A Weekend in Waikiki

The Ala Moana hotel had a great deal for $40 hotel rooms if you stayed for three nights.  Matt and Mark heard about the deal and promptly organized our mini staycation.   We had a 3-day weekend for Statehood day so we packed up Wednesday night and as soon as school was out on Thursday we headed in to Waikiki.  I was a little nervous about how the kids would sleep all in one room and if we would get any sleep but it worked out perfectly. The only bummer was that I took my phone in to the Apple store because I was getting an error message and when they updated it I lost everything.  As soon as I got home I synced it to get everything back...good news!  Bad news was that all but a couple of pictures I took over the weekend were lost.   So since I basically organize my thinking around pictures good luck following this...

The Buelows weren't able to come down the first night because Gavin had a fever (it only lasted one night thankfully!) so we went to dinner and by the time we got all moved in it was bedtime for the kids.  After we put them down Matt and I hung out on the patio to unwind before we crashed too.


In the morning it was rise n shine at 6 o'clock as usual...we hung around the hotel for a while and then went window shopping at the mall while we waited for the Buelows to make it down.

Abby had been excited about the zoo all week so naturally Matt was possibly more excited to take her.  Unfortunately, as soon as we got there she fell asleep ( in her defense it was nap time).  Matt was a little disappointed and decided to wake her up.  The kids had a pretty good time at the zoo but they definitely had their moments after G. being sick and all of them missing their naps.

 It was off to Kobe for dinner and we packed up the kiddos in the stroller.   The food and the kids were amazing! After dinner we were able to put the kids to bed while Steph and Mark watched them and we headed across the parking lot of the hotel to Mai Tai's in the mall.  We just stayed for a few hours but it was a perfect little get away for us!

Saturday we walked over to the Hilton Hawaiian Village and set up camp on the lagoon.  We gt some great relaxing time while the kids played and it felt like much more of a vacation than walking around the zoo all day!

Saturday evening we went to Dukes for dinner and the kids were a little antsy and tired but we made the best of it...you really can't go wrong at Duke's.

Sunday came too fast and we were already packing up.  On our way out of town we stopped at the Sheraton Waikiki to hang by the pool but it was pretty crowded and windy so we didn't stay too long.

All in all it was a great weekend and I had to at least write down what we did since I have no pictures:(.