out and took a few quick pictures):









Mmmm ... Pizza Bob's












These pictures really do not do justice to the church we visited for our Good Friday service ... it was so neat. All the window/door you see on this building were open ... like an open air service with a roof over head. And the pastor did a wonderful message walking thru the stations of the cross and then reading the last 7 things that Jesus spoke. We are blessed! We have a Savior!

The Pool ...in the rain

Our plan was to hit the pool after filling up their hungery bellies at Hard Rock Cafe ... but as soon as they got in the pool it started to rain and the wind was very strong, making everybody cold. I think they enjoyed 25 minutes of swimming in the rain before we headed back to our hotel room.


















If you look really closely you can see they were swimming under a rainbow in these last photos. Very Pretty!

Thursday Morning Off to Pearl Harbor

Kids had a truly fantastic feild trip this morning ... We went to the USS Arizona Memorial and Museum to learn more about what happend at Pearl Harbor ... I'm pretty sure I learned a lot more than I ever have before about Pearl Harbor and WWII.
M. & G. really enjoyed renting the audio tour headsets, as you walked thru the museum you could enter certain numbers and it told the story of Pearl Harbor. O. started out listening, too, but was not as interested ... thats OK he is only in Kindergarden.














Z. really liked looking at all the water and all the boats at the Naval pier, there was evven a submarine tied up at one dock

Thankfully during the 15 minute movie about the the history of Pearl Harbor Z. fell alseep on my lap, and O fell asleep on Dads lap. Z. stayed asleep on the little boat ride over to the USS Arizona Memorial and stayed asleep while we looked at most of it. He woke up, though to enjoy riding the boat back to the Memorial Museum:



























Daddy and the older boys were able to tour the USS Bowfin (a much older and smaller submarine than the one A. was stationed on.), right next to the USS Arizona memorial museum:



















After leaving Pearl Harbor we stopped for a late lunch at
The Hard Rock Cafe Waikiki





Z.'s favorite thing there was to take pictures of this car hanging from the ceiling:



G.'s favorite part was all those surf boards:






Then out in the parking lot of Hard Rock Cafe, the boys saw a lizard ... and I had to be the mean mommy and tell them "NO you may not take him home, or even back to our hotel!"