Last one, I promise!

I remember my Travel and Tourism Professor at ASU telling me "Sometimes when you get home from a trip, you need a VACATION from your VACATION." I didn't really get that until now. Luckily, my mother in law sent my kids home with clean, folded laundry (spoiled, I know) and I had done all of the laundry in our condo while we were there, so I wasn't swamped. But it is HARD to get back into normal life when you get home. Especially when that normal life includes 110 degree weather and a husband who works every night until 11pm.
So there are my excuses, and I am finally posting the last segment of our amazing trip to Hawaii.

One of the funnest things we did was our "water adventure day". We spent a good six hours doing all sorts of fun things in the ocean and with boats. The highlight of my trip had to be watching Ro hold onto this tube when the driver of the boat was continually taunting him and trying his best to throw him off.


Notice the expression on Ro's face as I go flying off...


We even stayed on after the tube looked like THIS:



Then we got on this banana boat, and I made the mistake of assuming it was going to be easy to stay on. It was not. Especially after the lengthy tubing episode that made my arms feel like rubberbands.

We made it!


Here is Ro diving into the middle of the ocean when we were on an anchored boat/dock waiting for our speedboat ride.


Parasailing was the BEST! It was a very windy day and we had the ride of our lives. It was especially refreshing when we got dipped in the ocean before we got reeled in. LOVED it!







Right after our parasail came to an end. I felt SO accomplished that I had the confidence to finally wear that toupee on my head. (:



Great fun... great day... GREAT TRIP!!!!!





And on our way to the airport on our last day, Hawaii even said goodbye to us like this: