Friday, January 2, 2009

Aloha from Hawaii - New Year's Eve...a.k.a. Wahini Wednesday!

Welcome to Wahini Wednesday! Yes it's New Year's Eve on Oahu, and we decided it would be a good day to head over to Pearl Harbor....


Here is Janette and the boys at Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona Memorial is out in the Harbor, just to the right of, and above Alec's left shoulder.


Here they are again actually out on the Memorial. It was a really cool experience, and sad to think of all those people who lost their lives on December 7th, 1941. It was cool for Jackson because as you recall, he was born on December 7th.

Here is a picture of the actual USS Arizona Memorial that sits on top of the sunken Arizona that still sits there in the water. It is eery to see the oil still leaking up to the top of the water after all these years, and to think that 900+ men are still entombed in that ship.

For New Year's Eve, we decided that we would go to a Luau. Here is Janette all ready to go!


And the boys were primed and wiley with our new Island Tribal Tattoos!


Hey Jack! How about a good spear throwing competition! Actually, it was Alec who stuck the spear in the target 2 times in a row while all of us other guys and gals (and there were about 30 people trying) couldn't get it to stick even once! Wait to go Al! Collect some more Shell Lei's....

I don't even know what this was called, but Janette and a group of other folks were spinning these Ball on Rope things and dancing to Hawaiian music? Personally, I think these are ancient Hawaiian tools to keep the men in line!

Now that is what I am talkin' about! I'd be smiling too!!! Nice Coconuts, eh? And you should see those hips move!

The fireworks at the hotel were awesome! I have never seen a fireworks display over Palm Trees and the ocean! It was really cool!

Happy New Year everyone from Ko Olina! We had a great day and ended the year with a BANG! We hope you all had a great New Year's Eve too!

1 comment:

@mie said...

Man ... what a great way to bring in the New Year!

We fell asleep at 10:00, but Kamdyn woke up 10 minutes to midnight. So Kam and I brought in the New Year as I burped her and heard all the fireworks going off in our neighborhood. When did we get so boring??? =)