Is that the Geico Gecko?

One of my favorite Hawaiian critters has to be the gecko. They are everywhere! Every morning, we would wake up to about 6 of them sunning themselves on the plants outside our shower room. We could shower while watching these guys hunt for bugs and scurry from limb to limb. Aaron had a ball chasing after them, trying to get a good shot. The one that he is holding was actually hiding under a garbage bag on the porch. Needless to say, he freaked me out a little when I lifted the bag up, but Aaron somehow captured him for a quick cuddle. 

 

Notice how Aaron has his phone in his ears? That's the only way to do business, talking on your phone while bonding with native Hawaiian animal life.

Al-O-ha!

We're back! Sadly, our Hawaiian vacation is over and it's back to reality, but we had a lot of great adventures we wanted to share. We went to the big island this time around, and took Papa, Grandma, Uncle Matt, and Auntie, Uncle Rizz, Abbi, and baby Kenny with us. We stayed in a beautiful, big house with it's own pool and scenic ocean bluff view. Kona is a beautiful island with a huge variety of things to do. This post will be our snorkel post, one of Aaron's favorite things to do. He was able to take Haylee, Brady, and Jaron on a kayak/snorkel adventure to one of the island's best snorkel spots and got some great underwater shots. Enjoy.

 

Like father, like son.

  

Aaron was able to get some great shots of the huge variety of fish and coral life.

  These turtles were literally this close to Aaron. It would have freaked me out, but he loved it. We went to the Hilton's pools one day to swim and they have a man made cove where about half a dozen turtles were hanging out. Aaron said swimming with these guys was the highlight of his trip. I'll settle for looking at the pics. I know, I am a wimp.