Happy 10 Years To Us!

Okay, so I'm a month and a half early on that. Our real 10 year anniversary is June 19th, but we celebrated our anniversary a little early since I won't be able to travel in June. We spent a week in Oahu, Hawaii just the two of us and had a blast. It came at the perfect time before I'm super huge, and it was a very needed brake for us to just relax and enjoy some free time together. Especially since it will be at least another 18 months before we can get away again :)

We stayed in the heart of downtown Waikiki at the Sheraton Princess. It was nice and right across the street from the beach. We walked pretty much everywhere since we didn't rent a car. A totally different kind of vacation for us, but it was fun. And when we didn't walk, we rode the super crowded city bus system. It was an adventure!

One of our most memorable lunches was when we took the bus to Chinatown and walked through their supermarkets to try the craziest things we could find. I don't think there was one thing we tried that we didn't like. We tried everything from fish balls wrapped in tofu to fried rice donuts to 'to die' for tuna sushi (yes, I know, bad me!). And lots of other stuff I wouldn't even know how to describe.

24 weeks pregnant! I got so many stares on the beach with my big belly...

This was so much fun. I'm not sure what they call it, but it was basically a big surf board that you paddled around. I couldn't believe I could actually balance :)

Riding the paddle surf board. Next time Mark will take it in the surf, but he didn't have enough time to do so since he had to share it with me, ha ha.

Relaxing on the beautiful, white sand beach. But, being the whities that we are, we didn't spend too much time laying on the beach. We spent more time laying around our hotel pool. Two reasons - poolside Mai Ties for Mark, shade and comfy lounge chairs :)

We rented this dune buggy for a day and took it all over the island. It was so much fun to drive and see the rest of the island.


First stop, Hanuma Bay. Our plan was to do some snorkeling, but we ended up just relaxing on the beach. From there we drove around the perimeter of the island, stopping to get coconut shrimp from a roadside shrimp cart (popular on the North side of the island). They were amazing. We drove to North Shore with the big waves and explored the tiny town's shops. After hours in the sun and driving in the bumpy dune buggy, I was totally exhausted.

Hanuma Bay - a beautiful, sheltered bay, but let me tell you, we weren't the only ones who went there that day. There were hoards of people! (On a side note: see my burned belly?)

On a dinner sunset cruise.

On our last day we toured Pearl Harbor and a submarine that served in WWII. The pic was taken inside the sub. Mark found all that much more interesting than I did, but the site where the USS Arizona is still underwater was pretty fascinating. It is still leaking oil and they think it will for the next 100 years!