Spring Break Part 12...

Breakfast by the pool, jacuzzi, sun, water, fruit...these kids have it made!

One of the surprises on the trip was how well Jack and Stacy got along.  How well they could 'play' together.  I still needed to follow Stacy around as I wanted to keep and eye on her and Jack sometimes would 'ditch' her so I couldn't fully rest and relax like someone else who won't be mentioned but her name rhymes with BAYA.

Playing "Marco Polo".  This was problematic because Stacy was always it and Jack was always rubbing it in which lead to some arguments which made me get into the pool and playing with one of them at a time.

Someone mustered up the energy after one of her many names to photo bomb the kids:

Spring Break Part 11...

Day 3 of our vacation and it was more of the same except Aya joined in on the early morining water slide rides.  Going down the inner tube with Stacy is much more calm:

Jack was a spaz and was teamed up with Aya this time:

Then she wanted to go with Stacy:

I realized I took so many more pictures because I bought a water proof case before our vacation.  The official canon case was like $200 bucks but I found a cheap knock off version for $20 bucks and it was great:

Hanging out in one of the infinity pools:

Spring Break Part 10...

Since we were on the 'other' side of the island, I figured traffic would be lighter on the weekend so drove back to the Waikiki area to do some shopping:

Dinner at Alan Wongs:

I was so full from dinner but I couldn't pass up a trip to Leonards:

The kids claimed to be so full and didn't want any but once they saw me eating my malasada's they wanted some and ended up eating some of mine in the car!

Of course they totally loved it.  Good thing we had a rental car.  Jack must have spilled 1/2 the box of sugar in the back seat!

When we got back to the hotel, "Mickey" left us a nice surprise dessert.

Spring Break Part 9..

Stacy loves the water and she got her second wind in the afternoon.  She went down the water slide time and time again!  Stacy at first went the normal way down a water slide:

But that got boring and she started coming down all sorts of different ways:

 

Jack thinks he "controls the water"

Spring Break Part 8...

When Stacy, Jack and I weren't at the pool, I was taking Stacy around the property to take pictures with the Disney characters that were on site.  We ran into Mickey on accident:

Then saw Goofy:

Lilo but Stitch isn't there ever...I dunno why:

This one was funny.  We were waiting for Micky and Minnie and we were second in line.  A few minutes before the picture taking is suppose to start, Stacy had to go to the bathroom.  I told her we can't leave our spot so I made her go in the bushes is pee.  I forgot it wasn't as easy for her to pee like a boy so I had to hand wash her cover up later:

Spring Break Part 7...

The kids water park did not have heated water and let me tell you it was COLD.  I dunno how the kids stayed in the water so long.  They would be shivering and their lips would literally turn purple. Jack was waiting for this large 'bucket' of water to be dumped on him:

Stacy wanted to join in on the fun as well but she wasn't as quick as Jack:

And gets there too late to get in on the action:

Spring Break Part 6...

Once the inner tube water slide line got long and once we were bored of the lazy river, we headed to the kids area for smaller water slides.  It starts out all nice and fun:

But leave it to an older kid to NOT wait until the first water slider is at the end and getting out:

Luckily Stacy doesn't care and is just rushing out so she can be ahead of Jack in line again!

Spring Break Part 5...

If we weren't on the tandem inner tube on the water slide or going down the pitch black water slide we were on the lazy river:

Who needs more water when we are in the water??

This was our day...every day...for 7 days:

Spring Break Part 4...

Both my kids are like Aya and they prefer the pool to the ocean.  I told Jack and Stacy at least ONE time during our stay they have to swim in the ocean.  Both just 'groaned' but reluctantly agreed.   Jack decided to get his over with ASAP and we went snorkeling the man made lagoon.

It took Jack a while to get used to the snorkel.  I thought we was going to quit and give up but he stuck with it:

It was like going to our own Hanauma Bay without driving to the OTHER side of the island and being with all the other tourist.  We got to see some decent fish:

 And even Aya was being a voyeur and checking us out from the observation window:

Aya's view of her two favorite dudes:

Spring Break Part 3...

Now that King Jack has gotten out of bed, we have to tour the ground again so Jack knows where everything is:

Somehow Jack seems to be older looking in this picture.  He no longer looks like a little toddler or little kid...now he is just a big boy:

Luckily the day before we figured out how everything works.  By saving our seats, that means, I was waking up before 6:00 and putting towels on our chairs by 6:30 am so we could have our chairs reserved for 8-9 hours of pool time!  This also meant we were first in line to get our wrist bands so we could ride the water slide as many times as we could before the line gets long.

Wipeout!

Spring Break Part 2...

The other problem with the Aulani is that is way on the OTHER side of the island.  Sure in mileage it isn't that far maybe 25-30 miles or so from Waikiki but with the traffic and slow drivers on the island it is like an hour drive.  Who wants to drive in traffic on vacation?!   So, we decided we are going to stick to this side of the island.

We woke up super EARLY the next day...due to the time difference.  Jack who NEVER sleeps in, totally was sleeping in, so Aya, Stacy and I went for a walk:

Aulani has their own beach and lagoon:

 A nice walk to work up an appetite for breakfast:

Spring Break Part 1...

Normally when we go on vacation I snap several hundred pictures.  Out of those pictures I am lucky to keep half of them.  I don't know what happened on this past spring break but I went crazy with the picture taking and I took over 2000 pictures!!!  Surprisingly I kept over 50% of the pictures...so be prepared for Spring Break 2015!

This year we decided to go to the Aulani on Oahu.  I guess now some of us can sleep on the flight since we don't have to look after the kids on the flight anymore:

 I had some reservations about going to the Aulani.  I am not that much of a 'Disney' guy.

As soon as we got to the hotel I realized, "I don't like kids".  I like my "OWN" kids...I don't like other people's kid.  The problem with Aulani is that it is a family place and everyone who goes has a family...which means kids!  The place was packed out with kids.  It was also spring break so the hotel was busy.

Still I would rather be on vacation then work!!  The kids and I went straight to the pool for some afternoon swimming and checking out the place so we will be all set for day #2

Dodgers...

We went to our first Dodger game of the season against Seattle.

 We wanted to get there early, but there was a lot of traffic that night but we still made it on time to celebrate Jackie Robinson night:

Jack taking a picture so I could be in one of the photos:

Dodgers won 5-2.