Christmas on The Island

We got to spend both Christmas and New Years with Tiffany's family in Hawaii. When we got married Mark's parents promised us they would pay for our next trip there so we got to go for free :) Nothing like a free trip to Hawaii.

I don't know who let him have fireworks, but since Mark can't pop back in California this was a great experience for him.

This is a roll that we laid out on the floor. It went for a couple of minutes before it got to the end.



Besides spending time with Tiffany's family, we got to do a lot of touristy things. One thing we got to do was go to Kualoa Ranch and do a bunch of fun things.

We went horseback riding.

And ATVing

And we also got to go on a movie tour where they showed us a bunch of places they filmed movies and tv shows on the ranch... such as LOST (Mark's favorite!)

This is the penguin from 50 First Dates. He kinda fell over.

This is a print from Godzilla. It used to be 10 feet deep, but the cows on the ranch would fall in and die... so they filled them a bit more.

This is supposed to look like 2 gorillas kissing :)

And this is from Season 4 of Lost where Juliet and Jack kiss after they save the Island from blowing up.

This is the fallen tree from Jurassic Park where the kids are protected from the herd of dinosaurs running away from the T-Rex

It was soooo much fun and we got to see so many different things, but our camera decided not to work for part of our time there... plus it was raining almost the whole day. We got to see the tree stump that Yoda stands on in Star Wars too! If you find yourself on Oahu and have an extra $300 I'd say go and do it!


Another thing that we did while we were there was hike Diamond Head.

This is one set of stairs on the hike up. There's Mark's rump hiking up it.

This is the view from the top.

On our way back down.

Tiffany's brother Jared took us surfing while we were there too. It was probably the worst day we could have gone because it was soooo windy! It took us forever to paddle out there and the wind kept pushing us the wrong way. We caught a few waves each, but we were dead tired by the end and were pushed so far off from where we started that we had to walk a long way to get back where we started. Mark ended up cutting his heel on another board's fin and I have a scar from kicking the reef. Besides our battle scars it was still pretty fun.

Loaded up and ready to go!

We saw a Monk seal while we were there just chillin' on the sand. I thought he was dead, but then he started wormin' his way up the beach! Crazy!!

We took a photo shoot before we got in the water.

Then it was time to get to work.

And that was Christmas.