We went to Hawaii

On Easter Sunday we met my parents at Jen's house.  When we left the girls went home with them, and Brian and I headed home to pack.  I warned Brian that I was going to be a mess when we said good-bye to the girls.  I did a lot better than I thought I would but it was hard knowing that I was not going to see them for the next 9 days.
On Monday April 9th we woke up, went and picked up BJ and Neisha and went out to Breakfast.  We got to the airport and they told us that our flight had been delayed an hour.  We were supposed to leave Salt Lake at noon, but now it would be one.  At about 2:30 we got on the plane.  we headed out to the run way and they turned the plane around and took us back to the gate.  They decided that the plane needed a new part, and the closest one was in Atlanta.  Needless to say after a long day of sitting in the airport we finally got on our plane at about 8:00 pm.  We missed out on the whole day in Hawaii.  When we finally got to Hawaii we got our rental car.  We went and checked in and told them that we just wanted a compact car.  we walked out to the lot and the guy said well the lot is really full.  do you guys want something funner to drive, you are in Hawaii you know.  So long story short we got to upgrade our car to a 4-door soft top black jeep.  That was nice.  by this time it was about midnight, which in Utah time is 4 am.  I was exhausted.  and we still had to drive an hour to get to the resort.  The drive up was crazy the speed limit on the freeways in Hawaii is 55 mph, and on the other roads it is 35mph.  way to slow when all you want to do is get some sleep.  BJ and Neisha were ahead of us, and we came down a hill and there was a cop and they got pulled over.  :(  Seriously it was a long not very fun day!  All I could do was hope that this wasn't going to set how the rest of our trip would go.  We got to the hotel and got some sleep.

On Tuesday April 10th we woke up and went down to a wonderful buffet breakfast.  After Breakfast we decided to go for a walk along the beach.  It was an overcast kind of rainy day.  We decided to go for a drive and see some of what we missed on the way up to the resort in the dark.  We decided to go to Pearl Harbor.  Pearl Harbor was an amazing experience.  I learned so much.  We paid for the audio tour, so we looked like really cool tourists listening to our headphones.  It was actually really fun and I would recommend it to anyone.  What an amazing place. After Pearl Harbor we were starving so we found an awesome sushi restaurant.  It was so much fun.  We don't have anything like that here in Utah.  On the way home we drove up the East side of the Island on the Like like highway, and we stopped at a macadamia nut farm.  We also found a food truck that Neisha had seen on the TV show, "The best thing I ever ate" so we had to stop and try some of their donuts.  :)  they were good. I don't know if it was because I was still trying to adjust to Hawaii time or because we had a late night the night before but I could barely keep my eyes open that night.  It was a long fun day!