KING FOR A MINUTE

Our family went to the Polynesian Cultural Center. Nate had the chance to be King and pose with McKenna and Alyssa. The PCC is a beautiful place with a lot of amazing sites. There is a lot of history to learn about the polynesian culture and its islands.

We are kama'aina (locals) now and have the ability to visit the center as often as we like. It is fun to go and hang out.

The Thunderbirds

Last Saturday we went down to Hickam Air Force Base to our first air show. Two other families from our ward joined us. They had been before and knew just were to sit for the good seats we were right on the front row, very nice since the kids were able to see everything. It was an amazing show, lots of flying upside down, near misses and super loud. Everyone had a great time and it renewed Brock's love of airplanes. He went right out to the book store and bought a book about all of the airplanes to study and learn about each of them. Besides the Thunderbirds there were alot of planes and helicopters out that you could walk through. Everyone really enjoyed it and the boys especially were in heaven and considering joining the Air Force. (Good incentive for getting good grades right.)

I am not sure how to work this blog stuff and I had to ask Brock how to do it, well he being a boy sort of told me and so I tried it. Well as you can see it didn't turn out quite right so I will have to keep working on it. Here is a little bit of what has been going on since I haven't posted in a month. The end of August we had Annette and Curtis and their family come and visit. They planned a quick family vacation over to visit us before Chance left on his mission on Sept. 9th. It was so fun I had a hard time seeing them go, and so did Alyssa she wanted to go home with them. We had a good time showing them around to the few places that we had learned about in our 3 weeks on the island. Of course we went to the swap meet, it was really big and there was a lot of good things to buy. We took them snorkeling at Hanauma Bay, it was alot of fun Chance and Austin and Joelle swam with a turtle, and the bay is so beautiful. We went to the PCC and the Luau and the show after was really amazing. We also went to Pearl Harbor, and the the beach serveral differnent times, Kailua, Waiminalo, and Waikiki. On the night that they were flying out we drove up to the Northshore and saw some tutles up on the beach and had a famous shaved ice. They weren't here very long but we had a great time.

Eating a Yummy shaved ice

Turtles on the beach at the Northshore.

The famous shrimp truck on the Northshore.

Chance feeding the birds.

The Luau at the PCC

Learning the Hula at the PCC

Wild peacocks here in the back yard.

These are the mountains with the waterfalls.

Annette's family at the beach

The Girls having so much fun at the beach that they decided to take a nap.