Day 1, Shopping and a Swim!!

We spent the first evening in town at Costco picking up some boogie boards and stocking up on the necessities for the condo.  Then we ran up to a nearby supermarket for the rest.  On the way out of the condo though, poor Livi tripped on the parking lot asphalt and got some nasty road rash on both knees.  Her poor knees had a rough day!!

She was still a riot though, even as tired and as hurt as she was.  We got upgraded to a Lincoln crossover that has some fancy navigation screen in the dashboard and gives verbal directions.  Every time it gave a direction, Liv would repeat the voice...so, the navigation system would say, "turn left at Waikoloa Beach Dr." and Liv would start hollering  "turn left Daddy, turn left!!".  Then, she started watching the screen and I'm not sure why, but, she started hollering, "careful Daddy, you are going to lose yourself!", referring to the arrow on the screen moving around.  As cute as it is, it does get kind of old fast to have such an enthusiastic and dedicated back seat driver!!  On the way back from the market it had gotten really dark and Liv exclaimed, "it too dark, I can't see with my blue eyes".  She is just too funny sometimes.

By the time we had dinner and finished the shopping, it was pretty late and we opted to go to bed instead of swimming in the pool like we'd hoped.

The next morning we
were up early and took off for Anaheo'omalu Bay which is technically in walking distance of the condo (somewhere just over a mile walk).

We really just stopped to check it out on our way to Kona.  It's the site of the swim portion of the Lava Man triathlon being held here in the middle of our trip.  So, even at 8 in the morning, the beach was packed.

We headed on down the road with plans to return soon.  Our big priority was to hit a few Farmers Markets in Kona and see what kind of fresh produce we could find.  We found three of them and had fun shopping.

But, we were starved and decided to hit Bubba Gumps for lunch.  Look at Liv's poor knees...

Just for comparison...same kids, same place, last year...

We followed that with Owen's all time favorite ice cream, Volcanoe (banana, and strawberry ice creams swirled together with chocolate chunks).  Liv got the same, but, I opted for my personal favorite, Lilikoi Cheesecake and Dave had a coconut ice cream with chocolate chunks and macadamia nuts.  The ice cream is made here in Hawaii if you hadn't already guessed!

The kids were enjoying having their pictures taken and hammed it up for me!

Owen wanted his picture taken in front of this building while we were out walking around.  Not sure what it really is now, but, I know it's old.

We headed back to the condo for a nap and then had a quick swim in the pool before calling it good!