Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Love my nieces and nephews!

12-12-12 - quite a date ....I am having such a great time hanging out with family that the blog has suffered... but I am going to try to be better.  :)  But just to show ya.. here is why I have been distracted - can you blame me?
Tommy - will turn a year on Friday, he's so smiley!

Jessie on a whale at Hapuna Beach.. she loved this whale. It was like her pet.  LOVED spending time with her and Izzy and Karen.

Jessie, Lisa, Izzy and me at "Honu World"  where unfortunately there were no honus but lots of pools for us to play in! :)  These two little girls have iron feet.

Maddie, me and Lilly - we had a fantastic time skating... I was a little tired
We always do fun stuff at Biz's - highly recommended place to visit, for sure!

SOOOO.. I will give you a sneak peak of our last few hours of Bora Bora...
This is our view as we were having lunch before we left the island
This is our sadness :)



Thursday, December 6, 2012

We are back!! :)


WHEW! Can’t believe we are back in Hawaii after being in the Society Islands of French Polynesia for 29 days.  We had an incredible time.  We were so very blessed with the people we came in contact with as well as the places that we stayed.  We had the time of our lives.  We won’t bore you with ALL the details of our day by day, but we will give you lots of pictures and some highlights and fun stories.
Here are our thoughts about our favorites about French Polynesia:

SUZ – for me, overall, my favorite part about being in French Polynesia (aside from spending time with Lisa, by BFF) was the intense beauty of our Heavenly Father’s creation.  I mean, you guys, it was incredible.  Pictures, of course will not do   it justice, the place is even better than you can imagine.  I am serious.  My favorite time was when we stayed in the overwater bungalow in Bora Bora.  I felt like a princess – AND I got to go paddle boarding, snorkeling, and kayaking as often as I wanted.  On our last night in Bora Bora, we sat on our deck over the water, listening to the waves crash out beyond the lagoon and watching a HUGE full moon rise over a motu off in the distance – pics to follow.  Lisa and I kept looking at each other saying – can you believe this is happening?  This is so amazing! ;)  Yep.  We seriously couldn’t believe it.

LISA – Wow my favorite thing about FP…that is hard because there are so many.  To travel with Suzanne was so much fun.  She knows a lot about random things and is a really bad card player so I always won J she is adventurous and really appreciates the beauty around you and can make you appreciate and get excited about looking at something as simple as a rock.  Excluding the beauty the first thing that comes to mind  our Jet skiing experience which you will read about later so I won’t bore you with the story and then the second thing is Bora Bora, I didn’t really want to go there at first because everyone goes there, but Bora Bora ended up being my  second favorite island.  We stayed in an over the water bungalow and seriously Suz and I were giddy, after the manager left from the personal tour he gave us of the bungalow and the resort and we got done acting like “oh yeah we stay at these types of places all the time” we started screaming like little girls (quietly of course because we didn’t want him to hear).  We saw the most amazing full moon rise over a motu from our deck along with having an amazing time paddle boarding, snorkeling and kayaking.  Sometimes it was hard to believe that we were “those people” you would see on tv, magazines, or postcards playing in such a beautiful place.

So, we won’t be able to get everything together today, but throughout the next few days, you will find new pics accompanied by some fun stories of our adventures in Tahiti and her islands.