Monday morning we all packed into the car and wound our way up to North Shore. That's where all the surfing and waves are. It's about a 45 minute drive, and we were very impressed with how well the kids enteretained themselves. About this moment they were also singing an impromptu song of "My Favorite Things." Somehow that has become a favorite of Randy's.
One of our stops was at the Dole pineapple plantation. We kept missing the train that takes us around the plantation, which we were bummed about...
But instead, we had this monster of an ice cream sundae. For breakfast, I am ashamed to admit.
We also ran off a bunch of energy playing tag in the cool rainbow trees.
Another stop was at Turtle Beach! We all got to go swimming with the turtles (despite the assigned environmentalists telling us to stop it). It was so cool!
Apparently this particular beach always has turtles because this is one of the few places that grows this green moss that the turtles enjoy eating.
As we were planning the Hawaii trip, Scott kept promising the kids that we'd stop by a coconut shack and get some fresh coconut, and our time was running out! Finally we ran across this cute little shack with an adorable man who kept feeding us coconut and mango and star fruit and I don't know what else, but he was so cool!
Coconut juice from a straw right out of the coconut!
Randy about to slurp it all up!
The kids loved it!
We finally found a beach with bigger waves, but not too big! The kids had fun running and splashing in the bigger waves. There were some other kids there at the beach with body boards, and the kids got to try that out, though apparently it was the wrong season and the waves weren't very good for it.
The kids were all tuckered out on the ride home...
But not too tired to shop! I'm ashamed to admit I'm turning Cady into a shopper. We had so much fun at the mall! It makes a difference when there is something more than a Fred Meyer to shop at!
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