Raiders of the Lost Arch

 There most be something magical about Indiana Jones, because these girls were enthralled.  You'll see by reading the comments that Annie talks a lot during a movie, she unfortunately gets that from me.  I also clap hysterically and laugh out loud a lot.

"Is that really gonna happen?" Annie

"Double Triple traitors.  They are the worst traitors I ever had." Annie

 

"It's good that that fell down, they can build stairs and it leads to another bad thing." Annie

 

  

 "EWW.  That looks bad.  It's like creepy and cool at the same time." Emily

 

 Maybe it's the snakes?

Little Nature Girls

Nesting:

Meet Emerald, the girls adopted baby bird.  She loves to be hand fed tiny worms and crickets if you can catch them.  The Ukelele is her music of choice and she fancies grass beds, and high up places. 

 As you can see she's quite distinguished, always holds her head up high, 

in anticipation of more worms. 

 She avoids the baby who at this moment was playing with a metal screw 

(promptly taken away)

 and prefers the comfort of small hands

or a home made nest crafted by her loving caretakers.

Need a bigger spoon?

 

This kid cannot get enough Kefir!

The Birds

 All over the Island of Kauai are wild Chickens. They are in the park, on the beach, hanging out at the Walmart, right outside our back door.  It was the coolest thing Annie and I had ever seen.  It made me want to let a flock of chickens loose at home.  Unfortunately there are too many predators here for them to survive.

 The roosters are stunning.

 Then there are the peacocks.  They were all over the pace when we went to the luau.

This one had a thing for Annie's dress.

Where the boys are...

The Beach!!!

 

The big boys spent the day surfing.  Annie even went out once (in complete life jacket gear).  She did not like the waves hitting her, but that didn't stop her.

Elsie LOVES sand!

And then there was the Lagoon:

Perfect for little Elsie with no waves and plenty of shallow water.

 Then Texas and Annie went and rented a board.

 We all had fun paddling around the lagoon.

 Elsie was less than interested.

Texas and Annie got pretty good at balancing.

Is this considered child labor?

The Pool

Our first day in paradise

 We were up well be fore the sun.

 Exploring in the dark.

 Our first sunrise in Hawaii!

 On the way there in the plane Annie informed me that you have to eat Pineapple for breakfast and where flowers in your hair if your going to Hawaii. 

 So for breakfast she had Pineapple and I put flowers in her hair. 

(the crazy part is these are not fake flowers)

 Elsie didn't have enough hair so she wore her lei.

 Ready for the day we went to walk around.

Annie of course found lots of nature.

P.S.  Baby jet lag is the worst thing ever.  It's 1:00 in the morning and Elsie is wide awake.  Not Good.