Our Hawaii Family Vacation

 Aloha everyone and thank you for stopping by our website. If you have found our site, you are probably thinking about an Hawaii family vacation. We (my family and I) were in your shoes less than a year ago, trying to decide what we wanted to experience on our Hawaii family vacation. As we browsed the various websites, I came to the conclusion that most of the informative websites about Hawaii were business sites. I decided that when we returned from the islands, that a new website was going to be created with experiences from our personal adventure there.

If you plan to visit Hawaii, and especially the island of Oahu, I invite you to browse this site and see all that we experienced in paradise. Videos and Hawaii pictures that my beautiful wife (an excellent and talented photographer) and I took while there will entice you and make you want to book your vacation to Hawaii as soon as possible.

View of Diamond Head from our 23rd
Floor Balcony in the Rainbow Tower
of Hilton Hawaiian Village.

A little background on our Hawaii family vacation: Karen, my wife, was asked to do a business presentation at a conference on the island of Oahu, she asked me if I wanted to tag along. Although I am 45 years old, I had never been on an airplane in my life, but I decided that although I was terrified of flying, I couldn't pass this opportunity up. At first it was going to be just the two of us heading to paradise for the time of our life. As we planned the adventure, we decided that we should take our two youngest children along with us. Jordan our middle child, was 18 and getting ready to graduate high school and would be starting college at the University of Kentucky in the fall, and Jade, our 16 year old daughter, who is now a Junior at Green County High School was also asked to join us on the trip. Of course both excitedly agreed to accompany us.

It worked out great for us, as we pretty much received a 25 percent discount on the airline tickets and the hotel room, since Karen's plane ticket was paid for and a couple of nights lodging was already paid for.

One of the first things we did was to go to Barnes and Noble and pick up a couple of books about Oahu. The books we purchased gave us a great starting point on deciding which sights we should see while visiting Hawaii. The choices were amazing; numerous beautiful Hawaiian beaches, snorkeling, pineapple plantations, Hawaiian luaus, hiking through rainforests, and the numerous Hawaii tours available was staggering.

Since I am an avid World War II history and movie fan, Pearl Harbor was the first item on my list. Karen's first agenda was making sure we hiked to a beautiful waterfall. Jordan wanted to snorkel and Jade wanted to swim with the dolphins. In our seven short days there, we accomplished all of the above and much more.

The pure beauty and splendor in the Hawaiian landscape is staggering. On one of our Hawaii tours, we would remark that this location is the most beatiful scenery we had ever witnessed, then 15 minutes later at the next stop, there would be a spot that was even more beautiful. I'm not exaggerating, we were expecting a beautiful place, but it exceeded our expectations in every way.

Our Crew at La'ie Point, near where a scene from the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall was filmed.

We invite you to share our experiences by looking around the site. It is our hope that our experience can assist you in planning your Hawaii family vacation.