ALOHA Buds!!

Hi there...I am back and starting to catch up on sleep, work, my Mom's upcoming walk this saturday 11/1 and craft show next weekend 11/8 etc. I am sending all of you big hugs! :o) Kate - Thanks for the fun videos of sweet Reagan and your shop updates. I can't wait to come up soon and help you! It was great to get your update Stace! Michael is getting so big...I can't believe he will be 1 in a few days. He is a cutie pie. Keep us posted. Turn I am so sorry to hear about Sean and his leg...we are keeping him in our prayers. I am sorry that you have to cancel your trips. Hang in there and please keep up that smile. Cris I am glad you are a busy bee with work...don't work too hard! How is wk going? Hows - would love an update...hope the Bunns are doing well!

Our trip to see Blain and Loretta was great but, way too short. Hawaii was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! I will do my best to give you a recap and send a few pics but, I will email you more pics later. We enjoyed seeing where Blain and Loretta live...they have a cute place. We arrived there and they had all the fixings ready for a fabulous little picnic. We enjoyed our picnic at Griffith park which is just beautiful. Then we hiked up to the Griffith Observatory and enjoyed the view. It was great being together and hanging out. The rest of our trip consisted of eating and visiting...just what I wanted. We also enjoyed some fun on their Wii...that was a lot of fun. It was definitely hard to say goodbye. We all miss each other so much! Here is a pic of us on top of the Griffith Observatory...it was quite windy.
Then off to Oahu for 7 days. We were busy bees on this trip. We certainly tried to cover the island. We were greeted with leis at the airport and during our time in Oahu we enjoyed a tour day visiting Pearl Harbor, beautiful beaches, Dole Plantation (yummy pineapple whip dessert!), great views from the island, lunch and much more. Also, during our stay in Oahu we enjoyed snorkeling, beach time, great restaurants and food, a luau, shaved ice desserts, hiking to top of Diamond Head (volcanic crater), sunsets and much more. The city of Honolulu where we stayed was very touristy so we ventured out quite a bit on the island. Here are pics of us at the luau and of sunset at "sunset beach".

Then we flew to Maui for 4 days. Between the 2 islands I think that we like Maui best mainly because it is more laid back and relaxed and doesn't have the city atmosphere like Honolulu but, we did enjoy both. In Maui we enjoyed a 4 hour snorkel trip and saw beautiful fish and sea turtles! We also drove and hiked Haleakala National Park...huge volcanic crater and we reached 10,000 feet at top....it was like we were in the clouds. We treated ourselves to a spa treatment...I used the fab spafinder gift cert and our Marriott hotel was right next to a Waldorf Astoria resort and for the heck of it I picked up a service menu for their Spa. Well, it was not much different than Marriott. So we enjoyed a couples massage...and we got to enjoy all the spa amenities for an hour before our treatment...special aromatherapy pools and massage showers etc. It was the most incredible spa I have ever been too....love it! So, thank you again for the gift cert. We enjoyed the massage! We also drove the Road to Hana and saw beautiful sites and waterfalls. It was just breathtaking! :o) Kirk was also able to do a night dive which he really enjoyed. The beaches and food in Maui were also amazing. Here are a couple of pretty pics from Maui - the first is from Haleakala crater and the other is from the Road to Hana.

It was certainly a trip of a lifetime! Who knows when we will ever be able to go back? But, it was totally worth it and I am so glad we did it. It was great to getaway and it felt really good to experience this amazing trip! Hawaii is beautiful...even more beautiful than I imagined! :o) It is nice to be home though. I missed you guys!

love ya,
Krame