A huge Thank you.

These three amazing women will never know how much it means to me for them to watch my kids. There is nothing so valuable to be away from your kids and completely trust the people they are with. I knew my kids were loved, having fun, happy to be with people they love. I never worried about my kids and that is worth the price of the entire trip.

Four Generations of Smiths

The plane ride to Oahu

Matt took a little vitamin X to calm himself for the ride over. He was more than calm.

He also bought these smokin hot glasses to watch movies on his ipod.

The happy couple. Kids what kids.... I was so excited.. I wanted to stand up and scream in my seat.

Our AMAZING HOSTS!!!

They took us all over the island. They politely looked on while we spent hundreds on crap at the aloha stadium swap meet.

the wildlife was tame. They ate right out of our hands. And we later learned they didn't go to school.

As we deplaned we were leied by these hot mamas and taken to very luxurious accomadations with beautiful decor.

The north shore Oahu

Our ship and matt's happy place

Hilo volcano park.

We mountain biked around a volcano park in Hilo on the big island. If you look closely behind us there are steamy volcanoes. In the bottom pictures we are in a lava tube, an underground tube where lava has cooled and formed tunnels.

maui moolokini snorkel trip

This trip was amazing we took a 40 minute boat ride out to an under water crater. On the way we saw at least 30 whales. It was crazy. They were everywhere. Again I didn't take these pictures but they are from a gallery from the website who took us out there. We saw these exact sites. over and over. We snorkeled the crater for about and hour and then went to turtle cove and snorkeled with 5 very large sea turtles.

The beach in Maui!!

Captain Zodiac dolphin swin in Kona

This was SO INCREDIBLE. I have always wanted to do some sort of dolphin encounter. This was the real deal. No silly pool with one dolphin. We rode out in this boat and watched this huge pod of dolphins until they got really close and then we jumped in. My camera isn't waterproof and the boat ride out was two hands hold on tight so I stole these pictures off their site. We saw over a hundred dolphins swim just under us. Well these pictures don't really do it justice. Next time I will buy a waterproof camera.

On the way out to see the dolphins we saw a huge seven foot mana ray. The guide starts telling us to hurry and get in if we want to see it. So I frantically got on my snorkle and fins and jumped in. I was cruising over to see the mana ray and I swam right beside it for 3-4 minutes which seems like eternity in 1000 ft waters. I couldn't see anyone else so I look out of the water and everyone is still in the boat. I am out in the water with a huge ray ALONE.

Kauai hawaii's most beautiful island

The souveiners for the kids

Kauai zipline and rope swing our last day!!