Better Together: Aloha 18 weeks!!

Aloha 18 weeks!

Yes this week Pat and I got to go to Hawaii!!!We went to the big island and stayed in Kona. We went with Pat's mom and dad, his brother Parker, Michelle, cute little Zeke and Sadie. It was so much fun and I am so glad we had the opportunity to go. If you love scrolling through TONS of photos this blog post is for you. I just love all the pictures and wanted to remember it all, I might have gone a little crazy on the photo uploads though.

Sunset view on the flight to Hawaii. Yay for getting the window seat! lol

The first morning we were there Pat and I woke up at 6am ( Hawaii is 4 hours behind our time so we did this like every morning I actually kind of liked it) or more Pat woke me up at 6 and we walked down to the beach to watch the sunrise. We figured it would look awesome rising over the water, then we remembered the sun rose on the other side of the island ha ha. It was still fun though.

Isn't he handsome :)

Pat picked me a flower aw

I told him to smile. I think he looks super cute :)

That day we also went to a beach and everyone went snorkeling. I just had goggles and not the full face mask thing and I tried to go underwater and look at stuff with just the goggles, but I got out of breath like super fast! It was weird, I think it has something to do with being pregnant. So I didn't do much snorkeling and just enjoyed the waves and the water and the fish I could see from the surface.
Then we watched the sunset on some rocks over the ocean.

The next day we went to the North Shore and hiked down to this beautiful beach. It was gorgeous and I loved the waves, even if they didn't necessarily love me back all the time ha ha

At the top ready to hike down. It was windy, hence me fiddling with stray strands of hair lol

It looked so small from far away

I couldn't seem to take a good picture at the beach ha ha

And then we hiked back up to the top. It was a beautiful day!
When we got back we got to go to a Luau for dinner! It was delicious :)

Here's the whole gang

I got to make a lei bracelet

And sit by this cute guy the whole time :)

This may have been my favorite part of dinner

Fire dancing

And here is my favorite dance, Pat got picked and he was a good sport and I actually think he totally did the best out of everyone on the stage. I was super proud to be able to take a dancer home with me after the Luau ha ha

The next day we went to Mauna Kea and saw snow in Hawaii up at the observatory. Then we went to the Hilo side of the island and saw some gorgeous waterfalls which are my favorite! And we visited the Botanical Garden which was like a beautiful rain forest

Mauna Kea

I will count this as my official 18 week belly photo!
Oh and I don't remember which night it was but I totally had my first weird crazy pregnancy dream one night while we were in Hawaii.

There was also this neat Banyan tree where the limbs grown out and then when they get long and get to the ground they start taking root in the ground and you get these crazy branches everywhere that form one big tree!

Here are some of my favorites from the botanical garden.

Pat caught a Gecko

We found a palm tree that was Pat's size

Pat making the same face as the statue

Wow I look preggo in this picture! :)

There was a beautiful ocean vista view we sat there and watched the waves crash for like 15 minutes

Look how big the leaves about Pat's head are!

A pink pineapple!
Not really, but that is what I thought it looked like

And there were cute kitties by the last waterfall we saw! There were like 5 of them. I wanted to take one home but Pat said no

It started raining like crazy right when we got out of the van to go see Akaka Falls. We were drenched in minutes.

Good thing I had an umbrella huh?

We were soaking wet!

The next day we went to Hapuna Beach which is one of the top 5 Beaches in the U.S. and I think one of the top 10 in the world as well. It was a gorgeous beach area with lots of nice soft sand and we even saw a turtle super close while we were playing in the waves.

Then after a day at the beach we went to a restaurant where we got to sit outside on the second level and Pat at a one pound burger! Then he helped everyone else finish their food ha ha It was ridiculous and the waitress couldn't believe that he could eat that much. That's my man what can I say?

The next day we went to the Place of Refuge.

They had these awesome off roading wheelchairs but we didn't have anyone to push in them lol

We saw a turtle! It was sleeping though.

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Pat pretending to jump on the turtle

So we were going to go to a green sand beach and then we all wanted to see a black sand beach. So we took this road that was supposed to go to a black sand beach. It ended up being a super long bumpy lava rock road. (Not the most comfortable for a prego lady, I'm pretty sure baby was like, what the heck is going on????). And it lead to a beach that looked kinda green and kinda black, but it wasn't a good beach to swim at. Oh well! Then we went to this place where you could snorkel and everyone got in and swam around and then it started raining so we called it a day.

We found a car, er part of a car ha ha

The next day we went shopping and Pat and I went to Magic Sands beach. It was a pretty little beach and you could body surf on some of the waves. I couldn't really body surf though ha ha and I didn't want to try to much. But it was a nice little beach.

So my one request was a really big snocone. I was going to get the biggest one they had, but then Pat and I went into this shop and the biggest one was a Jumbo Size snocone for 20 bucks ha ha ha so I settled for a medium.

And we had to get a souvenir for baby while we were there :)