Our last full day in Hawaii was Noni's 60th birthday! We had some cards and a few presents for her when we all got up.
The girls were excited to give her the cards they made. :)
Happy birthday to you...
We gave her a necklace with the birthstones of all the grandkids.
Then we got suited up and sun-screened and headed down for one last morning at the beach. I don't think I've mentioned that you can only use reef-safe sunscreen in Hawaii, no sprays. I totally understand why and was happy to comply but man that mineral sunscreen is not easy to apply! It took 20-30 minutes to get sunscreen on everyone and this day we had to do it twice. Haha.
Boo grabbed some more plumeria on the way to the beach and put some in Noni's hair.
The girls wanted to make a birthday sign with balloons in the sand.
The waves were bigger this day and we kept getting our creations washed away and scooting further up the beach.
Peanut discovered you could make really cool drip-sand castles out of the soupy-wet sand and all the teenagers joined her.
We made a barrier and twice the waves got over it but we finally finished our happy birthday sign!
The girls kept trying to body surf the waves.
I'm not sure what was in the water this day but Lou ran out at one point crying and saying something bit her in the booty and sure enough she had a red welt on her leg just under her bum cheek. Then the other kids started coming out and everyone had little red welts in various places. I still don't know what it was but it seemed pretty localized because we went just twenty or thirty feet to the left and nothing else happened. The next day when we were driving away from the beach on the way to the airport we were saying, "Goodbye beach, goodbye waves!" and Lou yelled out, "And goodbye whatever bit me in the booty!" Haha!
Snorkeling pictures tomorrow!
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