Hawaii: Day 5

Tuesday was pretty uneventful in terms of the rest of the vacation. The kids returned to school after the Columbus Day holiday, and my brother returned to work. My sister-in-law spent the morning volunteering at the kids' school. It was pretty overcast, so it wasn't necessarily a good "beach-going" day. It was our last day on Oahu, so Scot and I spent most of the morning relaxing and then packing up our bags for our early morning flight to Kauai the next day.

After Nancy returned home, the three of us went out for some Mexican food for lunch, (yummm...), and then we did some shopping around their town. It was another successful shopping excursion (or unsuccessful from the pocket book's perspective!)

Before dinner, Scot and I went for an early evening walk through another part of the neighborhood to another beach. Here are some pics from our walk to Lanikai beach. It was a cloudy day and the sun was starting to set, but you can still see what a beautiful area it was.

There were some AMAZING houses along the beach and up in the hills. Check out the big white house set in the mountains in the left side of the picture. Every house seem to be bigger and more beautiful than the last. I'm sure Scot and I probably looked silly walking around with our mouths wide open.



Another view of the Lanikai beach coastline and its high-dollar real estate.

Here is Scot at the overlook that divides Kailua beach and Lanikai beach. That is "Flat Island" in the background, which serves as a bird sanctuary.

On the way back to Rob and Nancy's, we caught some glimpses of a beautiful sunset behind the mountains. This was taken as we were walking up their street. Except for the powerlines, I think it's a pretty cool picture.

Since we don't have too many pictures or stories to share from Day 5, I thought I would include a picture of Matt (Scot's oldest son) and his girlfriend, Jenny. Their homecoming dance was the weekend we arrived in Hawaii, so we missed out on the whole "pre-dance parent picture taking" event. Nonetheless, we were able to snag some pictures of the event, so here is the cute couple.