Hawaii

We had such a great time in Hawaii- beatiful weather- about 80 the entire time! We left on a Friday- we flew from Salt Lake to Seattle- where we had a 5 1/2 hour layover, I thought I was going to go crazy- then we had a 5 1/2 hour flight- I was so happy once we made it to Honolulu, we got a taxi(if you are in Hawaii- never get a taxi!) and I about died- $40 later we were at our hotel and starving, at this point I was a little grouchy with the events of the day, everywhere was closed for eating, so we grabbed a sandwich at the ABC store. Saturday we met up with my parents- they went on a 7 day cruise of all the Hawaiian Islands then got off on Ohua, we rented a car and headed up to North Beach- where we went and visited the temple and went to the Polensian Cultural Center- what a great day we had there- it was very neat. We stayed for dinner and the big show.

Zak and I in front of the Hawaii temple

This is the road that leads up to the temple

Polenisian Cultural Center

That is a guy at the top of the tree- he climbed this cocunut tree in about 30 seconds

The river show- each island did a performance- very cool. This is where we got the best ice cream ever- they were selling it before the show started and it was so, so, so good!

My mom and I

At the Lua Ou, these boys were very good looking and oh yah- that is a pig.

On Sunday was the start of the Farm Bureau convention, Zak and I had to be there at 7am to find out what we were suppose to do, they told us they would announce the top 10 at the general opening session at 9am, we really didn't think we would make the top 10 and that we could just enjoy Hawaii- finally at 10:45 they announced the top 10 and we were in the top 10. Stress hit immediately, I honestly didn't think we would be in the top 10, because I was reading about everyone else, and there was some very impressive people, who have done so much and most couples both husband and wife worked in an ag related job- so we were kind of shocked!!! We had to go to another meeting at 11:15 to find out what time we would be giving our presentation to the judges- we got 2:00, so we ran back to the hotel and changed and I practiced on giving the presentation, we then went back to the convention center and gave our presentation- it went okay we went over our time and didn't have time for the judges to ask us any questions. After that we met up with my parents for a quick dinner. Then that night we had a rehersal for 2 hours what we were supposed to do if we won.

Then on Monday back to the convetion center for another 2 hour long meeting where they announced the winners- it actually went almost 3 hours- but we didn't win. The winner won a brand new Chevy pickup. We were glad when it was all over- so that we could enjoy some more of Hawaii.

On stage to announce the winners.

After being in so many meetings and sitting so much we decided to take a hike up to diamond head crater- it was a 3 mile hike from our hotel. I love the trees around Hawaii.

At the top of the parking lot of diamond head looking out- we didn't get to climb up diamond head because they were closing up. But it was still a beatiful view from the parking lot.

This is a statue of Duke, who said all could surf- just not royalty.

On Tuesday we went to Pearl Harbor- what a sombering feeling.

The Arizona that sunk and is still there

On Wednesday we went to Hunama Bay to go snorkeling- this was our first time to go, it took me awhile to catch on, but it was way fun, I saw turtle, lots and lots of fish, some were huge, it made me a bit nervous- but they would just swim on by. It was a great day!

Our final night in Hawaii, our walk along the beach, just soaking in the warm air and how beatiful it was!

Zak's mom watched the girls and the girls were great and we are so thankful that she could watch the kids for us so that we could have this experience!