Oahu

Ely and I are running in the Warrior Dash on Saturday (more on this in a future post) and since the race is on Oahu, we decided to make a nice trip out of it and spend almost a week on Oahu visiting our good friends the Goyers! We haven't been together with Justin and Cherie since we were all stationed in Jacksonville together back in 2009. We flew here on Tuesday and won't be flying back to Kauai until Sunday so we have lots of time for shopping, eating, and visiting :-)

So far, I think Noah's favorite part of the trip has been the airport/airplane ride. Our half hour flight was delayed an hour, so Noah got to spend a lot of time watching and looking for airplanes! He was also very excited to get to ride on the airplane, and he loved having his own seat for the first time.

Watching our airplane finally land

Noah giving Lucy (Justin and Cherie's dog) a treat

Hanging out at the Goyer's house

Racing around in the backyard

Waiting for our breakfast at Boots and Kimo's

The restaurant is famous for their macadamia nut pancake syrup, and there must be some kind of secret network for Japanese tourists because they showed up in huge groups of 20-30 for breakfast at this restaurant that seats maybe 50 people!

Noah chowing down on his fruit bowl

He was literally shoving entire chunks of pineapple in his mouth

We've spent most of our first few days on Oahu eating ridiculous amounts of food that we can't get on Kauai and doing lots of shopping at stores we don't have on Kauai.  It's definitely my idea of a great vacation but I think Ely is glad the main shopping portion of our trip is over ;-)

We spent most of today at Ala Moana Center (the largest shopping mall in Hawaii and the fifteenth largest shopping mall in the US according to wikipedia).

Noah chowing down on Cheerios with Daddy while Mommy and Cherie were busy going to all the stores

Checking out all the fish. Apparently he kept yelling, "Hi fish! Hi fish!"

The view of Honolulu from the mall

Noah driving the Hot Dog truck at the Pearl NEX

 

 Sending warm wishes to all of you in Kansas and Nebraska as the snow piles up outside! We hope you all stay safe and warm and enjoy your snow days :-)