Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Hawaii!

We just got back from spending a week in beautiful hawaii with Jeremy's family! His dad and stepmom were so generous in treating us to a great vacation. Here are some of the highlights!

Here we are at the beach in front of Mama's Fish House. Great food and of course you can't beat the scenery!
Here's the whole group. From the left, Jeremy & Nicole, Morgan & Jeff (Jeremy's brother and his wife), Jeremy's Dad Bo and Stepmom Dottie, and then Dottie's daughter Ashley and her boyfriend Brian.


Here's the sunset from the balcony of our condo. Seriously, it doesn't get much better than this!!

We got to go whale watching. It was definitely one of my favorite parts of the trip.

This one swam right up to our boat, Jeremy got this great pic when the whale was about 15 feet from us!

A little bit of Hawaiian flair...

Us eating at another amazing restaurant. Yum!

We got up a 3:45 am (yikes!) to drive to the other side of Maui and take a sunrise bike ride.

Once the sun was up we put on our gear and headed down the mountain!

At the black sand beach the sand is made of volcanic rock that has been ground up really fine.

Of course there were amazing waterfalls!

And scenery that looks like a painting.


Here we all are again on our last day. Thanks so much Bo and Dottie!!!


6 comments:

meaghan easterhaus said...

you look so cute! that all looks so amazing i am seriously jealous!

Annie said...

Hello?? I am part of the family, where was my invite? :) Looks amazing. So jealous!

Morgan and Jeff said...

We had so much fun rooming with y'all for the week! Wish we could make it an annual vacay!!!

Hallie said...

The whales! I am most jealous! We missed them when we were there a few years ago. Oh Hawaii - how wonderful!

Jennifer H said...

Your pictures are amazing...! We didn't see the black sand beaches, but Maui looks as beautiful as Kauai! Glad you had such a great time... the only thing keeping me from going back is the flight!

Danyele Easterhaus said...

hey nicole!!!! i saw your comment at meg's and had to come and see how you guys were doing! and then i see hawaii??? seriously! it's sad to not see you guys anymore, but i hope we can still stay in contact here!!! smiles, danyele