More Hawaii Pictures

More pictures (and some video) from our Hawaii trip...captioned where necessary :)

Our hotel...the Hale Koa

On the short boat ride to the Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor

Golfing at Mamala Bay Golf Course at Hickam Air Force Base

Jets landing VERY close to the golf course...awesome!

Turtle Beach on the North Shore of Oahu

No...it's not dead...I saw it open its eyes :)

Dad and Mom at the Hale Koa pool

Carter drying off from an ocean dip

Holly and Allison acting silly in the rocking chairs at the Moana Surfrider

Walking up the steps at Punchbowl Cemetery

Eating dinner just outside out hotel one night...right before it started pouring

Scanning Waikiki Beach from a pier near our hotel

Mike, Holly, and Carter in the ocean

Carter "done" with his ocean dip for the moment

Carter showing his muscles in the hotel room

and it's almost time to go home.....

We are winding down our vacation and wishing we had a few more days, but we all know it's time to get home and get back to our normal schedules......we can look forward to another trip and remember all the fun we had on this one!!! Again, these are in no particular order so here goes!

A sunset over the beach, taken from our room....


another sunset shot....


Taking pictures of the giant turtles at Turtle Beach...

Turtle Beach.....if you look close, that's a turtle right in the middle of the picture...not a rock. I know Holly has a bunch of good pics of these....


Mike and Carter at Turtle Beach....

Stan, Mike and Carter....Turtle Beach

Jeff and Carter at the Dole Plantation...yummy pineapple ice cream!


Jeff and Allison on the balcony......

Stan with his morning coffee....

Carter enjoyed shooing the birds off the balcony!

Aloha.....again....!

Random pictures in no order from the last couple of days.....

Carter playing with his cars and being silly!


by a rocket at Pearl Harbor....

Grandpa and Carter at the Punchbowl Cemetary...


at Punchbowl...

Jeff and Allison at Punchbowl....

Jeff, Allison and Carter at Punchbowl

Mike, Holly and Carter at Punchbowl....

Grandma, Grandpa and Carter...

Carter and Grandpa....

Holly and Carter.....

Grandpa and Carter.....

Carter at breakfast....playing with cars....his favorite thing!!!

Aloha!!!

Aloha from the Gross family! Our first day so we are just getting adjusted to the time change! Here are a few pics from this morning!

Jeff and Allison...on their balcony taking pictures of.....

the RAINBOW over the Hilton Hawaiian Village!

At the International Marketplace.....

Carter being silly with his new "mouse/sun visor glasses"!

Our BEAUTIFUL view.....

Just got to Hawaii with the family yesterday and we are enjoying the view from our balcony....it's BEAUTIFUL!!!! Now if we could just get the protestors at the hotel next door to BE QUIET!!!

Grandma and Carter at home in Arizona.....

Carter playing with his trucks....

Grandpa in part of Carter's "Bob the Builder" Halloween costume.....

and finally......the VIEW.....

another......lots more pictures to follow!!!!

Random Ramblings......

It might be FALL.....we don't want to say anything to jinx it, but it seems like the 100 degree weather might be OVER! We have been enjoying beautiful mornings and evenings and it has only been in the 80's the last few days.

Thought maybe it was time to put some more pictures from last week up.....hope everyone is having a great weekend!

I "borrowed" this picture from Holly.....it was on Facebook so I figured it was free for public viewing!

If only everyone could just "give peas a chance"!

When Carter says "line 'em up", this is what he means!

and this........

and this!