What's A Scherbel?: No Excuses, just updates

5.25.2010

No Excuses, just updates

We have been away. Roland came home about the 12th of April and said he wanted to go on vacation. He had two weekends free from school and really wanted to go somewhere. 'Would it be crazy to go to Maui next week?' (crazy because we had a trip planned to Maui on May 11th) My response was if you figure out what to do with the kids I am in. Roland's parents were happy to watch them and bonus their condo in Maui was empty so we had a place to stay as well. So Roland and I watched our babies drive away and got on a plane to Maui. We went to the beach at 10 am and came home at 4 pm just about everyday. Probably the most relaxing vacation ever.

So we came home and drove to Wyoming, picked up the girls (who were so happy, and had so much fun. Thank you Paul and Geri) and headed home just in time to empty the bags, do laundry and pack up again. I took the girls back to Maui and this is what they woke up to their first day

CHarlotte took to the water, she loved the "rock pool" (rest of us called it the "kitty litter pool" because the rocks felt like walking on kitty litter) The resort we stayed has multiple pools and water slides, and wading pools so Isabel almost got in. Funny, I went into this trip thinking I was going to be saving Bells from the water every few minutes, but instead I had to beg her to touch it. Charlotte was the opposite. She got in the ocean and floated around in all the pools and even went down the water slide once.

Got in the ocean with Dad, Bells just screamed and wouldn't go near the ocean. She didn't even wear a swimsuit to the beach.

Charlotte even tried to catch fish in the tide pools. (who is this girl?, water animals?)

And taxi crabs

Done for now more later.
ALOHA

2 comments:

Unknown said...: Funny. I was just thinking last night that it has been a while since I've heard from you and I was thinking about sending you an email today! :) I'm so jealous of your vacations! Sounds so fun! We are actually going to be going to San Diego with my whole family in June! We are so excited! Anyway, I'm glad to hear things are good. Your girls are adorable! We call our Ellie, Ells Bells, fun that we have similar nick names for our kids!; May 26, 2010 at 8:07 AM
Unknown said...: BTW, can you tell I like the exclamation point?! Ha.; May 26, 2010 at 8:08 AM

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