Sunday

***Sunday morning we went to sacrament. The ward building reminded us of something we saw in our missions. Small and no air- just ceiling fans. A small and intimate ward. Funny though, after sacrament how quickly it cleared out - the back half must have been visitors. We sat in the back. ***After that we listened to a thing at the Marriott to get free tickets for a show. Interesting, but a little too long. ***Then we ran around trying to plan things for the week. A dinner cruise - but was full for the night, so put that for Monday night. ***Had lunch at Pioneer Inn - pretty good. Filling. ***After lunch we decided to go for a nice Sunday drive. We went to go find the Worldmark property and see what we were missing - NOTHING!! It was ugly! We were so glad that we were not staying there. So Neal had heard that the drive north was nice so we took it. We weren't sure how far we were going to go but happened to come upon a place on the map that talks about people stacking stones but it not meaning anything. Well, we found it. Picture below. It was hilarious, like some sort of rock cemetery. These pics don't do it justice.
So we stacked our own and kept driving and kept driving. We read something on the map about a one lane road but hadn't found it so thought it didn't exist anymore. WRONG!! We found it and drove it. 8 miles. Not that long right? WRONG. 8 miles at 5-15 miles an hour is NOT cool. It took forever. And it started getting dark, even worse. I was getting freaked out, cuz I couldn't see what was over the edge - a cliff or grass and flat - don't know and don't want to go back and find out. This road was literally only wide enough to fit our car. Aaack!

So we're finally back into town and think we need dinner we were still full, but needed to eat and we were in the mood for something light. We looked for salads but ended up getting individual pizzas from Safeway. Yuck! Went to bed since we were doing the Sunrise at the crater the next morning. I was asleep by 8:30 :)

Saturday

Today we went to Front Street in Lahaina to have lunch at Moose McGillycuddys. It was good. We just had burgers. Thanks to Ralph and Chandra for the tip.
As we were looking at the shops on the little street we ran into this fair thing. people were selling photos and jewelry and stuff. N was cute and bought me a lei. While there we figured out that we were actually beneath the Banyan Tree that mom suggested to see. From one area comes like 12 trunks and spreads out all over.

Maui

We arrived in Maui last night about 7:30. (First Class is the only way to fly!) It was dark so as we drove along the coast line we knew the ocean was there but couldn't see how beautiful it was. We arrived at our resort and were very excited about how wonderful it was. You can see this view off our balcony. It has this pretty Koi pond. (Drew I figured you'd appreciate that :)

Hey Kids! Here is the kids' pool. The pirate ship has slides and fun things for you to play on. (Boys, the plane ride might be worth it to play in the fun place.)


I will bring some sand home from our beach. Isn't it beautiful. It is at the edge of the property so we can almost see it from our room!!!!

I'm still surprised at how small the sand area is to the water. I'm used to the eastern beaches from growing up.
Can you hear the waves?

Steamboat

Went to a neat falls today - Fish Creek Falls
Woke to snow - beautiful in the mountains!
Look towards the back and can see the falls- took these pics with N's cell phone. Great pics!


view the other way

When Life Gives you Lemons...

Or mom and dad do.

N was getting lemons and cucumbers mixed up so dad bought a lemon at the store to have the boys try it and taste the difference and this is the result.
We're so mean sometimes. hee hee!
(I forgot to turn the camera the right way for the first half - oops. but the 2nd half is fine)

Back to School!

It's that time again.

Yesterday was preschool orientation and today was 1st grade orientation. School starts tomorrow!

Temple Day

Today was the dedication of the Oquirrh Temple. We went to the 9 a.m. session while the in-laws watched the kids.
The kids were wondering why they didn't have to go to church so we had a mini FHE lesson on temples, and we decided we wanted to take pictures of ourselves in front of temples. So we drove to the SLC temple downtown and took pictures of us and them in front of it.
Here is a family pic and some I took. It was a great day!
Idaho Falls temple, here we come!