DISNEY AULANI RESORT IN HAWAII

NOVEMBER 3-10

 

November 3

   

Checking to make sure our carry on luggage fits...Perry playing on Grandma's phone

Getting excited!

Daddy with his youngest and oldest girls

Luca with Papa...The big girls with Grandma

Leis!

Luca and Carly were less excited about the leis

Aloha!

 

November 4

The downside of traveling to Hawaii...5 hour time difference = up at 4 AM

   

Views from our "standard view" room

   

With a Stitch statue...Luca with the ocean in the background (and some construction)

   

Half of the resort

Shake-a-Shaka pool party

With Mickey and Minnie!

The girls learning a dance with Minnie

Daddy is two-fisting it

Boogie board relay race

Goofy's here too!

Sponge bucket relay race

Splash contest

Hula hooping

Curly Hawaii hair!

 

November 5
Perry and Ella's 7th Birthday!

Presents!

Floating princesses

Books

   

Little diva with her purse

Da da da da da da da da da da, circus afro, circus afro, polka dot, polka dot, afro, afro!

Sibling circus afro time

Mmmmm, animal crackers

Mama's Snack Stop - our daily French Fry supplier

Birthday tattoos!

This is what they wanted to do for their birthday - swim with the fishes!

The water was CHILLY!

Ella was the first one to commit...Perry followed suit shortly after

Had to bribe them with money to get them to swim over to the windows

You can see Papa and Carly looking in

Snorkel, snorkel

Looking through the window

   

Carly says "Hey, I know that fish!"

Pretty fishies

Baba break

Swimming with Daddy

   

Lazy River...aka "Lazy Liver"

Daddy/Carly time

Wheeeeee!!

Perry and Ella's "Minnie Me" pedicures

   

Ahhhhhh!

Pink and purple, go figure!

Beautiful toes!

Sunset

   

Big kids...out to dinner to celebrate P&E's birthday

With Carly

Make a wish!

Fancy dessert

Perfecting the super cheese smile

On our way to the Starlit Hui show

Making some Hawaiian crafts

   

Twins

Carly and Grandma

Perry learning to hula dance

The dancers

Mickey and friends!

   

Stitch

 

November 6

Aunty's Breakfast Celebration at the Makahiki

Goofy and Minnie

   

Getting some love from Minnie

Carly's not so sure about this

Perry and Ella doing the birthday dance with Goofy and Aunty

   

The vegetable maraca parade

Goofy thinks the girls' pigtails look like his ears

Carly loves dogs, but Goofy, not so much

Another birthday celebration

How many people have had Minnie sing to them for their birthday!?

 

Pool time

Pool party games with Goofy!

Goofy has soccer skillz

Carly has Hawaii hair too

Dancin' and groovin'

Perry with her afro on and the giant cupcake we got at Mama's Snack Stop

 

November 7

   

Sexy baby!

   

   

Big jumps

   

Playing with her tea set

   

Maxin' and relaxin'

Playing in the sand

Aulani's beach

Beach baby

   

Sitting with Papa

Beach games

   

Carly walking Papa

Digging for buried treasure

We found necklaces in the treasure!

Building a sandcastle

   

Pretty impressive!

   

Ella, the hula hooping champion

   

Perry trying to get her hula on

   

Baba break with the big bro

 

Germaine's Luau

   

Matchy matchy!

With Grandma and Papa

The stage

Watching them get the pig out

Ready to eat!

Mommy and Daddy...Grandma and Papa

Hula dancers

Perry learning the hula again

Mommy learning the hula too

We love our matching outfits!

   

3 of 4 passed out

 

November 8

Mommy's turn to go snorkeling

Snorkel, snorkel

Through the window

   

Luca and his buddy Charlie

   

Tired baby and Daddy

 

November 9

Daddy LOVED the bathrobe

Papa's hat is so comfy

Snorkeling AGAIN!

Fish feeding time...Ella the snorkel lover

Making anklets

   

   

Hula lessons

   

Daddy converted Luca into a robe-lover too

Carly is not impressed

 

Random assortment of iPhone pictures from Hawaii

   

Ella and I in front of Aulani Resort on our way to the grocery store

Since we were jet-lagged and got up at 4 AM the first day, we thought drinking at 9 AM was totally acceptable

Pretty baby

Breakfast with Mickey!

Sharin' some snacks

   

Fun on the bus on the way to the luau

   

It's so hard being a beach baby

Integral part of our Disney diet

 

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