First day in Hawaii

We had a very long journey going to Hawaii. We started our morning at 3am and headed down to Dulles Airport. We had no issues there since it was so early but then our plane got delayed till 7:30 which wasn't a big deal since we planned a fairly long layover at LAX. The plane we were supposed to ride was running too late so they switched us to a different plane which was awesome. The plane they switched us to was huge. Almost everyone had their row. Overall we had an awesome ride to LAX. As you can see in the picture below our little man did fall asleep for about 45min. Even though he was very tired from getting up at 3am he did really well.

 

 

 

Now here we are at the LAX airport! I was still excited at this point since the flight had gone so well. We had about 2 1/2 hrs at the airport so we got some lunch and charged our electronics and let Hunter run around. 

The plane from LAX to HNL was awful. It was super tiny and every seat was taken so there was absolutely no room for Hunter to move around. We were able to distract him for the first hour but then he lost it. He just screamed and screamed. There was no place to stand so we weren't able to rock him to sleep. After about an hour of him screaming Andrew took him to the restroom and finally got him to sleep after another 45 min of screaming in there. It was awful! I have never seen my baby like that. If it weren't for Andrew I don't know what I would've done. He is pretty amazing! Hunter slept for the last 2 1/2 hrs of the flight. We were all so tired and grouchy by the time we got there. But you can't stay mad long when you're in such a beautiful place!!

  

So after 18 hrs of traveling we arrived at the Honolulu airport. Jen and Rick had got us the beautiful leis. They smelled so good. Since we were so exhausted we just went the food court in the exchange and got some dinner and went back to their house and just relaxed the rest of the night.  

We skype on a daily basis with Jen and the girls and sometimes Rick. So Hunter was comfortable around them even though he'd never seen Rick in person and the only time he's seen Jen and the kids he was 9 months old and it was only for a few hours.

The next morning we went to the park to kill some time. Hunter had a blast playing with his cousins! 

It crazy how quickly Hunter is learning things these days! He's like a little mini Andrew. I love the picture above it really shows their silliness.

 

After the park we went to the mall for a little but Hunters diaper leaked all over Andrews shirt so we left. I was too excited to wait any longer so we went to the beach!! We weren't planning on going in the water so we weren't wearing our bathing suits but we just couldn't resist so we just wore our clothes in the water. Hunter LOVED it!! And the water was so warm and beautiful! It was AMAZING!!

 

 Then we left Hunter just like this to go spend his first night without us at Aunt Jenny's house.