A Visit to Aulani

We went back to Ko Olina this year for our every other year family get together.  Since we were going to be on Oahu we (just our family of 6) decided to spend the first weekend at Aulani, the Disney resort in Hawaii.  The kids kept calling it "Mickey's hotel."  Since it was summer it was super packed but for the most part they enjoyed the amazing pools, lazy river and character sightings.  I was surprised at how comfortable Poppy and Eve were with them.  They weren't scared at all.  Thank goodness Nana and Papa joined us for this part of the trip though because Poppy decided that despite all the fun stuff around her, she prefers her routine at home and decided to start her "threenager" status.  She was a bear!  Her method of defiance was either screaming or taking off all her clothes so for every family pic at Aulani she was naked.  Ugh!  It's taking me awhile to sort through the pics so I'll get to the rest of the pics another night I think.  Here's just our visit to Aulani.

We took up 2 rows and the kids kept switching who sat by the window. It had been awhile since the twins had been on a plane so that was interesting.  "What do you mean we have to sit and wear our seat belt right now???"

Esme joined us later so she missed this pic.  And Poppy hadn't stripped down to her birthday suit just yet either.  Ha ha!

Mickey shaped spam musubi!  Chan loved them!

We found Moana!  She lost Pua and asked if we saw him in the lazy river and to help him out cause he's not a good swimmer.  The characters were a lot of fun

On the way back from Moana we found daddy and Mimi in the lazy river which was pretty long.  Mimi jumped out though to see Moana too and we caught her just in time.

Voyager girls!

When we took Poppy though she was post-tantrum so she wanted nothing to do with her.  Plus she's naked under the blanket.

Character breakfast at Aulani.  Table for 8 please!

Eve was in a really good mood.  She was almost angelic on this trip which might just have been in contrast to Poppy.

Minnie Mouse was so cute and tiny!

Poppy was actually happy at breakfast.  She was in awe of all the characters I think.

This is what Chan's breakfast consisted of - a ton of fruit, taro sweetbread and bacon.  Ha ha!