HAWAII Part 2

Honestly thinking back on this trip it already seems like a Dream! Its crazy thinking two weeks ago we were in 82 degree weather laying on a sandy beach. So I left off on Sunday. Sunday we were able to meet up with our Bishop and his wife and go to church together at the Hawaii Tabernacle. What an incredibly beautiful place. It was fast and testimony meeting and it's so interesting but nice to see how different cultures do things differently yet the gospel is the same wherever you go and we felt so welcomed there. It was a wonderful Sunday morning. I was a little frustrated at this point in the trip though because our CAMERA BROKE! How does that happen on a trip like this. I was worried the last three days we were there that I wasn't going to be able to get all the pictures we had taken all week off the camera so Toby, being the amazing husband that he was planned the day to go back to all of the main places we had been to "recapture" a lot of the pictures we had taken. It didn't take long because, let's face it, most of the places we went were the beach but he was sweetheart for driving around for me. (obviously you're seeing pictures with this post so they were recovered...yeah!!!) One other not so great thing that happenned while we were there was Toby got a phone call that his good friend Shawn Jones passed away. He really had a hard time with it and struggled with the news. We almost decided to come home early but because of certain circumstances we stayed. On a lighter note Toby pulled his magic like 4 different times on the trip hooking us up with an EXTREMELY UPGRADED room for FREE! ( long story but our first room the first night was so small and Tob just did his thing and next thing you know we're in a suit the next 5 nights for free..crazy), he managed to hook me up with 3 FREE pearls from the "pick a pearl" kiosk so I got my beautiful pearl necklace, and at the airport he got us the gold pass and exit row seats with no one sitting next to us. We had SO MUCH leg room! He is just a likeable person and people really respond to him. I LOVE watching it happen:) As fun and relaxing and rejuvenating and magical as the trip was it is always just as good if not better to get home and find everything well and taken care of. Seeing my kids made my heart want to burst. We just had a big love fest all night and just kept telling each other how much we missed each other. Those two are simply wonderful. I won't lie though...it won't be another 8 years before we go another trip like that!