We *heart* Hawaii {Part I}

Our first blog of the year will be about our trip to Oahu island, Hawaii. We had a chance to go to Hawaii for a 10 day vacation in November 2010. I never had a chance to update our blog with the pictures from the trip. It was such a blast. After the break, we were so busy moving in completely to our house, with work and other things I just never had time to work on the pictures and update the blog. Now, I'm slowly getting back to it. Hopefully, when our new computer arrives it will speed up my photo processing time so I could work on the rest of the pictures from the trip as well as from the holiday season :) I'm still quite behind on everything.

The whole family of 7 of us cruised around town like locals in our big giant white Suburban. It was packed with luggage and 7 people--quite amazing. I'm thinking about getting one if we have more than 4 kids. Spacious!

Because we are in a big family, my in-laws decided to rent a condo that we could all stay in together and feel more like home. This is the picture right outside of the condo in the North shore of Oahu Island.

 

And the big golf course as our back yard, too bad we're not into golf otherwise we certainly would enjoy it here

 

The whole time we were there, it was so much fun to see the wild chickens running around. We even heard the rooster singing every morning, which woke Megan up almost every single day we were there. It reminded me of the old days living in Vietnam and how the chickens ran around in our back yard since my grandma used to raise them.

 

Because we were there during the winter months, the waves were monstrous. These pictures are from Waimea beach on our second day being there.

 

The kids loved playing the game 'last man standing', lol

Brett was so proud that he didn't get knocked over by the previous wave. But wait, there's a big one coming his way :) 



Beautiful beach scene; ahh writing this blog made me miss Hawaii so much.

We were there on an overcast day so it was raining a little bit. I was able to capture this picture of the sun ray hitting through the thick cloud.

The famous rock where we saw a lot of people jumping off. I don't know how to swim very well so I didn't have the guts to do it. One thing about the beach here, it drops into deep sea very quick. It was pretty deep right by the little rock there. Molly and I used a boogie board to swim out there once.

Molly was being buried under sand, then made into a mermaid

Tasty dinner at Haleiwa Joe's, a must have when you're in town. We loved the food here.

The family at the dinner table