Hawaii

Hawaii was good. Had it's ups and downs, but I've returned in one piece, with only a slightly burnt back/shoulders. No other sunburns, amazing. 
Took all day to travel there,we left my house at 9 am utah time, but we got at the hotel around 11 Hawaii time, in other words, 7 pm utah time. 
Went and did baptisms at the temple, which is whole nother story in itself that i doubt i'll ever get to on here. :) then the beach. (I'm doing this by day, this is day 2) Then my brother showed up that night. 
Day 3, ummm...dang...what did we do.....this is taking me forever to figure out what we did....wow. I know Day 3 was saturday...hrmph. HAH, just went and asked mom :) Saturday we went to Pearl Harbor. We saw the submarine, and i can't remember what it was called there (no not the Arizona, we saw another exhibit we had to pay for). But we got to go in and around the submarine. It was cool, especially since my dad was in the navy, as was my mom's dad, and my dad's grandpa. My dad was on a nuclear submarine, so it was bigger than the one we got to see. The one we saw was only made to submerged when running away from the enemy since i thad guns on top and all. The longest my dad was submereged on a submarine was 75 days, this sub was made to go no longer than 12 hours. Then we went to see the Arizona memorial, we found my dad's grandpa's brother's name on there. So no direct lineage, but it is my great-grandpa's brother. Then we went to the beach again :) Then we to the swamp meet in the Aloha stadium nearby. We spent quite somet ime there, it was fun, I love flea markets. :) Then we went to the beach and dinner, and walked around town for a bit. (we stayed in waikiki). 
Day 4 - We went to church. Man, the native men there are super friendly to the guys, didn't really talk to the women. The native women however, man, they were cold. The only women in RS that even acknowledge me were the white women, and ironically, all from Utah and have been to heber at oe point or another. All five of them, cracked me up. Then half the family went to see a big waterfall, my brother i guess was too sore to go hike, but hew as the driver of the other car, so not everyone could go, so i stayed, i'll just have to see it next time, should there be one. Then there was an hour and a half long parade near the hotel, so we watched that, and holy long parade, and VERY VERY SO VERY different. It was weird for me not to see the rodeo queen in the parade. :) Saw some majorettes, made me miss baton very very much, but i'll never give up music for anything else for as long as i can. :) Then we just chilled at the hotel
Day 5 - dang it was a monday....hmm...what did we do. OH Snorkeling, I have to say that was one of the big highlights of the trip. Coral doesn't look all that sharp, but boy is it. I barely touched it, and i managed to stab my hand, get four punctures in my foot and scrap both legs. Not bad, just didn't think i would get hurt, I thought I was extra careful. Then we went to the world famous shrimp shack. First time I ever had to peel my own shrimp. It was good, then we went to the polynesian cultural center. I wish I had had ALL day there instead, we didn't get to see everything, so if i go back to hawaii, i'm seeing that again for sure. That took up the rest of the night, we all crashed at the hotel after that. 
Day 6 - Breakfast Buffet/Omelette Bar right by the beach. Was awesome, morning swim at the beach until the afternoon. Sisters wanted to check out china town, they were sorely disappointed. :) We then did some walking around, went to watch the sunset. BEAUTIFUL, barely made it in time due to dad getting lost which was getting pretty darn funny cause of how my mad my brother gets at everything. It was funny, shouldn't hve been, but it was. We were able to take last minute pictures, that sun sets FAST. we didn't even have 5 minutes to take pictures by the time we fund a beah to take pics at. We hung out awhile there, then went to a REALLY CRAPPY SUCKY buffet dinner. Packed, and went home for Day 7. 
I'm purposely leaving out all the bad stuff that just made me really grumpy at times. :) I've complained about them enough, thati should suffice for now. Generally, great time in hawaii :) I just hate facing reality when i've been gone for a long period of time. I have tons to do, ad it makes me want to cry....bad.