Monday Madness

Monday we were planning on going to the lagoons at Ko'Olina.  Riley had her gymnastics class that I wasn't going to skip because we paid good money for her to go.  So I told everyone we would meet them out there after class, but they decided to just wait for us to get home.  When I got home I was expecting everyone to be dressed and ready to go.  Too bad nobody was.  Harry was still napping and everyone was in the pj's.  So I cracked the whip and got everybody moving.  Once I got both girls dressed and myself ready to go I made some sandwiches for everyone so we could enjoy a full day at the lagoons.  Ko'Olina is a good 30-40 minute drive from our house.  Parking can be difficult to get there because there isn't much of it and it's a popular place.  Of course we don't get there until about 12:30 which is when everyone is getting to the beach.  Needless to say there was absolutely no parking and the fact that we had to take two cars to fit all of our stuff didn't help the situation.  It was time for Hadley and Harry to eat so we went across the street to a shopping center so we could feed the babies.  Then we decided to hit a beach on the North Shore instead of waiting behind the tons of cars waiting for a parking spot.  Traffic was rather nasty once we hit the North Shore.  It's only a two lane road so it's not like we could go anywhere.  Hadley and Harry had been in the car for two hours and were letting us know they were sick of being in the car.  Toni was having a meltdown because she couldn't take the screaming anymore.  Riley and I were just taking in the views as we crawled along in traffic.  We finally made it to a beach, Waimea Bay.  Ahhh, so beautiful, right?  Well as soon as we got all of our stuff unloaded and set up the lifeguard makes an announcement over the intercom and here is what he said: "Just a reminder that the swimming conditions today are deadly.  You are swimming at your own risk."  LOVELY!  I just started laughing.  Of course after our 2 hour escapade to get our guests to a nice beach and enjoy a beautiful we wind up somewhere with deadly swimming conditions.  I didn't care, the view was well worth it.  And it was a beach we had never been to before. 

I'm not sure if you can really tell from the picture above, but there is a line of people up on the rocks(on the left hand side of the photo) and they were jumping off into the water.  Trey and BJ wanted to do it, but chose not to with the water conditions.  Of course that didn't stop all of those people!

All of the kids still had fun in the sand and sun!