The Thompson Ohana at the Grand Canyon of Kauai
Tom's work holds conferences on the island of Kauai, so we make a family vacation out of it. We flew over on a Friday afternoon and came home the following Thursday afternoon. The flight is 22 minutes long. The kids were so excited to go on an airplane and be at the airport watching all the planes! After about 15 minutes of being on the plane, Melissa said, "I'm done! I'm done with the airplane now Mommy!" Luckily there was only a few minutes left! Could you imagine if we flew to the mainland?! That's a 5 hour flight! Guess we won't be doing THAT any time soon!
We stayed in a wonderful Plantation Cottage - a complete 2 bedroom house (cottage) surrounded by lots of trees and the ocean. We spent most of our time playing outside on the grass, climbing trees, swimming in the pool, swinging in the hammocks, taking walks, and the highlight of the trip for the kids was the Bathtub! Our bathtub has had a leak and we haven't used it in almost 2 years so the kids take showers every day. To have a big bath tub and be able to play with toys - WOW!!! What a Joy! (Daddy fixed our bathtub the first weekend we were home and now it is incorporated into our daily routine! The kids are thrilled to have their OWN BATHTUB!! Who could imagine?!)
In fact, most of my pictures of the trip are of them in the bath!
Here's Melissa at the airport...Ready To Go!
The best part of the vacation...the Bathtub!!!
My nephew Dan & his wife Chrisy informed me that they were coming to Hawaii - they'd be on Oahu one day and the rest of the time on Kauai. The timing was perfect...I picked them up at the airport, brought them to my house, showed them around real quick, we all packed into the car, Dan drove us back to the airport and dropped us off, and they were able to drive our car and sleep at our house. The next day they flew to Kauai - which we were already there. We got to see them a couple times and that was a real blessing - they are a real neat couple. It would have been nice if they had their kids with them (for us anyway!) so we could get to know them as well. Seeing them made me miss being in California closer to our family...but this is the way it is and we have a wonderful life here in Hawaii. God has truly blessed us!
This is Dan & Chrisy with Mick & Melissa
Mommy & her Babies!
Mick going swimming...OOPS! He forgot to take off his shirt!
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