Aloha: Day One

Aloha! We are finally here! Our hotel is the Marriott Ko Olina, and it has a couple buildings. We found out that the building we are staying in has only been open 2 weeks! The views are just incredible from the balcony. We are on the 8th floor (which is just about as high as I will go).

Looking over the pools, lagoons, and Pacific.

We hit the beach the first day and just relaxed.  We tried our hand at snorkeling.  There were some pretty cool fish.  The trumpet fish was the coolest.  Then we went to the Paradise Cove Luau. This is just down the street from our hotel so we thought we would walk. This was a great idea for going TO the luau, not so much a great idea coming back FROM the luau. It seems a lot longer when you have had a couple mai tai's and lava flows in you.

At the luau they have a pig roast, games, and they teach you how to do the hula.  Tg was very upse that they did not serve the state fish at the luau: Humuhumunukunukuapa'a. Day two: off to the North Shore to see Sunset Beach and the Banzai Pipeline!  Then we are going to Lanikai Beach, voted #1 beach in the U.S.