Lexi has had a bad cold for about a week now. Granted she played a practice and 3 games on Saturday, but she has been pretty flemmy. Shawn took her to the doctor today as I had a meeting, these were the notes she made:
-Head ache small consistenly
-eyes, fine
-nose, stuff and raw all the time
-Mouth. dry and lots of phlegm
-Throat, hurst and coughing hurst a lot
If we can't be up skiing then I like to be doing these things....
Lexi had a basketball practice and 3 games today!!
Alegra had a scrimmage at Westminsters College and a practice up in Farmington!!!
And Cruz got to ski with friends today!
Alegra and 2 of her friends played hooky from school on Wednesday and went up skiing at Snowbird!
and she wanted to sit in the front seat for the first time!
It's been a bit of a challenge to get back to Utah time and to not be in vacation mode, but the kids have done it and I'm proud of them. Shawn and I went up to Farmington to celebrate Fran's 50th birthday. His sisters and parents flew in and surprised him and we drove up Friday night to see them and get dinner together. It was really nice!
We left our house on Tuesday 1/9 at about 11:30 a.m. to fly to LA and then onto Oahu, Hawaii.
THURSDAY 1/11 - My 49th birthday!
We woke up pretty early again Hawaii time. We walked to Sunny's Local Grind for breakfast burritos that were yummy. We decided to walk about a mile through the shopping district to get to the better part of the beach. This beach had more waves for the kids to play in. The kids boogie boarded but it was too windy for them to surf. We walked back to our hotel after a few hours and had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and split a couple of açaà bowls that Lexi and Shawn ran to get from Goofy's. Then we drove to Pearl Harbor. We had a 3:15 boat scheduled to go check out the USS Arizona (sunken ship) but the power had just gone out at Pearl Harbor so the people told us we should probably jump on the earlier boat. It was very sobering to be at the Memorial. Unfortunately, we couldn't watch the movie but we talked about the importance of Pearl Harbor. It all worked out because then it started to rain when we were leaving Pearl Harbor. We drove up towards the North Shore. It was raining and there was a fair amount of traffic. We went thought this fun town called Haleiwa. It was raining but we still around to some fun small surf stores and did some shopping. We had a hard time finding a place with indoor seating - as we were cold and wet from the rain. We finally found a little pizza joint called JAX. It had really yummy pizza and salads. We continued our drive to the Turtle Bay area and checked into our AirBnB at about 8 p.m. We were all pooped by then.
FRIDAY 1/12
Shawn and I got up before the kids and walked around the Turtle Bay resort area that was close to the condo we were renting. When we got back from our walk the kids were up. We ate some cereal at the condo and then headed out to do the Ehukai Pill Box Hike. It was muddy, jungly, and beautiful. At about a mile up there was an old bunker with a great look out at Sunset Beach and we could see the Pipeline wave from there. It was sunny but pretty windy, so no surfers were out. I loved that hike because there were hardly any people on it. The North Shore was just so much more relaxed and kinda country feeling. The kids said that was more what they were expecting Hawaii would be like. After our hike, we walked across the street to look at the waves at Sunset Beach. They were huge but the wind was messing them up so no surfers were out. On the way back to our condo to change into swim suits we stopped at a place called Banzai Bowls, which had some yummy acai bowls we shared. After changing we drove to the other side of Laei to meet the kids surf instructor Andy. We met him at Punalu'u Beach. I had called 808 Surfing that morning and setup a lesson for Cruz and Alegra. The beach we met Andy at never got very deep so it was kinda interesting surfing. Cruz and Alegra were both able to catch waves with Andy's help though. It was a 2 hour lesson. After the 1st hour Alegra hit her nose with the surf cord and kinda had enough. Lexi decided she would give it a shot. She listened to all the instructions Andy had given the 2 on the beach, so she was good to go. Lexi got right up when she went out there. Shawn was able to walk way out in the ocean and almost be next to them to take pictures. He stood out there the whole 2 hour lesson. It wasn't super warm and it was windy. At least the sun would come and go from behind clouds. I am so proud of all of them! After surfing there was a Shrimp Shack food truck across the street that we grabbed some coconut shrimp, steak, and mozzarella sticks to share. Then we stopped in Laie to see my friends Cheryl (my old roommate) and her husband Chris and Charisse (Cheryl's sister who I went to Jerusalem with), who I haven't seen in probably 30 years. The Goo family have been a staple in that area even back to when my mom was at BYU Hawaii. Their grandpa had a market called Goo's (their last name). Cheryl and Charisse just lost their dad about a week ago, which is sad. After our visit, we stopped to check out some little street side shops and food trucks right in Laei, tried a coconut. After, we came back to the condo and the girls swam in the community pool, even though it had started raining. Then we went out to get dinner. On our drive to a dinner place we stopped at Ted's Bakery to pick up some of their famous chocolate haupia pie, carrot cake, and a strawberry thing. We ended up at a food stand area kinda across the street from Shark Cove area. Cruz and I got food from a Mexican Food place, it was ok. Shawn and the girls got burgers from 7 Brothers, which looked tasty. We came home to eat our super yummy desserts!
SATURDAY 1/13
