Wrapping up Hawaii 2016

Variety - Hawaii 2016

This vacation was great for many, many reasons - and one of the best was that it was shared by family and friends.  These photos of our last few days will remind us of these times:

Ted played a lot of tennis, which he loves.  He was on the 'on call' list at the Mauna Kea tennis resort, Mauna Lani hotel, and the Fairmont Orchid so when they had a guest that wanted to play they would call him up to come and play. It was a sweet deal for Ted because he played for no or minimal cost.

Ted on Centre Court at the Fairmont Orchid

We also spent time with Ken and Shirley at their condo, lots of laughs and good times there playing a dice game called 'Nusht' (spelling?)

Ruby is becoming quite the chef, and did a great job making pancakes and smoothies for us on sleepovers.

Kaidence and Ruby had a treasure hunt out in the back of our place and found shells, coconuts, and some beautiful flowers - which they happily modeled Hawaiian style!

At Bennett's favourite beach there's a lot of trees for climbing that go right down almost to the beach.

Bennett got buried in the sand, but not before a crab had climbed out of the same spot...

A not-so-happy clam that did his best to hop out of the bucket!

We spent our last day all together at A Bay renting the paddle boards, kayaks, hydro-bikes, and also heading out on the glass bottom boat.

Lady of leisure!

And of course for the little ones playing in the sand never gets old!

So after a great month on the Big Island of Hawaii Ted and I are now back home, it'll be a bit of an adjustment getting back into our normal routines...