The Blue Bayou

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Kauai Anniversary Trip: Poipu

We just got back from an amazing 12-night trip to Kauai. We traveled there with the girls to celebrate our 10-year wedding anniversary. While in Kauai we stayed on 2 different sides of the island and saw several different sights. I will do a few different blog posts for the different areas we stayed. Our first place we stayed was in Poipu (east side of the island) in a 1 bedroom condo at Kiahuna Plantation. This was certainly the lesser part of our trip...more crowded, less private and not as good of a beach.

We started off our trip visiting Spouting Horn blow-hole.

Chasing chickens at Spouting Horn

One of the first things we bought the girls were hula costumes. They would put on hula shows for us ad run around the condo grounds. It was super cute to watch!

Kiahuna Plantation: view from our lanai

We had a family of baby chickens that would come and beg for food. The girls would feed them crackers and some would eat it right out of their hand!

Our beach at the condo

The pool associated with our condo was across the main street so we would have to drive there. The pool was awesome with waterfalls, water slides and there was a sandy area perfect for Maggie. It was usually not crowded and a huge highlight of our stay in Poipu.

The water slide was so much fun. Kate got really good at going down by herself. Maggie even went down with me a few times.

One excursion that we took was to our honeymoon hotel and beach. We showed the girls the pool where we would lounge at and the beach that we enjoyed. The pool and beach were much bigger than we remembered!

Maggie fell asleep on the way to the beach so Kate helped me take this picture of her passed out.

Honeymoon beach

We also took an excursion to Waimea Canyon. The scenery was gorgeous but the trip was interrupted by a bee that gave Kate her first bee sting. Poor girl got stung on her leg. Thankfully Will was able to get some ice at a food truck parked near the canyon so she was able to numb the pain and continue on her sightseeing of the canyon.

We stopped to get some shave ice on the way home from Waimea Canyon. The bottom of the shave ice had macadamia nut ice cream...yum!

One our favorite restaurants in Poipu was called Da Crack. It was literally a hole-in-the-wall with excellent (and cheap) Mexican food. We ate there a couple of times and it didn't disappoint!

Last sunset in Poipu!

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Kate's 5th Birthday in Disneyland!

We just got back from another awesome trip to Disneyland. This trip was extra special, however, since we celebrated Kate's 5th birthday and Gramma joined us.

Flick from Bug's Life

Jack from The Neverland Pirates

Jumping Jelly Fish

It's Tough Being a Bug 3D show

Beauty and the Beast stage show

"Yay!"

The girls fell fast asleep on the way back to the hotel on our first night. We stayed up late to watch the awesome fireworks show. It was worth the wait!

Day 2 started off with Kate's birthday and presents!

We gave Kate a very special doll that she named "Lucy."

We headed into Disneyland and rode Autopia in the morning.

Guess who is 5?

We met some special faires too...Fawn and Tinkerbell!

For lunch we went to our favorite place...The Blue Bayou. They brought out a special Mickey birthday treat for Kate. It was a yummy chocolate mousse dessert. Yum!

Mickey's Magical Map show

Gramma bought Kate this special water fan at the park for her birthday. It was perfect to have during this extra hot weather.

We even had birthday cupcakes in the hotel!

Day 3 started off with Jungle Cruise. Maggie LOVED seeing all the animals!

Mickey pretzels for lunch

While Kate rode some roller coasters, Maggie went to the petting zoo.

Maggie REALLY wanted to meet Minnie Mouse. She was so excited to give her lots of hugs and kisses.

Dumbo with Gramma

One gift we gave Kate was to go to Build-A-Bear in Downtown Disney. Both girls got to pick out a special friend to fill with stuffing, give an air bath and dress up.