ka huaka'i

/the journey/

We left for our highly anticipated trip to Hawai'i on Christmas night, just 2 days after Emmy got an ear infection, one day after Ali threw up, and 2 hours after Emmy nearly broke her arm (ended up spraining it--phew!)  After a quick stop at Urgent Care to check Emmy's arm, we were off!  We stayed in the hotel near the airport with Grandpa and Grandma, Aunt Jenny, Uncle Gary and the kids, and Lon.  Let the vacation begin!!

 Most of the gang at the Seattle Airport on the morning of the 26th.

To Honolulu, please.

How did Drew do?  With a little bit of this:

 some of this:

and very little of this,

he did pretty well!  And soon (5.5 hours later) we saw this:

 Beautiful.

Ahhhh, feel that Hawaiian sunshine in the Honolulu airport.

All 17 of us got on a bus and headed to the hotel.

Aloha!

We soon met up with the other 17 family members from Colorado and went to dinner and the hula show at the hotel.  So fun!

 It was all pretty exciting.  Especially when the kids went up to hula dance, these 3 dads tried to capture the moment.

Yes, there would be many moments to capture

 in a place like this.

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