Hawaii!!

We were SO excited when our Hawaii trip finally arrived! I can't remember if I explained this but on our trip to California in January they switched our flights and we ended up with longer flights and a longer layover so they offered to give us $200 vouchers (each) that had to be used within the next year. 

This summer T started looking for places to go. We were thinking about going to Texas for Noni's 60th birthday but he randomly checked Hawaii (somewhere we've always wanted to go and our 20th anniversary is also coming up) and it was cheaper to go to Hawaii than to Texas! 

He found a flash deal that got us flights, after the vouchers, for $75 each! Crazy! After we told the girls Bug's boyfriend asked if he could come with us if he bought his own ticket and we said yes so there were 9 of us with Noni.

Even though we had to leave our house at 3:15AM everyone was hyped up and ready to go!

 It was really nice traveling with 9 people because we got three rows of seats and no one had to sit by strangers. T and I sat with Peaches on the first flight.

 

 

Noni, Peanut, and Lou sat together.

 

 

 

And the teenagers sat together.

 

 

We all got brief cat naps but we were definitely tired!

We had a short layover in California and got breakfast and lunch to eat later on the plane.

 

 

You can kind of see behind and to the left of us in the pic above....

 

  

 

I truly felt like I was on vacation because for the 5 hour flight Noni took the littles and we got Peanut...easy peasy. Haha. I got to read a third of my book and watch a movie! So nice! Thank you Noni! 

 

 

 

I am not a big fan of flying so going for 5 hours over nothing but water wasn't exactly fun...especially when it was bumpy for a good portion of the trip, but we were so exited when we finally saw that Hawaiian coastline!

 

 

 

 

The girls made some friends with the family between our seats and they gave us a few Maui tips since they'd been there several times.

 

 

As soon as we got our bags and headed outside we were hit with those warm Hawaiian breezes!

 

 

 It was sprinkling when we arrived but nothing major.

 

 

We originally planned to get two convertibles, not realizing they only seat 4, so we switched to a Jeep for one of the cars. I got to drive that one and it was fun zipping around in it!

The kids and T were excited about the convertible but it was definitely smaller inside than we had anticipated, haha. We ended up trading it for another Jeep a couple days later because the people in the backseat literally had no leg room. The backs of the seats in front of them were pressing against their knees. BUT they had a lot of fun driving with the top down for the two days we kept it!

 

 

 After leaving the airport we took the recommendation of friends and hit Costco and Safeway for groceries and then headed to the condo.

 

 

I took WAY too many pictures so prepare for an onslaught for the next month! :P