4 out of 5 dentists don't recommend this...

Notice the bag that says brush and floss-what's inside?.....a butload of coconut mnms.... thats right thank you number 5 dentist for being amazingly cool! Ok you are cool....Dr Spackman but your staff is even cooler. They read our blog and M my fav receptionist knew that I love worship coconut mnms mnms and I only thought you could get them in Hawaii- she found that the candy store in nanton sells them- which after talking to her I realized I have been to that one!- I just went into the antique side- anyways she knew we were coming in for checkups later tonight- they always schedule ours late at night so we can go in together and its just easier that way. Anyways she got me mnms!!!!!!!! HAAA and I think its totally sweet  friggin hilarious that she the receptionist for the dentist  would get me candy....

and yes people I had 2 cavities! boo hooo :( oh well better start eating those mnms so I can go back and visit- I seriously look forward to going to the dentist- they are hilarious there-  and I get a night out lol anyways you rock Dr Spackmans office You rock M- Brandon and I love you.

Pearl Harbor

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We're kindve people who love history. Brandon always looks up things on wikipedia just for fun to learn new things about world events I remember when we were dating and he said to me if our kids ever have questions i want to go research their questions with them. I loved that about him.
 I especially loved and enjoyed all my humanities and american history/european classes in high-school and university and don't get me started on how I swoon over art history. 
 I fully admit I'm a nerdy girl. 
So museums are right up my ally. I get very excited about going and learning new things.
 Pearl harbor also has a special place in my heart as I have family who died in the war. Im excited to go to heaven one day and hear all of their stories- also an inspiration to me to blog and write about my life how i feel and think my love for things. I wish I had more of that about my family.
so anyways... onto the museum You walk into the base and you can feel the heaviness- yet the hope. I loved watching the intro movie With all the old footage that looks like film of what led up to Pearl Harbors attack. We had to wait half an hour for a boat to come take us out to the uss arizona memorial- so I went into the bookstore and read a fascinating book showing historical footage of every day things during the war it was fascinating. Did you know Einstein was German? They denounced his citizenship- we(the us) took him in.. and who helped develop the atomic bomb to end war with the axis?  I never new that.

 So we board a boat  brandon and I got separated :( so i took pics of him without him knowing he he



and we start to head over to the Uss arizona- as we approach I can see footage of the boat sticking out of the water. You could hear crying. It's probably still tender to a lot of older people and I could sense that. It was interesting to watch. We stepped off the boat and into the memorial. You could feel almost a heavy thickness. What I like to call the spirit. It amazed me that people were buried in this boat right below me. Oil still leaks from one of outlets- and you can see the oil film on top of the water. 

can you see the oil?

 submerged part of the ship

 notice the thrown leis onto the memorial- I thought that was very powerful and

 just showed what a neat place it is.

made me very grateful to have freedom reminded me of what's important to me and was just a very humbling experience that I'll never forgetIf you get the chance to go to hawaii- go see this I promise you wont leave disappointed.

Hanauma Bay!

our day trip to...Hanauma Bay

Panorama of Hanauma Bay

This is a national Park preserved by park officials so it is fullllll of coral and bright fish and they are everywhere! So beyond beautiful. I loved it. Great life experience. My favorite fish was about 3 feet long and was rainbow colored everywhere! I wanted to take it home just to look at it all day. I could  not believe how friendly the fish were- they'd come right up to you. You watch a movie before going in on how to preserve the reef and that they don't like you to touch- lol- anyways this was amazing do it if you go- and rent snorkle gear- its wayyy better than packing it. I'm glad we did that

We went snorkeling in Hanauma Bay during the last couple days of the trip. Let me first say that It is a very wise thing to put sun screen on your lower half if you are going snorkeling Ill let your minds think about that- yeah I never ever burn- but apparently if you go snorkeling all day and don't put sun screen on and your backside is out of the water you get the idea...My but was soooo burned I could hardly walk that night- we went to target to distract me from my sunburn and I had to ride on the back of the cart while brandon pushed me- pretty hilarious now- not while I was in pain- oh man Never felt a sunburn Im so serious- THEY HURT!

cool shark sandcastle- they used coral for teeth made me laugh

yep were nerds- but nerds together

is the water not gorgeous!

This was actually the inside of a volcano 2000 years ago but it flooded and washed away the other side leaving the bay and all the marine life. Its a fav site for scuba divers also.

Top 5 things we loved about Hawaii

1. TREES AND VEGETATION THEY ARE EVERYWHERE AND GREEN AND IT SMELLS GOOD ON EVERY CORNER YOU GO TOO! THE BANYON TREES WERE MY FAV. They reminded me of Swiss family robinson- I wanted to climb them soo bad!

don't make me leave the palm trees!
2. How colorful everything isI dress like my crazy 80s self here in bright colors and nobody thinks Im crazy!

I was super drawn to these surfboards they made me happy all week I loved the gradation 

and the color of them. Dosn't hurt that johnson looks studly.

I also loved this wall- 

And this one- there are murals everywhere- Its really cool to see artists point of view everywhere I turn.

3. The food! We ate at hard rock cafe chilis the cheesecake factory- had french crepes on the beach for breakfast, mexican probably every day. We also had the opportunity to attend a traditional Luau- we made friends with a couple from Ohio who had 3 little boys- It was a super cool experience I highly recommend it. If you ever go to Hawaii.  Entertainment while you eat- tiki torches everywhere- they give you fresh laes and The night show after is also fabulous. It was pretty awesome to see them take the smoked pig out of the ground eat out of pineapples. AND...The rice was so yummy tasted like coconut!

oh and my new fav place yogurt land! It was cute inside - and basically you can mix your own ice cream and toppings and you pay by weight which is cool that you can make your own portion sizes. I got tons of fresh pineapple on mine with chocolate cookie dough yummmmmmmm. We ate this by a little pier and we were the only ones there- it was so secluded and just refreshing/fun. We neeeeed this in calgary. I miss ice cream shops. Maybe because I worked in a dairy back home.
4. The beach - many hours of beach time doing.....nothing but playing in the waves

The waves in Waikiki are legendary. Powerful and fun- they broke my shoes!

We wrote notes back and forth to each other in the sand when one of us would go down to cool off- it was fun:)

5. Being together I think just being able to have fun together was the best part. Nothing to worry about. No kids that come before each other every day. It was super nice to stay out till 12- walk on the beach if we wanted too-sleep in- eat in peace-and cruise in our amazingly fun car! I loved just going on drives and walks at night and just talking -really that was probably my favorite part. More on our adventures tomorrow- right now I havn't slept in 24 hours and Im thoroughly exhausted and jet lagged from the flight home.note to self- never book a flight in a turbo propeller plane againI think brandon secretly likes that I squeeze his arm to death when we fly.

WANNA KNOW THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD?

WATER THAT TATSES GOOD!and....COCONUT MNM"SHOLY HANNAHTHEY ARE AMAZZZZINNNNG!also we think its funny that there is an abc store on every corner- spent the morning on the beach riding the waves into the shore- it was super fun- They're having a tv show premiere  called hawaii 5 0 apparently-on the beach tonight so there's white tents everwhere. I love all the fountains -the nice people. And the banyon trees are my absolute favorite- they are gorgeous!  Getting a tan has felt so nice just to have warm sunshine on my skin. I don't think it's seen sun in about 2 years. :)So funny I was just blogging last night to try and stay awake because we had jet lag and knew we needed to stay awake- but now I think about it and think it will be cool  to remember all the tiny things we loved about this trip so here to some more coconut mnms!and me actually drinking water.

DEFINITION OF PARADISE

So our trip started off amazing. I get a little nervous on small planes. I don't like taking off landing and any type of turbulence. Luckily Brandon distracted me by just talking and loading videos on his i pod for me to watch. Luckily our connecting flight had tvs in the headrests- you could also play games like bejeweled and trivial pursuit with other people on the plane. Super fun. I won a round and I give credit to my humanities teacher Miss Keim for teaching me facts about poland and russia. I really do love history it's one of my very favorite subjects. 

We start to land in oahu and I get my camera out... I had a surprise waiting for Brandon.

 I ordered anniversary leis for us to wear. So We were greeted by a traditional Hawaiian lady she was sooo nice she performed the lei ceremony where she kissed us on both cheeks said aloha and placed our leis on each of us. Brandon's smile was huge- I have to admit it was the best way to start out our trip. So fun so part of the culture. I highly recommend it. Then our Lady showed us to baggage claim told us all the really cool places to go and where to get the best deals. I remember walking outside and seeing the most gorgeous tree I have ever seen in my life. Literally like I walked into paradise. She showed us to the shuttle which then took us to the rental car place. When we went to get the rental car they asked if we wanted to upgrade our car for 10 bucks more a day and we could get a jeep or a mustang convertible.Now Anyone who knows me well- knows I have this thing with driving in cool fast cars and having really loud music on. The stuff you can sing to and not care if anyone sees you Natural high for me. This people has been my dream sine I've been 16 to drive a convertible that was red somewhere tropical. Brandon knows this is on my dream list. He took one look at me smiled and was like done...I love this man! Literally wanted to cry this day kept getting better and betterIt pays to book things online before- 

forgive the crazy hair i was super excited and schmaggy after 9 hours of traveling

can you tellbrandon was laughing at me

eyes on road johnson eyes on road!
So we drive our little convertible to our hotel. We stayed at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani. The front desk people laughed at how excited I was to be there how I loved the flower arrangements and I told them it was our anniversary and we were excited to escape the canadian cold. The cute receptionist girl went to the back for a minute came back out and said we upgraded your room. I like happy people. Happy anniversary. WOW Our room had a balcony and we could see the ocean and all the city lights and night life amazing. 
We knew we needed to stay up so our jet lag wouldn't be bad so we went to chills and ate. Thats where we had our first date when we were in Rexburg. I remember playing tic tac toe with the coasters and the flip game with the coasters so it was kindve fun to reminisce.

 Then we walked around the international marketplace- its very fun there such a cool vibe. And finally we took a walk on the beach- and as cheesy as this sounds it was right as the sun was setting. The tide was high and the waves were so peaceful. I love being here with my best friend and Im so grateful for this memory I'll forever have with him.

happy feet in the sand- is our def of paradise