The day after their wedding some friends of theirs hosted a beach party at Ala Moana Park. Beck made a friend and Maile showed everyone her hula hoop moves.
That night Chris I. had organized a small surprise birthday dinner for Ann. We took a taxi to the Japanese restaurant and just as our cab pulled into the parking lot, Ann and Chris were exiting their car. Hansel and I ducked while Chris steered Ann around the back of our cab. But the surprise was quickly revealed when we realized we had nowhere to go but inside the restaurant. Ann was surprised but had wondered why Chris was so insistent that they get to the restaurant by 6p. Leilani and Hannah joined shortly after. The restaurant had a great kids menu that included origami instructions for the origami paper they had on the table. At the end of dinner, they brought out a basket of toys the kids could choose from, like a dentist office.
Chris steathly had ordered a cake from the restaurant ahead of time. It was a "sweet potato" cake but not the orange/yellow sweet potatoes we have here but a purple kind, which is not taro. It didn't taste like sweet potato either, but it was yummy nonetheless. The cake had a cheesecake-type of texture.
Another night we saw Roger, who lives just a couple of blocks from the main strip of Waikiki. Wow, is Waikiki expensive. I think we spent almost $20 on my veggie sandwich.
Throughout our trip, the kids spent a lot of time in our resort's new pool, which had a bunch of different slides. Below is a photo of Maile with Al. Hansel commented that when he took the kids he was too busy watching Beck that Maile went on and off the slides on her own. I only made it to the pool once our whole trip and that was a week after being in Hawaii.
Mathis had a great time during our trip, too. The camera doesn't lie.
The day before we headed home we rented a car and went to the Dole Plantation and the surf town, Haleiwa, with Leilani, Hannah, Leilani's mom and brother, and Al's cousin. I've been to the Dole Plantation a couple of times and have never gone through the giant maze. We thought the kids would love it, and they did. I did not make it into the maze this time either because I had Mathis slung to me and wanted to spare my back.
After the maze, we rode the Pineapple Express, a kids train that goes through the pineapple fields. In the below photo, the train looks like it's far away but really it's just a small train.
It was a great trip even with three, but I'm sure it'd be a different story if Mathis were mobile.
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