Spring Break 2011 part 1

We have ten days off for Spring Break, and I don't know about you, but we started ours off with a BANG here in Hawaii with a Tsunami Warning! Yes, we were under watch since that devastating earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, then it turned into a warning with the Civil Defense setting off the siren every hour until 2:45a.m. Sure enough about 6 hours after it was "lifted" for us at about 7:44a.m. on Friday, we were hit with some pretty tough waves that did some damage on the Big Island and Maui . Of course nothing at all like Japan, but still pretty scary!

Besides that we have gone to the zoo, and to the Hale Koa, and to the Children's Discovery Center in downtown Honolulu. We have been having a lot of fun! Here are some pictures of all of our adventures. Hope you guys have all had a good week!

The first group of photos are from the zoo. We ended up taking another family with us, minus the adults, so it was 11 children 2 adults in all!!! The Dustin's (their mom just had knee surgery) have 4, I only had 3 of mine, and the McIlquham's have 4 as well. Also, just to confuse you more, the Dustin's have twins too!! (A boy and a girl, also, they are 7:)) At any rate, Jasmine and I did well managing them all, they were really pretty good, until the end when we had one injured (my Hailey..that is another story), and the Dustin twins felt like throwing-up, plus my Avery had a very upset tummy (until she was able to go potty at home, again another story).

This is a cute pix. of Evelyn, Marcos, Audrey, Avery, and Jacob

The three amigos Hailey, Emma, and Julia

Here is most of them except Clay, Jacob, and Audrey you can't see, she is sitting directly behind Julia...

Here is one of the Dustin twins Charity, and my twins...

This is by far my favorite picture. Audrey was sooo excited to chase the birds and even the peacock, despite our warnings!!!

By this point we had three men down, and Avery was about to be the fourth. (you can see her at the bottom, she was crying that her tummy hurt.)

This next set is from the Hale Koa Resort in Waikiki. It is a military hotel and is open to all military whether you are staying there or just going to enjoy their amenities. We went with Lucy and two of her girls. It was so beautiful, the weather was great!


These next two are of Josh and Hunter, she was really great at playing with him.