Thursday, July 09, 2009

Kauai, Hawaii Trip--Day 1--June 4th 2009

So as most of you know Coleman and I were able to go to Hawaii! Yeah--it is kind of hard for us to believe too!
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Some of our best freinds from BYU now live in Kauai, Hawaii and invited us to come visit. While at BYU as a married couple we became great friends with the Edwards (now live in Hawaii) and the Varneys (live in WA state). The Varneys and us decided to go together and have a VEM reunion. Who knows exactly when it started, but we began referring to our friendship as the VEM (V-Varney E-Edwards M-Miller). So we left our kids with grandparents and off we went to Hawaii!
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We arrived Thursday afternoon with Karen & Brady meeting us at the airport with beautiful Leis! We went straight to their place to take a few pictures, grab lunch stuff, change, and head to the beach!
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Here is the Varney's (Aaron & Julie) with us in the Edwards' (Brady & Karen) backyard with our leis!*
The boys were very eager to get into the water and try their hands (or bodies) at boogie boarding!

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Here comes Coleman riding into the shore!
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Here comes Aaron!
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Here is little Zac Man! What a fun an cute kid!
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Aaron waving to us on the shore!
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One of the first of many sea turtles we would see during our trip!
After we got showered and all cleaned up from the beach we headed to Duke's for a nice relaxing and scenic dinner!
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Aaron & Julie waiting for our table!
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Coleman & Roni trying to climb the tree to get some coconuts! I was actually on the tree too--but we did not get a picture of me climbing--oh well--Coleman looks cute!
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Roni trying to believe that she is REALLY in Hawaii!
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Here is our romantic pose!
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A beautiful shot of the moon through the palm trees! Gorgeous!
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After a yummy dinner we all shared a Hula Pie! It was huge and it was amazing!
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Dig in Guys!
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We love our goodies!
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We strolled along the beach! Here is Aaron and the famous (not to me, but everyone else seemed to recognize the sign) Kauai weather sign!
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Coleman & Roni taking a rest in the fun lounge couches on the beach of the Marriott resort!
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Zac and Aaron became buds really fast!
We had a wonderful first day and it was so GREAT to be with such good friends again! It is sad people have to grow up and move away from each other. It is good to make new friends--but sad to see others go!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks amazing! I was wondering who Coleman had his arm around in that first picture!! I had no idea your hair was so different... Super cute!

Brady and Karen said...

That sign is only famous because lots of places have similar signs. Does that make sense?

We loved the excitement of the first day!

NW Varneys said...

Did we really go to Hawaii? It seems like just a dream now. A phenomenal dream. Good thing we have pictures to prove it. Thanks for the great time!

Anonymous said...

Roni,

This is Carol (your stepsis). Please call Dottie because your Dad wants you to know about what's going on with Carla. Add her to your prayer list please. This is the only way we know how to get a hold of you right now.