From the Prairies and Beyond!

Maui Ocean Center

On Monday (December 7th) we went to the Maui Ocean Center - we picked a good day to go since it was a bit overcast and not a great beach/pool day! We saw lots of interesting sea creatures and thought that it was a very interesting exhibit to see - definitely worth going to! (the first three pictures are courtesy of my sister in law)

Cole

Fishies

Shark teeth :)

'We all live in a yellow submarine...'

Jellyfish... ever watched the movie "Seven Pounds"

The token 'MOC' picture... Miles had a picture here with his friend Greg, on his last visit, right before we were married - look how much has changed in 11 short years :)

We got the family audio package so we could listen to info at each stop...

Mango ice cream... mmmm!

The gang

We humored Cole & let him have a 'listen' too

My Boys

Cole

Cole & Liam

Ethan

Ka'anapali Beach Club - outdoors

The boys LOVE LOVE LOVE the pool! Doesn't matter where we are or what options they have, they will almost always pick the pool :) We had a few fun days at the pool, on the beach and also did some sightseeing during our week in Maui.

W&J

L&K

Mommy & Cole

Mom's & Boys :)

Our pink pyramid

Overlooking our resort pool and beach

Resort & pool

The cabana that we had access to for an entire day

The boys would beg daddy/Uncle Miles to throw them!!!

Coley wanted independence soooo bad - in his mind he was an Olympic swimmer and was most annoyed that he needed to be held on to!

Buddies - the 8 year olds

Buddies - the 5&6 year olds

Buddies - the 3& 4 year olds

Beautiful beach...

Beach boys!

We were on the 9th floor (still a few above us)

Looking down from the 9th floor

Falls by the pool @ the resort (the grounds were beautiful)

Ethan on one of the horses in the lobby

Ka'anapali Beach Club - indoors

This is the resort we stayed at in Maui - we transferred a week of our timeshare there and Miles' brother & family did the same. They must have seen where we were from, that it was the same timeshare transfer and the same last name, because they put us in side by side rooms! This worked out great with the boys, for doing laundry etc etc. We had a really great week and it was one of the trip highlights, definitely a change of pace from being in busy Waikiki and on the ship!

Ethan & Cole just sitting in the shower... no apparent reason but a cute picture of them both!

Cousins hanging out

first nights supper - pizza from Costco!

The living room (standing at the front door)

The living room (standing at the patio door)

Bedroom (patio door behind me) the door straight ahead leads to the bathroom and a door to the left of that leads to the living room

Bathroom from one angle - door at left leads to living room; door on right is the potty :)

Other view of bathroom... it was big!

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....