Day 2

We woke up to rain.  The day before, we had bought some breakfast items so we wouldn't have to go out for food.  We ate and then we decided to drive north to look at the beaches. The kids had their cameras and were excited to take pictures.

We found a couple of beaches to stop at and take pictures.  One of those beaches usually had a lot of turtles.  There was a woman there who asked if we were looking for turtles.  I told her we didn't know there were turtles there and she told me that she was a "turtle guardian."  They take shifts sitting at the beaches to make sure people don't get too close or disturb the turtles.  Because it was rainy and windy, she said the turtles weren't there but that there were a couple she had seen just off the shore. We didn't see them but the kids got some nice pictures.

We then drove to the Dole Plantation.  It was still rainy and there was a lot of water on the roads. But it wasn't raining too hard when we got to the Plantation. 

We ate lunch, which Courtney thought was so-so.

We then went to the Pineapple Express for a tour around the plantation.  Ethan has the longest arms so I asked him to take our selfie picture.  I didn't realize until later that he had fun with my phone. ;) 

We then had Dole Whip and it was so good but it was too big for us.  I think we all got sick off it.

We then drove to Hauula to the condo we were staying in for a few days.  Now, the woman we were renting it from warned us that there was a lot of construction going on but I didn't realize just how much construction there would be.  It was insane!  We got on the elevator and I wasn't so sure we were going to survive.  We did and we got to the condo.  It was in a building right on the beach and it was a nice place.

This is the beach that was outside the condo.  Not too shabby and it was a great place to swim. We went down to the water and saw a sea turtle, which was cool.

When we got back to the condo we found that the power was out.  We decided to take the chance to get some groceries but there weren't any stores with electricity except for a gas station.  So we bought what little food we could at the gas station.

When we got back to the condo the power was back on but it went out again a little bit later.  It finally came back on right before bed.  It was raining really hard by that time and we were exhausted.