I heard a song on our trip that really captures our feelings about our latest trip. The song is "Beach in Hawaii" by Ziggy Marley. It's a really simple song and the tag line goes "I wish you were here with me/On a beach in Hawaii". That's the perfect summary of our trip. Even with the higher than normal winds, the beach in Hawaii was exactly what we needed. We decided to leave Austin home for this trip which was really hard to do because he would have had so much fun but we wanted to spend some time with the big kids since so much of last year or so has been geared toward Austin. Although we missed him dearly, it definitely made the trip more relaxing. It was also great spending time with our very good friends the Plaster's and the Nielsen's. Most of the time was spent at the beach where we snorkeled and played in the waves. Niclas tried snorkling and saw fish, a squid and a sea turtle. I even saw a white tip reef shark when I was out snorkling. They are supposed to be the puppy dog of sharks but it will still get your heart pumping a bit. We enjoyed our trip so much, we "decided" to stay a bit longer than expected. We missed our flight coming home so we had to take a day trip to Kauai to catch the red eye out on Tue night. It made for a tiring day at work the next day but Kauai was a very nice island and we had a good time exploring. Even saw an endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal laying on the beach. Maybe our next trip back we will go to Kauai. Now sing it with me - "I wish you were here with me/On a beach in Hawaii".
