We tried to make it feel a little bit like Christmas. We brought our stockings and we made a bunch of paper snowflakes beforehand to take with us for decoration.
We all chipped in to make a delicious Christmas dinner with a Hawaiian-style ham as the centerpiece.
On Sunday while we were there we went to church near the temple, then went to the temple visitors' center where they had a display of all different types of Christmas trees. The girls (and Billy) of course liked the Hawaiian style tree the best.
Marel and I celebrated our 10th anniversary while there, we left the kids for a night and went off by ourselves. While out we went to a Buddhist temple up by the hills, and had some delicious Hawaiian barbecue at a food truck.
One day we went to the Dole Pineapple plantation and enjoyed some pineapple foods, ice cream floats, and candies.
On New Year's Eve we went to the Polynesian Cultural Center where we learned about and did activities and crafts from the cultures of the Pacific, and Caleb made friends with a duck. We ended the day with a lu'au and a theatrical dance performance.
Here the kids are showing us their best hula poses (and haka pose, because Balo is too manly to do the hula) before we all had to go back home.
Of course we went to the beach every day while there, but we'll talk about that in the next post.
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