The Stucki's: Hawaii Day 1 and 2... Jan 25-26, 2012

We left Singapore on Tuesday morning and flew to Oahu, through Narita, Japan. The kids did pretty well on the flight and long layover, and they slept a lot. We arrived early on Tuesday morning (hard to wrap your head around traveling all day, but not losing any time. Oahu is 18 hours behind Shanghai) and headed to our hotel in Waikiki. We spent the afternoon on the beach and the evening at Costco!!! It was very exciting for us! My friend from Louisville, Jen, has a sister that lives on the the North Shore of Oahu. She met us at Costco and loaned us a bunch of boogie boards and sand toys for the kids to play with. It was fabulous to have those for the kids!
The next day we went to Pearl Harbor. I had been there before (in 1995 with a big group of my EFY friends), but it was Aaron's first time there. It is a very sobering place to be, and difficult for the kids to understand. But we watched a very good film before a ferry took us out to the USS Arizona Memorial. It is very quiet and peaceful on the memorial, as it is the burial place for so many of the men that died there. We very much enjoyed our experience there.

at 4:00 in the afternoon.... a pretty bad case of jet lag

From Shanghai to Hawaii

Standing on Singapore, where we had just left

USS Arizona Memorial

On the ferry

The USS Arizona

A little grumpy 3 year old

Quotes to Remember

We were in Munich and just checking into our Hotel and both the girls needed to go to the bathroom. We all ran upstairs to our rooms and they both bolted into the bathroom. They began to fight over which one was going to use the toilet first. They argue for a few seconds when Katie shouts, "Mom, which one of us do you want to pee their pants?!" (May, 2009)
We were driving home from church last week and I said something like, "We are going to buy a Toyota Sequoia". Suddenly from the back we hear our 4 year old, Ashley, pipe up ... "You killed my Father...Prepare to Die!"...somehow she confused "Toyota Sequoia" with "Inigo Montoya" from the Princess Bride! (May, 2009)
Ashley and I were playing a card game when she says to me, "pause the game, I have to go to the bathroom". This is when I realized the technology gap between my childhood and hers.
I asked Ashley what country she was born in (she was born in Canada). She told me that she couldn't remember, so I tried to give her a hint. I said, "you were born in Cannnn...". To which she immediately exclaimed in triumph..."CANDYLAND!!"
Katie woke us up this morning telling us we needed to get up. Heather told her that her head hurt and she wasn't going to get up yet. Katie responds, "But you don't WALK on your head, so get up!"

Hawaii Day 1 and 2... Jan 25-26, 2012

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