Last week we spent 6 days in Hawaii on a fun filled vacation on the big island. We stayed in the Kings Land Vacation Club which is co-located with the Hilton Waikoloa and which is a really great family friendly resort. There is almost too much to blog about from the trip as we alternated days out on the island seeing local attractions like Volcanoes National Park to rain forest to black sand beaches. We could have spent our entire time on the resort and never partaken of all of the activities they had.
For example the pool area alone at Kings Land had a 3 level pool, faux beach, volleyball net, basketball hoop, 2 hot tubs and 4 water slides. There was also a game room, fitness room and daily activities for the kids. They also had a pool side bar which had a nice happy hour and made great Mai Tai's . There was also a massive pool and salt water lagoon over at the Hotel site which offered different and new kinds of fun.
You can see pictures from the trip by clicking here.
One of the days we went to a local beach called Hapuna State Beach which we were told (correctly) was extremely family friendly. Turns out it was really great and there was just the right combination of waves so that everyone had fun. Nicolas was a maniac in the waves so much so that I think it was a bit unnerving for Melissa. Check out this video of him playing in the surf.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
wakeup time
I'm not exactly sure when it happened but all of our children have acquired clock radio alarm clocks. There seems to be some appeal to having the clock alarm set to help them wake up in the morning.
On the surface this seems like a really good thing. Instead of having to go in and wake your kids up every morning and rushing them to get ready for school, they will be awoken by their alarm with plenty of time and there will be no rush. That, is the story anyway.
In our house what seems to be the pattern is that they set the alarm and drift happily of to sleep. The alarms are set sufficiently early that Melissa and I are still typically in bed unless I am out running (through that in for you DC). The problem is that when the alarms go off, instead of waking up the children, they seem to shove them into some kind of coma like sleep.
Litterally there is music of all kinds BLARING through the second floor and they will be out like a light!!! I don't know what is happening but it is a crazy symphony of noise coming from the rooms and the kids are snoozing away!
We are going to have to make a change to electric shocks I guess because these kids are deeeep in REM sleep, but we aren't!!
On the surface this seems like a really good thing. Instead of having to go in and wake your kids up every morning and rushing them to get ready for school, they will be awoken by their alarm with plenty of time and there will be no rush. That, is the story anyway.
In our house what seems to be the pattern is that they set the alarm and drift happily of to sleep. The alarms are set sufficiently early that Melissa and I are still typically in bed unless I am out running (through that in for you DC). The problem is that when the alarms go off, instead of waking up the children, they seem to shove them into some kind of coma like sleep.
Litterally there is music of all kinds BLARING through the second floor and they will be out like a light!!! I don't know what is happening but it is a crazy symphony of noise coming from the rooms and the kids are snoozing away!
We are going to have to make a change to electric shocks I guess because these kids are deeeep in REM sleep, but we aren't!!
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