Hawaii 2009

Got back last week from a week long trip back to Hawaii!! Ron's ship pulled in for a couple of weeks and he invited me to join him there for some much needed vacation time!! I jumped on the idea of going back to paradise for a week.

We stayed at the JW Marriott Ihilani Resort. It is one of my favorite places on the island because of the lagoons they have.

The first full day there we headed to the North Shore!! We spend the day just hanging out on the beach (picture below). Then we went to have Ron's favorite thing on the island, Shrimp Truck!! After that we headed to my favorite place on North Shore, Dole Plantation for a Dole Whip. Now, back in the day when we lived there, this place was small and you could find everything Pineapple here. They had several different flavors of Dole Whip and it was not that crowded. This time, man...This place was PACKED!! They didn't have hardly any of the things they had before, but at least we got a whip!!

North Shore Beach

Shrimp Truck!
Ron @ North Shore

That night we headed down to the pool and had a drink, LAVA FLOW, before we headed at to the beach to watch the sunset!!

Waiting for the Sunset

Enjoying my Lava Flow in a Pineapple. We got some really good sunset pictures!!

The rest of the vacation we spend just lounging around the lagoons. I took some floats so that we could just float around the lagoon all day!! It was so relaxing and nice the entire time we were there. We also got a chance to go and visit some friends of ours, Jen and Louis. It was nice to catch up with them and hang out.

Lagoon we spend most of our time at.

Our last night there!