Thursday, August 11

Day #14 - Aulani - Dad

After running around and having some excursion each and every day, today was truly a day of rest.  I woke up and took my morning run.  On my run, I found the ideal place to go cliff diving, which is my last item on my Hawaii bucket list.  There was no one nearby and I have no clue how deep the water is, but it looked picturesque.  When I think about cliff diving, this is what I picture.  Before anyone gets too worried, I am not going to do it - today.

When I returned, the kids were heading down to the pools.  MJ and I made our way down soon after.  I opened the Shave Ice place by the pool.  The condensed milk on top was great, but the shave ice itself was too solid.  I have become a shave ice snob.  MJ and I went down to the beach to hang out, but we have a beach at our house, so there was nothing too special about it - other than the huge seal that was beached.  We returned to the pool to hang out.  We relaxed by the pool and called the kids down.  We played Boggle with the family and just enjoyed hanging out together.  It truly doesn't matter where I am, when i am with these three people, I am complete and happy.  I enjoyed hanging out with them.

We returned upstairs.  MJ got ready while I pointed out that this was a last opportunity to go down the slides.  The boys and I went down and slid on the two slides then rode the lazy river.  Jake was a great sport and we had a good time hanging out.  We returned upstairs and got ready for dinner.  The boys went on a scavenger hunt, they thought.  MJ and I went out for tacos.  Tacos in Hawaii - life is good.  We met up with the family and shopped.  The day wrapped up with both families watching the Olympics together.

Nothing too exciting, but just a day of relaxation before a 13 hour trip back to NJ.