My Brother's Hawaii Vacation

Last week, my brother, Gable came out to visit Doug and I in Hawaii for his Spring Break. It was an action packed week. He got in on Friday, and we took most of that day to relax, eat, get Hawaii necessities (snorkel, air mattress, groceries, fishing wire, etc.). Saturday morning we went snorkeling, and then took the afternoon to go surfing, My brother has been once in Santa Cruz, and I have never been, so to say the least, it was an entertaining afternoon for Doug to teach us. Sunday morning we left at 5 am to make it at the Shark Dive by 5:30. Gable really enjoyed that, and we are still waiting on our underwater camera pictures for that and surfing. Later that afternoon we went hiking at Maunawili Falls, which is like hiking through a jungle to end up at waterfall with multiple different cliffs to jump off of. Monday we went on another, easier waterfall hike in Waimea Valley, and finished the day at the beach Waimea, where Doug and Gable jumped off the Waimea rock. Tuesday morning, Doug and Gable went surfing and spear fishing, took a boys day away from me. And finally on Wednesday, we finished off the vacation with another full day of surfing, since that was Gabe's number 1 objective for his vacation. Anyways, we all had a blast and took lots of pictures to document all of the fun times.

Utah

Last week, Doug and I had the opportunity to spend the week in Utah while he did some pre-season sells for Platinum Alarms. We had such a fun time, we got to stay at his sister's, Camille's house, and hang out with all her children. Despite the eldest, Mackenzie breaking her wrist on our watch, we all had a blast. She was a trooper though, she didn't even cry and seemed more concerned about what activities she would be unable to participate in for a month instead of the pain. Along with hanging out with our nieces and nephews, we also went to dinner at Sundance with some of Doug's co-workers, which was fun, beautiful, and delicious. We did all of this and more, and still the only pictures we managed to take were of us on the way to and in the airport at our connecting flight in Las Vegas gambling a dollar each on the nickle slots. So typical, we actually had our camera with us the whole trip, but we just kept forgetting to take pictures until our trip was over. Oh well, I guess that is a memory in and of itself.