Showing posts with label Hawaii. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hawaii. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Maui here we come....

Here we are, sitting at the Honolulu Airport, heading to Maui... we booked an afternoon flight because we weren't sure how much time we'd need to get off the boat. Turns out we allowed ourselves too much time and got to see about two planes leave before us... lets just say we had to be creative entertaining seven little boys!


Airport Burger King....

Hiding in the trees

These two look like they belong on a university campus

I had the camera focused on someone else and Cole was calling "MOM" so I turned and here he was a posed on a rock and expected a picture!

Like fathers...

Like sons...

On the plane - Liam & Koy

Jackson & Wyatt

Ethan & Peyton

Cole wedged between his parents

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Sail Away...

We set sail on Saturday, November 28th, returning one week later on December 5th. Our ship was the Norweigan Cruise Line's 'Pride of America' and we cruised around the Hawaiian Islands.... here are some pictures from the ship (our shore excursions will be posted separately)


Getting on to the boat!

NCL - Pride of America

A sunset as we set sail one night

Elephant - we loved to see the daily towel creations & you know you have boys when they constantly fought over who got to 'destroy' it :)

The grand staircase by the reception area

first morning on the boat - watching tv in their room

Breakfast at the Skyline Restaurant - all decorated for Christmas

Fun carpet in the hallway

Teddy Bear picnic at Kids Club

Fun carpet in our room :)

These four little lounge chairs were in a row between the big chairs so I attempted to get a nice picture but they never once all cooperated at the same time!

The kiddie pool

Cole at the kiddie pool

Kiddie pool

Cole with a 'snake'

Pool fun with cousins - tackling Brendan was a favourite pastime

'King Cole' - a castle theme at Kids Club

Lava Flow as we sailed by the Kilauea Volcano - 'Madame Pele', one of the most active volcanoes! (We were able to stand on our deck and watch)

Jackson entertaining Cole in our room :)

The kids' 'Aloha Buffet' - just around the corner from the Aloha Buffet was a perfect kid-size buffet! We often fed them here and then took them to Kids Club, while we went somewhere else for supper (it was just faster and easier and they preferred it)

Boys on the staircase (Miles' entire family had pictures done here that night)

On Wednesday night, we paid the cover charge and went to Teppenyaki's for supper

Liam with either a chicken or monkey... what do you think?

Me & my hubby on the staircase

Pool closed - on our last day of sailing the main pool was closed because it was so rough! I didn't even get a picture of it at its worst!

Pool Closed

Froggie

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Pearl Harbor


On our last day on Oahu (Saturday, November 28th) the guys took some of the older children to Pearl Harbor, while the moms took the younger kidlets for one last walk down the Waikiki shopping strip and to the International Market Place. Miles graciously took the camera with and humoured me with some pictures...

Ethan listening to information




Memorial Wall

Layout of the ship: USS Arizona




On December 7th, when we were on Maui, we noticed all the flags were at half mast. At first I thought maybe another soldier had died but then Miles remembered that it was the anniversary of Pearl Harbor

Oahu, Hawaii - Waikiki

Here are a few pictures from our stay right in Waikiki...

The city at night (balcony view)

BBQ's at our resort - our chef's for American Thanksgiving! Miles was in the room on shrimp duty - great job guys! (they did the shopping too)

Mmmm... enjoying our feast and our second Thanksgiving dinner of the year!

Cole in our room and obviously on the counter! He is quite a little monkey at the moment and would fit in quite nicely at the Honolulu Zoo :)

View from our balcony - "the Rainbow State"

Nephews at the beach...



Crazy pool fun... until security told them they weren't allowed to do this!

Cole & Mommy

Our Resort