Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Last Nights


 Favourite Spots

We spent the last few nights of our vacation saying goodbye to the island at a few of our special places.
There’s always a few changes there each year but still great spots to enjoy.

Lava Lava Beach Club





Four Seasons Hualalai Beach Tree





Fairmont Orchid 




We’ve had a wonderful stay on the Big Island, and are so thankful to be able to enjoy times like this!

Monday, February 20, 2023

Week Three

We manage to fill the days here with no problem of wondering what to do.  Some golf, some tennis, some beach trips, happy hours at home and dinners out.


Walked around the beautiful Four Seasons Hualalai golf course


Gina had the smallest Mai Tai ever

              Group shot with a special guest of Colleen and Jay’s!



                   Mauna Lani beach day


        Beautiful dinner at the Canoe House for Valentine’s Day






                   
  The sand at Mauna Kea is perfect for Paddle ball 

I finally made it into the clubhouse near our place, I’ve been dying to check it out!

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Halfway

We’re just over halfway through our time here and it feels good, not rushed.  There’s been lots of great beach and pool days, happy hours at each others places and dinners out.

Happy Hour at Tommy Bahamas 

Nino at the Fairmont Orchid

Kona Brewery pizza is the best!




Valentine’s Dinner

We splurged and went to the Canoe House at the newly renovated Mauna Lani Hotel and it was very good!





         The end of a beautiful evening…

Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Big Island, Hawaii


 Paradise

We arrived Sunday night after a turbulent flight, it was great to get on the ground in our little piece of paradise on earth.


Monday morning breakfast was hosted for us by Gina and Gary, so nice to have friends here too! Then off to Kona to do the big grocery shopping for the month.  Ted loves to stock up the snack cupboard which is great, but we won’t have the grandkids here to help eat all this stuff this year!


Yesterday we went to Hapuna Beach, the sand and ocean is so beautiful.  Perfect spot for a game of paddle ball.


Later in the afternoon Ted played doubles with some 4.0 players at the Fairmont Orchid and he had a great time, and I spent time by the pool reading and chatting with people there.  A great start to our month here…

Monday, September 12, 2022

New York - US Open 🎾

It was a quick turnaround for us going to New York after being home only a few days from Disneyland, but we made it work.

















We packed a lot into our week there; watching the tennis matches, sightseeing in the Big Apple, Central Park, zoo, One World Trade Centre for a dinner looking over the city, and much more!


Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Disneyland Family Adventures







It’s been awhile since we’ve made our way down to see Mickey and Friends so when Jen, Rick and family said they were going we decided to join them.  Barry and Alex joined the adventure too so it was a lot of fun.



Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Grandkids Staycation Here



 Jen and Rick's 22nd Anniversary!

We were happy to have Ruby, Bennett and Miles left with us for a couple of nights while Jen and Rick headed to Whistler to celebrate their 22nd anniversary.  It's kinda crazy that 'the kids' have been married that long, it really does seem hard to believe.  Seems not that long ago that Rick came to our house and asked us if we had any objection to him asking Jen to marry him.  We knew that he would be a great husband and so of course we gave him our blessing. So fast forward 23 years and now they're celebrating where it began and we were quite happy to look after the kids.

Miles loves to play Beyblades, he’s always up for a match

       Also Lego, he makes some awesome warrior robots!

           They all got in on creating shrinky dinks…
…and these two even had fun waiting for them to bake!

             Our resident vintner checking this year’s crop.

    What do you do when it’s hot?? Lemonade stand of course

Waiting for customers also creates some downtime to enjoy

Of course some faithful yearly customers showed up 😁

These are the summer memories we love and that will stay in all our hearts for years to come!  🥰