If you ever find yourself looking for a dive instructor in Kauai, do NOT use Scuba Steve. I can’t quite put my finger on why I didn’t like him, but I didn’t. I’ll spare you all the details, but suffice it to say we were way over charged, he doesn’t …

Nathan is so excited that our whole family is together again. He doesn’t quite have it all figured out yet that even though Amanda doesn’t live with us anymore she is still part of our family. He only thinks she’s part of our family when she is staying with us …

On Sunday, Amanda was supposed to go out sky diving very first thing in the a.m. When we arrived, there was another couple just getting ready to go so we watched them gear up, take off, jump out, and land. All the while the owner of the sky diving company …

Yesterday we visited Spouting Horn which is one of the items on the list of 101 things to do on Kauai. This is an area where water rushing under a lava shelf is forced into a lava tube. When the water bursts through a small opening at the surface it …

On each of our previous vacations the most requested thing to do for the next vacation is more beach time. So, the next time we schedule more beach time and they still don’t get their fill of the ocean and sand. So, this vacation we are planted in one spot …

We left on Friday morning in the middle of a good old winter snowstorm. We LOVE leaving when we’re in the middle of winter weather event. It makes the going away that much better (LOL)! One time when we left in a snow storm the door on the airplane froze …

The first 2 pages go together to make a 2 page spread in our photo album. Really the pictures say it all (LOL), but I will journal somewhere that Josh is holding a rock that he found shaped like the letter J. He thought it was really interesting to find …

I don’t know if you can read the small print on these pages so I’ll quickly summarize them. Next time I’ll think ahead and cut/paste the journaling to the blog while I’m still in the edit page of the smilebox design. Here we’re heading out on our 2008 vacation. We …

This year when we left on vacation we had to drive all the way to Denver to get decently priced airline tickets for the ones we had to purchase. We had a nice drive. The weather (roads) were great. Since we went the day before we flew out there wasn’t …

WHEW! This is definitely the last of our vacation pictures! The night before you arrive back in port, you leave all of your luggage out in the hallway. During the night the porters come through and deliver it *here* (LOL) and you have to dig through the piles of luggage …