Aloha and Mahalo!

Can you guess where we just got home from? Oahu, HAWAII!!! I can't explain how incredible it was. Just so relaxing, fun, and adventurous. It really was paradise. We went with my brother and sister in-law Brady and Melissa. Melissa is pregnant too-we're only 2 1/2 weeks apart! So, we both waddled together and peed every 15 minutes together :). So precious. haha. As a quick overview, highlights of our trip were lots of beach time and snorkeling, saw 7 whales collectively, snorkeled with a sea turtle, went to Pearl Harbor, went to the Laie temple to do sealings (SO gorgeous), the Polynesian Cultural Center, Hunama Bay, Diamond Head Hike, Punchbowl, and the Dole Plantation. And for a more detailed day by day play by play with pictures see below :) (Warning: Picture OVERLOAD but I couldn't help it:))

Thursday: Long 3 flights to get to Oahu. When we arrived we went to dinner and grocery shopping for breakfasts and snacks (we had a kitchen in our hotel)





Friday: Snorkeling at Hunama Bay (a nature preserve bay-SO GORGEOUS!!!) and saw so many fish!, went to the Honolulu Aquarium, Chilled at the beach, went shopping on "the strip" of Hawaii, went to dinner
Hanama Bay:




Snorkelin' it up at Hunama Bay:







Aquarium:






Saturday: Whale watching (saw 5 whales), Diamond Head hike (very uphill 1 1/2 mile hike with a GORGEOUS view of the island from the top!), Delicious snow cones after hike (I still think about this shaved ice!), boys went snorkeling while us pregos sat on the beach and we got to see a MOM AND BABY WHALE JUMPING out of the water from the beach!!! (Incredible!), went to see the movie "We bought a Zoo"-super cute!

Whale Watching:






Diamond Head hike:
(View of Diamond Head (what we hiked) from the whale watching tour):











I'm drooling right now:



Amazing whales Melissa and I got to see from the beach:




Sunday: Church (the most beautiful LDS church I've ever seen!), Punchbowl Cemetery (Memorial cemetery for vetrans-so gorgeous and neat-also had an amazing view!), went snorkeling and saw a HUGE SEA TURTLE that was swimming with us for a while at an arms length away!!!
Church:



Punchbowl:






Our friend the SEA TURTLE!:




Monday: Pearl Harbor (We saw the USS Arizona, the bowfish submarine, the Missouri Ship and the meuseums), went to the Dole Plantation and ate yummy pineapple ice cream, and went to the North Shore and watch surfers and the sunset

Pearl Harbor:














Dole Plantation:






North Shore (Serious Waves):










Tuesday: Temple Sealings at Laie Temple, Polynesian Cultural Center
Temple:





PCC:










Wednesday and Thursday: Flea Market, Snorkeling/Boogie Boarding/Beach Hopping