Around 6:45, Whitman, Keaton, Robby and I headed down to
breakfast. We were there long enough to grab something to eat and then finished
as we rode the elevator back down to our room. Everyone else was ready or
almost ready, so Robby and I headed to go and get the cars. It wasn’t too far
but was still a good walk so early in the morning.
Everyone was waiting outside when we arrived with the
cars. We headed towards the North Shore of Kauai. The drive was beautiful and
even though the drive was almost an hour, we didn’t stop until we made it to
Hanalei Bay Beach Park.
There weren’t many people out and about at 8:30 in the
morning. The kids were at first disappointed with the small waves but they
still had a good time. We did move a bit down the beach where the waves were a
bit higher. Even though the waves weren’t huge, they made a huge crashing sound
possibly due to the crescent shape of the beach.
The kids could venture pretty far out and they used their
goggles mostly so they wouldn’t get the salt water in their eyes. The first
time today that Whitman was crashed down by a wave, he came up saying, “that
water is yucky!” He isn’t quite used to the salt water yet.
Keaton worked hard on digging a hole and really wanted
for the water to fill it up. She waited and waited but as we headed back
towards Nonna and Pops we saw that her hole had been filled. Keaton’s bathing
suit bottoms would continually fill with sand-it would get stuck in the lining
so she couldn’t easily get it out. I finally had her swim out and throw me her
bottoms so I could rinse them and get the sand out. She thought this was the
funniest thing ever-skinny dipping!
Graham and Reagan spent a lot of time trying to
handstands in the water, and Anderson enjoyed digging holes to bury Whitman’s
feet in. After about an hour, it was time to head back to the boat. The cars
needed to be back by 11. When we did leave the beach, we headed on up the
mountain to explore for a few more minutes but soon had to turn around when we
reached some traffic. There is just never enough time to explore!
We do like to take advantage of every opportunity and did
take a quick detour to the Opaeka Falls. It was just another waterfall that you
could see from the side of the road. We weren’t stopped there too long and ran
back to the car to make it to turn in our cars on time.
We would have returned our rental cars on time except
that we forgot to get gas. Robby found the gas station on his phone just
seconds after he had passed the turn for it so that led us to a long stop
light. We quickly bought gas and rushed to the car rental place. I think that
we were exactly on time though Robby did get charged extra for being late
(which he had reversed since he had to wait on the lady to check his car in.)
Then we all rode the car shuttle to the boat. Let’s talk
about that ride for a minute. We have met many nice people on this trip and we
have met many people that have had too much to drink. Often, it is difficult to
tell if which one is which. Like on the rental car shuttle-was the lady just
being nice when she asked me if all of my children were real or was she
drunk?
The lines to get on the boat were long but my kids didn’t
care because they were headed to the pool. Campbell and Reagan found food at
the buffet and headed outside to eat by the pool. The rest of us got our food
by the pool at the pool party. We ate and the kids swam. I played some ping
pong with Graham and Reagan and got everyone a few bags of popcorn.
Reagan and Keaton went down to take their showers so I
ran down to help Reagan and Campbell pack their bags. Soon the boys were down
as well and they were racing to change before the magic show. They were so
excited because the pool water had been splashing and sploshing everywhere. The
boat was really rocking this afternoon (It is pretty rocky now too-so much so
that our empty hangers are whacking against the wall and my clothes line of
bathing suits is swaying so much that they will be dry by the morning time)
Whitman, Campbell, Anderson and Graham went to the magic show with me. It was
neat because the man was teaching everyone how to do the magic tricks. The boys
loved it and I am sorry to say that you will probably have to endure a few
tricks when you see my boys next.
Robby dropped by and picked up Whitman. At the end of the
show, the kids went to Nonna and Pops’ room to show them all their tricks. I
went to the boys room to pack them up-I have some suitcases that are full of
souveneirs, leis, and bags of clean clothes. Then I have some suitcases that
are shoved full of dirty laundry. I do have fabreeze and have sprayed in
generously on our dirty laundry this week but goodness, I hope the TSA workers
don’t pick my dirty laundry bags to open or they will be in a for a smelly
surprise!
Around 4:45, we were all dressed and headed up to the 6th
floor to view the Napali Coast. We were very near the end of the road today and
the cruise picked up where our road would have ended. The coastline is
beautiful with lush green jagged mountains shooting up from the crystal blue
water. My kids enjoyed watching the sights for about 2 minutes and then they
were done. I sent everyone but Campbell and Whitman up to play chess (they
ended up playing checkers.)
Campbell was talking to one of her friends from kids’
club and Whitman, well, bless is just Whitman and can’t be trusted! We then all
met up at the Liberty dining room. This was our last night and we again enjoyed
our fancy supper. Now, I will say that it takes entirely too long every single
time. The food was delicious and pretty much everyone at the table had jello or
lava cake for dessert.
I suggested to Reagan that she have lava cake for her
Hawaiian themed birthday party. She was quick to point out that lava cake isn’t
Hawaiian. This exasperated Robby to no end because we have heard the man from
his app say at least 20 times this week that volcanoes formed the Hawaiian
Islands. Bless that child!
After supper, my kids were in a hurry to run downstairs
to change their clothes to get up to the kids’ club. It was pajama night so
finding something to wear was pretty easy. I dropped them off and they were all
so excited to enter the room full of kids playing games.
Robby and I had big plans to go to another show tonight
but after watching the hurricane news for a bit, we just opted to nap until
time to pick the kids up. Seriously, we are that old! Today, when we were
watching the hurricane news we heard that there were 4 cruise ships that
couldn’t get into port. Reagan said that she wished she was on one of those
boats! Pops did learn yesterday that they bring enough food for 3 extra days
just in case. I am sure that the folks in Galveston are thankful about that.
When I picked up the kids tonight, they had been watching
a movie. We walked out to the pool area to see it. The pool water has waves so
high that it is splashing out of the pool. It was crazy to see. Reagan asked,
“why is the water doing that?” I guess she already has her sea legs and didn’t
notice this boat rocking!
We went to the buffet to get some ice cream before
bedtime. Reagan ended up getting pasta too-that girl likes to eat. Keaton was
so tired that she couldn’t eat. Graham thought he spotted land out the window
but we decided that it was just probably another boat or two. Once we had our
fill of ice cream, it was back downstairs.
The kids were mostly already wearing their pjs but some
brought me extra clothes and shoes to pack away. I wasn’t going to have our
suitcases ready tonight for them to take to the terminal for us but have packed
all but one. Whitman fell asleep about as soon as his head hit the pillow and
Keaton was asleep soon after.
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