Hawaii -- Part 3

Still in Honolulu! We basically had two full days in Honolulu and really enjoyed them. I can see spending a few days in Honolulu every time we go to Hawaii and then departing to a slower-paced area for a week...or two. This is assuming we go back to Hawaii again some day, of course.

We enjoyed the breakfast buffet at our hotel. The waitress was nice and took a picture of all of us, which is nice because we don't really end up with many that we're all in.

After breakfast we headed across the street to the beach. We had a fantastic time playing in the water. The beach was not very crowded because it was early and Friday. It gets completely packed on Saturday and Sunday.

After swimming, we walked...a lot. We headed down the road to check out the shops and ultimately meet up with the Smith family at the Hard Rock Cafe.

Everyone needed a little snack to tide us over until lunch, so we stopped for frozen yogurt. Notice the ocean right across the street? I love it!!

We took these pictures at the International Marketplace. It's an open air market where you can probably find pretty much anything. We managed to get out of there without actually spending much.

The Hard Rock Cafe was the final destination on our walk. We met up with the Smiths there and spent a couple of hours eating and drinking.

The kids got to have milkshakes and there must have been oranges on the sides of their plates because I'm pretty sure that's what they are playing with here.

After the Hard Rock we went over to check out the Smith's hotel. It was also right on Waikiki beach and had a cool outdoor bar/pool area.

Shockingly, Andre and Derrick had already hit the ABC store (there is one every 25 feet in Hawaii) and gotten beers. They may have poured their own refills after getting their first drinks from the bar.

After a long, fun day, we headed back to our own hotel and tried to get to sleep early. We got up at the crack of dawn the next day so we could go to Pearl Harbor. You'll get to read all about our visit there when I blog again.