Sun, Sun and more SUN!

 Today was a beautiful day, it was sunny warm and a perfect day for sitting by the pool eating lunch and then sitting by the beach.....oh and catching a beautiful sunset! perfect day!!

 Ben got in on the boogie boarding action!

 Body surfing to keep us cool!

 Kessler FINALLY listened to us {parents} and put on the goggles with the breather and you could not get him out of the pool. He loved every second of it, he did about 4 laps in the pool with out coming up once.

 Kessler talking to Grandma, telling her all about his new found love, swimming with the goggles and breather on.

 Nothing like sitting on the ocean edge watching the sunset!

B watching the sunset with me and then as I was taking his picture I notice Kessler in the back ground being crazy.

 This butterfly ( at least we think it is this butterfly) we dubbed our "vacation butterfly", we see it everyday flying around. I got lucky to see it land and have my camera at the same time.

 Cool guy out on the waves tonight.

 Love the amazing sunsets!!

Such an amazing day!! I am sad that our days are numbered.  We have had a great time and will cherish every second more. Time to think about how we are going to get home,  this could get tricky! We are not too stressed Ben doesn't have to be back to work until late next week and the only pressing thing would be the kids school, but even that not too worried other than Alivia has something due next week sometime and I don't want to be up till midnight trying to finish;)

Whales, turtles and crabs

 Today was filled with sand, sand in your hair, in your swimsuit, in all the snorkel gear and even the life jackets have some sand stuck in them. We hung out on the beach all morning, playing in the waves and Alivia and I went snorkeling for a good while and followed this cute turtle around. It was a very friendly turtle and was not afraid of people AT ALL. It came so close to us once I could have easily reached out and touched it. However I could see a headline "WHEN TURTLES ATTACK...." and so I quickly made some distance between the two of us. Although other people would gently touch it's shell, I was not so brave. They are amazing creatures, and so graceful and peaceful to watch. I could watch them all day. I wish I knew how to judge it's age, I would say it was middle aged, it was medium sized and often followed a bigger turtle around, and at times the bigger turtle would kind of nudge the other turtle away from him.

 The grounds at this hotel are so amazing!! The trees aren't quite in complete bloom but have some blossoms and the wind blows them off. The boys everyday hand me one of these flowers to put in my hair.

 After lunch we went snorkeling on the other side of the bay and didn't see as many turtles as I thought we would. There were two baby turtles and lots of really cool fish, very colorful fish, with some polka dot puffer fish. This area is not as easy to get in and out of the water because of the rocks and as I was getting out a big wave came up as I was getting out and I scraped my pinky toe. As I was drying off my toe was bleeding  pretty good and as I checked it out I had a pretty good cut. Luckily it stopped bleeding but it is pretty swollen tonight.

 We ended the day in the pool, I brought a few magazines and I keep forgetting to bring them with me but this afternoon I finally got caught up on some of my magazines. It was nice and relaxing.

 This morning as we were at the beach you could see out in the distance a few whales breaching? or coming out of the water and crashing back down, you could also see them blow air out of their blowholes. It was so cool, I would love to see them closer up. One of these times, check it off my bucket list. It was amazing how big the splash was from where I was I bet close up it is just huge!

 Ben and his Canadian skin, we have sun-blocked him up but he still is getting pretty red.

 Kessler and his growing confidence, he is getting more brave jumping off the edges, letting his head go under water. I decided I am going to do a few swimming lessons  for Bauer and Kessler when we get home.

I have been trying hard to keep my face covered while we have been here, but I can't promise I won't come home with raccoon eyes:)

Swimming, Snorkeling and Shopping

 Day started out slow, with the kids sleeping in a little longer than they have been, soon as everyone was fed and ready to go we went swimming for a few hours, lunch and then we headed down to Front street for some window shopping, ABC store and the Whalers store for some souvenirs.

 Outside Bubba Gumps.

 Sharing some Gelato.

 The 140 year old Banyan tree, it has one main trunk with 16 additional trunks.

 This is an example of one of the additional trunks.

 It is still windy and the surf is too high for these little swimmers so we drove to another beach where the surf aint so high. We got Alivia and Cooper to snorkel and they saw lots of fish and a really big sea turtle. We finally talked Bauer into going and he was so funny, once he saw the turtle, that was it he was done. The sand has kept them thoroughly entertained.

 We have used a lot of sunblock but still have some pink shoulders, nothing too painful yet.

 This was a great flat beach right of the main road. We were there when folks were getting off of work, there were a few people who came to the beach to either run, walk and mostly they would put on a mask and their fins and go swim back and forth between these buoys. I thought that was pretty awesome!!

 Never talked to this little kid into going and see the sea turtle in the ocean, he got pretty upset and so he stayed happy on the beach playing with his sand toys.

Brothers making a sand fortress together, they are so funny to watch all the ideas they talk about between the three of them.
I love going on vacation with my little family all the things they talk about in the car, listening to the highlights of their day. I also love listening to how they see the world through there eyes.
We have tried some fun foods, the kids I don't think have ever had gelato, we also bought some POG (passion, orange and guava) juice. We had some really great BBQ from this local Hawaiian place