ALOHA!

I am sitting on my balcony on the 15th floor in the beautiful Ko Olina, Hawaii.  Yesterday was simply divine!  We are staying on the west shore where apparently the locals come and hang out, we drove up the coast yesterday and every beach was empty.  There were rocky shores and beautiful white sand.  The sand here is really deep!  Our resort has a small inlet, private beach and their pools are AMAZING.  I didn't think I would go swimming here at our resort, because i can do that at home, but there are palm trees growing in and around the pool, the pools have waterfalls and coves. I have never been snorkeling before but boy was it amazing.  We went to a place just up from our resort and saw TONS of fish.  We saw some dolphins in the distance jumping and doing all sorts of cool tricks but Aaron didn't really want to swim that far because he didn't know the water conditions.  There were two ladies, locals, that swam over there so I think I will try to talk Aaron into going there Friday morning before we check out so I can swim with the dolphins.  We DID see a few sea turtles.  They were amazing.  We were just swimming along and then I saw one below us. Today we are going to go kayaking so hopefully we will be able to see more animal life.  Last night we saw the most amazing sunset.  Just stunning, like a ball of fire hanging in the sky.  Currently I am watching the sun rise, but there are too many clouds in the sky, the sun it trying to peak out through the clouds.  I will share many pictures when we get home.  Thanks to my wonderful sister who made this trip kid less :)  I love kids and they would love being here, but it is really nice just being with Aaron.  I realized that I hadn't flown in a plane without kids since I have had kids.