Hawaii Trip!

She did not like the real flower Lei's that they gave us when we arrived in Hawaii

The happy couple ready for a nice vacation!

Ready to swim with Mommy and Daddy!

The Ocean was so warm! Malleya loved being in the water!

Cooling off with a nice cold drink of punch from the hotel

It was the Spam festival while we were there. They had spam with every food you can think of. We did not eat any of it due to it not sounding very good.

Waiting at the hotel for our bus to go to Pearl Harbor.... if you notice the huge molding in the background- Malleya tripped and fell right into it, barely missing her eye.

At Pearl Harbor, waiting to get on the trolley to go to the actual memorial. There was a huge submarine in the background that was used during the war.

Nick calls Malleya "Our little traveling Gnome". The memorial for the Arizona is behind her.

Looking out of the memorial...to the left is part of the Arizona.

Behind me is part of the turret base (where the large guns were held)

The names of all the soldiers that died in the Arizona. There were over 1200 men that died in that ship.

Malleya looking out at the Arizona

The Missouri Ship is behind us. Its layout is very similar to the Arizona that is below us.

Utah flag!

At the memorial, below us is part of the Arizona.

We found a soldier with the last name Sheffer. We haven't figured out what relation he is to Nick but we are pretty sure they are related in some way.

We also found an Olson. I'm not sure I am related to him because there are so many Olsons- I may even be related to the Olsen more than the other one.

There is oil still leaking from the Arizona. (The rainbow part of the water is the oil) They say that there is millions of gallons of oil in the Arizona and that it will leak for many more years.

Getting ready to go back onto the ferry.

Waiting to go tour the Missouri Ship. Behind us is the memorial for the Oklahoma. Each thing stands for a person that died on the ship.

Malleya grabbing one of the guns. Watch out!

This is exactly where they stood to sign a paper saying that Japan surrendered

Checking out below the deck. She had a lot of fun running through the narrow hallways.

We found a room with all the bunk beds. They were tiny. Malleya could barely sit up all the way. There were many rows of beds in one tiny room. I would have been so claustrophobic!

The part behind me is the section we saw sticking out of the water from the Arizona (minus the large guns)

We took this picture just for April because there were so many birds of paradise flowers (her favorite flower) in the punch bowl that we visited.

The Awesome view from the top of the punch bowl.

The memorial at the punch bowl.

At our hotel. It was very nice!

Nick found a little Koi pond behind our hotel. Malleya loved looking at the fish.

On the way to the Polynesian Cultural Center. It was an hour and a half drive so there was a lot of site seeing done on the way. In the water there is a deck going out from a house. That is the house and deck from the movie 50 first dates (one of Nicks favorite movies with Drew Barrymore)

At the Cultural Center they teach you all about the different cultures from the Islands. This lady is teaching us how to move our hips. Malleya was up there dancing like crazy and people were taking pictures of her and filming it. She was quite entertaining. There is a video down below of her dancing.

She is learning how to make music with a hollow stick. She loved banging the stick around and yelling.

We got to see a parade of all the different Islands dancing for us. Malleya also enjoyed watching this and even joined in on the dancing. You can tell she loved it from the expression on her face below (She is saying "Wow!")

Nick was called up to the front of the stage in front of a lot of people to bang a drum and yell. The guy nic-named him "Utah". He was so entertaining that the rest of the day we would hear people say "Hi Utah!" or "Hey look, its Utah!" (The video is below all the pictures). Malleya was screaming the entire time he was up there because she wanted to be up there with him (You will hear her in the video doing that as well).

This is where Elvis sat and filmed some of his movies. There is a unique palm tree behind us that grew over the little river and back towards us.

This guy was nuts! He climbed up that palm tree and slid down it face first. In the picture he is holding onto it just with his feet.

At the Luau.....it was an all you can eat. We were stuffed because they also provide lunch that is all you can eat. The food was delicious!

The pig that they cook underground for 8 hours.

We took a tour of BYU Hawaii. There are only 2700 students there.

The Hawaii Temple. Its so pretty! It was finished in 1919 and was the first temple built outside of Utah.

We asked Malleya where Jesus was and she pointed up to him. I love this picture!

Getting ready for a swim

The front of our hotel.

At a surf museum

Nick had to go to Jimmy Buffets Restaurant to get a "Cheeseburger in Paradise"

Nick also had to order the Volcano Nachos that was huge! Malleya enjoyed them and decided to give her mommy a hug while she had messy hands.

We found Malleya a cute Hawaiian dress and we took a walk on the beach. She wanted to hold my hand so that she could go into the water.

The view from the back of our hotel.

On the flight ready to go home. She slept the entire flight that was 6 hours.

I tried on this wrap on Malleya that I got at a shop in Hawaii.

Malleya holding the collection of Hawaii sand we got from the beach.