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Hawaii, Thursday the 13th of October

Our next day in Hawaii was more beach! We drove to Mauna Kea beach, which was very close to where we were staying. Thanks to our super helpful guide book we knew to come early and to tell the guards at the gate of the resort that we were "exercising our beach access rights" if they gave us a hard time. They did not give us a hard time. 
For hours my kids sat in the shade with my dad building volcanoes in the sand. They were all called Mt. Nut because they had a hole in the top of the volcano that was filled with the nuts of whatever tree we were sitting under.

After Mt. Nut was built and knocked down several times, Dylan went and played in the water for quite a while. He was having an awesome time but I wasn't vigilant enough and he ended up with a little sun burn and heat exhaustion. It really left him feeling tired and crabby for the rest of the trip. Poor guy. I felt pretty bad about that.

After the beach we went to check out the dolphins at the Hilton resort. For those of you keeping score at home- he's yet another picture of Dylan scowling. Too sick to smile, not too sick to give his sister rabbit ears!
Caitlin was enjoying posing for pictures. Also she only wanted to wear one shoe at a time. I don't know why. She's a mystery sometimes!

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myrna said…
Mysterious Cait! Love these photos. I should get ambitious and share some of mine.
November 5, 2011 at 2:06 PM
Sandy said…
I love all of the Hawaii posts. I have been looking at Hawaii vacations lately - which is actually not usually first on my lists of destinations - but Andrew really wants to go. There must really be something to those shark tooth necklaces! We haven't been in about 5 years...this makes me really think we are due!

Hey, did you know we are King Henry cruising again in March? Are you guys up for it this time?? I know it will be us, Ken and Kim Carlile, Greg and Emy Porter, Christina and Cam Karpowitz, Dave and Robyn Bunkall and who knows who else!! I hope you know you are always invited!!
November 7, 2011 at 2:33 PM
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