By Sunday we’d already fallen into a sweet little routine – I was up early with Isaac for coffee and a stroll, Shane and Juliette dozed for an extra hour or two, and then we rendezvoused at the beach to claim our chairs and soak up those morning not-too-hot hours of sun. I came to love my sunrise walks with the baby, when the beach paths were quiet and the ocean was calm. Traveling with a human alarm clock isn’t the worst thing in the world.
Now, onto the business of playing! Let’s get to it!
Juliette and Nico bobbed in the waves and built sand castles and lounged on the beach chairs until the ocean called them back in again.
Freckle weather! My favorite.
Ta-da!!! A sand village, where all are welcome.
Meanwhile, Isaac intently watched it all go down. He wasn’t quite ready to sit up in the sand on his own and spent all of his beach time in my or Shane’s arms. My back was a little worse for the wear by the end of the week, but when I remembered how Juliette would dart straight into the ocean as a toddler when we visited Santa Monica, I relished the ability to keep Isaac close.
Isaac’s face here…Â “Watch out for those waves, Mom!”
We found ourselves needing a sun-break by 11am and headed back to our room. But since the pools are on the way, Juliette took a quick dip. Swim life 4-ever.
We made the short drive up to Kihei for lunch at Kihei Cafe and then hopped over to Ululani’s for shave ice, which hits the spot like nothing else on a hot afternoon.
I’ll give you one guess as to how we spent our afternoon…
We found that our pools started to clear out around 4pm and so we took advantage of the mellow vibe and lingered until dinnertime.
While Isaac didn’t love the pool like his sister did, he’d tolerate bobbing around in Shane’s or my arms. We’ll make a fish out of you yet, Buddy.
I recall this evening as one of our favorites – good moods all around, no plans to speak of, plenty of just soaking in the joy of the moment.
Sunset from our room…
And the sweetest silhouette.
Jazz hands for another stellar day.
We mixed it up on Monday morning – Shane got out for some pickle ball while Juliette and Nico took a ukulele lesson at the hotel. First, though, ACAI!
While the kids worked on chords, I walked with Isaac. I must have gone up and down this beach path a dozen times in our few days there, but it never got old.
I thought maybe we would leave the resort that day, but…nah.
The waterslides stopped running at 4pm, so Juliette and I darted to the topmost slide at 3:50 and managed to hit 9 out of 10 slides in 10 minutes. We were quite proud of ourselves.
5pm beach rendezvous…
And a picnic dinner from Island Market at our favorite spot.
Something about a good sunset just makes you want to put your arms around the people you love.
I took Isaac back to the room while the rest of the gang went out for ice cream and while it was hard to bid farewell to our friends at 6:30, I can’t imagine a sweeter place to nurse a sun-kissed baby to sleep.
