day five will forever be known as the day we went whale watching. but what we really did on day five was have a great big misadventure.
it started with the intent to go on an early morning whale watching tour. heather, russ, sean, serena & i set out early. we followed russ's GPS all the way into downtown honolulu {with only one trap-you-forever-no-outlets-carpool-lane incindent along the way}. when the directions got kind of confusing, sean got out his google phone, which is way better apparently, and started a navigation. russ's phone said to go one way. sean's said to go another. we followed sean's. and it took us to some random pier that was most certainly not the pier where our whale watching tour was departing from. and that was that. since we missed the tour, and since we were already in honolulu, we decided to go to a breakfast buffet that we had all been to before {heather & russ on a trip with his fam- us on our honeymoon}. after much driving in terrible, terrible traffic, we found the restaurant and parked the car. we walked the block up to the restaurant, only to find out that it is now closed at breakfast!!! bah!!! pregnant heather was about to lose it!!!! so russ got out his trusty smart phone and discovered that we were 300 feet away from a denny's {blech!!!}. we waited forever outside of denny's and waited forever for our food, but eventually dear, hungry heather {and the rest of us} got our breakfast.
four hours after we set out to our whale watching tour, we left denny's and headed back to the house. i didn't want to burden my parents with watching harper all day, but when i called my mom and told her about our morning, she insisted we go do something fun. heather and russ had driven past a beautiful beach the day before but they didn't have their swimsuits on, so we decided to head back to that beach. {luckily we had brougt all of our swim stuff in case!}
the drive along the coast was absolutely beautiful. we stopped at two beaches. the first {makapuu} was literlly the most beautiful place i have ever seen. the waves were huge so we didn't get in the water much, but it was just so so beautiful that we didn't care.
the second beach was just north up the coast, but i don't know what it was called. also beautiful. and with gentler waves. we spent an hour or so playing at this beach. serena played on the sand mostly and we collected seashells & coral & rocks for her.
{some of the things we collected}
it started with the intent to go on an early morning whale watching tour. heather, russ, sean, serena & i set out early. we followed russ's GPS all the way into downtown honolulu {with only one trap-you-forever-no-outlets-carpool-lane incindent along the way}. when the directions got kind of confusing, sean got out his google phone, which is way better apparently, and started a navigation. russ's phone said to go one way. sean's said to go another. we followed sean's. and it took us to some random pier that was most certainly not the pier where our whale watching tour was departing from. and that was that. since we missed the tour, and since we were already in honolulu, we decided to go to a breakfast buffet that we had all been to before {heather & russ on a trip with his fam- us on our honeymoon}. after much driving in terrible, terrible traffic, we found the restaurant and parked the car. we walked the block up to the restaurant, only to find out that it is now closed at breakfast!!! bah!!! pregnant heather was about to lose it!!!! so russ got out his trusty smart phone and discovered that we were 300 feet away from a denny's {blech!!!}. we waited forever outside of denny's and waited forever for our food, but eventually dear, hungry heather {and the rest of us} got our breakfast.
four hours after we set out to our whale watching tour, we left denny's and headed back to the house. i didn't want to burden my parents with watching harper all day, but when i called my mom and told her about our morning, she insisted we go do something fun. heather and russ had driven past a beautiful beach the day before but they didn't have their swimsuits on, so we decided to head back to that beach. {luckily we had brougt all of our swim stuff in case!}
the drive along the coast was absolutely beautiful. we stopped at two beaches. the first {makapuu} was literlly the most beautiful place i have ever seen. the waves were huge so we didn't get in the water much, but it was just so so beautiful that we didn't care.
the second beach was just north up the coast, but i don't know what it was called. also beautiful. and with gentler waves. we spent an hour or so playing at this beach. serena played on the sand mostly and we collected seashells & coral & rocks for her.
{some of the things we collected}
later in the day, we had a girls moment- went to dole and haleiwa for dinner. the guys went to ted's bakery for the "best burgers of their lives".
and early to bed again :)
4 comments:
despite your misadventure, look at those stunning views!! wow.
Great pictures! I live out here and still have yet to go to half of these places. I hope you enjoy yourselves!
First of all, love the name Ariel. I tell people I have a sister named Ariel sometimes (I don't).
Second, I absolutely LOVE collecting coral (go-fig).
Third, enjoy the rest of your trip!
Looks lovely, its always been a dream of mine to go to hawaii
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