Blogs from Kapolei, Hawaii, United States, North America

It was a very nice morning for everyone to sleep in until 6am and wake up refreshed. This was the morning of the Character Breakfast at the Makimaki restaurant, where we got to meet several characters. Mickey met us on the way in to get a family picture, as he mimicked swinging a baseball bat because Nathan was wearing his baseball shirt. At the table, Pluto and Chip and Dale met us as Vivian and Rosie gave them all big hugs, while Nathan added these character's signatures onto his Map of Aulani where he was keeping the character's autographs. After breakfast, the girls and Steve did some splash pad fun and then made a new friend with a 6-year-old girl at a swimming pool by a cave, while the showed off for each other with Rosie's ... read more

Today we decided to have another lazy day, which of course was nothing to do with the beers we'd had last night..... No, we'd booked to go to Paradise Cove for a Luau and show, and as the hotel pick up was 1530, we decided to stay local and hang around the pool. As we'd not managed to visit the Polynesian Cultural centre on the North Shore, we really wanted to go to a Luau whilst we were in Hawaii, and we'd read and heard that this one was a good one, so we booked it for this evening. It was also a nice chance for us to get our glad rags on and get dolled up, (Daryl even wore trousers instead of shorts!) seeing as we'd mainly just been cutting about in casuals etc all ... read more