Friday, August 12

Aulani - Luke

3 days ago, we landed in O'ahu and went to Aulani. Aulani is a great resort. It is made by Disney. When our shuttle arrived, the workers gave stone necklaces to the boys and leis to the girls. We looked out the balcony to see the back of the resort as my dad checked in. We learned that we would get our names on our room cards, and our parents' credit cards would be hooked up with our room key. We were also told that every single day, we would have to get a new wristband that said we were part of the resort. Next, the lady said our room wouldn't be ready until about 4:00. We decided to get changed into our bathing suits and go to the pools. There were many pools and water activities in the back. This is what the back looks like...
We first tried the infinity pool. This pool overlooks the ocean. It isn't that deep, and part of it is in a cave. It looks like this...
We then went to the normal, big pool. Part of it goes into the cave, which the exit for one of the water slides. It looks like this...
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There were also 2 water slides. For one, you sat on the tube. For the other, you went down without a tube. We did both these slides later in the day. For the tube one, there are a lot of sharp turns, and you make a big splash at the end. When it ends, you can go right into the lazy river. For the other one, you couldn't see anything until the end. You splahed right into a cave at the end. They looked like this...
 There is also a lazy river. This lazy river is long, and it has many rapids. There were many places where you would be shot by water. It looked like this in the day...
and this in the night...
There was also a "rainbow reef." The rainbow reef is a salt-water pool that has fish in it. You can use snorkeling supplies to see the fish. We never did this. It looks like this...
There is also a window that you can see the fish and the snorkelers from. It looks like this...
Aquarium glass separates a father from his snorkeling kids as they play rock-paper-scissors together
At 4, we were able to get into our room. We went in, and we saw that it was a 3 bedroom villa. We were supposed to have a 2 bedroom villa. We think the check-in lady upgraded us for free because it would have been tight if we had the original 2 bedroom villa. The floor plan looks like this...

This place was huge. It was awesome! There were 3 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, a full-sized kitchen, a living room, and, for some reason, an empty hallway. This hallway was all to ourselves. It was another way to get into our villa, but our key cards didn't work there. Before going to bed, all the kids watched the beginning of The Truman Show. The next morning, I got towels and my wristband nice and early. We then finished The Truman Show. Later, we went on the slides and into the pools. We also played Boggle. Then, Jake and I went to do a photo scavenger hunt at 6:30. The workers gave us a tablet. After giving an introduction, it told us to find a specific statue. It also said to press ok. We pressed ok, and it took us to the next item. So, we learned it took your word for it. Whenever we had been looking for a long time, we would just press ok. Eventually, we learned that we were setting things off when we pressed ok, like shooting water at people in the pool or lighting something up. We then saw people runnong around taking photos with a sheet of paper. We then figured out that we were given the wrong scavenger hunt. We were bored with the tablet by now, and I didn't even think we were half way done, so we gave the tablet back and went to go get ice cream with our parents. However, I didn't feel well, so I didn't get ice cream. I later got a fever, and I threw up 2 times early yesterday. After packing up, we went to a character breakfast (I was feeling a lot better). We got pictures with many characters. We saw Mickey, Minnie, Chip, Dale, and Stitch. When we got to Stitch, he tried to pick my nose. All of the characters did the hang loose sign for the pictures. We then payed and went into the store. I got a shirt and a pin. Next, we got picked up by the shuttle and left for the airport.