After we left the swap meet, we headed back to the hotel. The kids were put down for a nap, and nap they did! Both were out for at least an hour, but due to kona coffee, Dave and I were wide awake. And not making any noise, so just staring at each other, trying to fall asleep. I was on the bed with Peyton, with her draped over me, while I told Dave NOT to disrupt Brandon by sitting on his bed. Finally, they woke up and we changed them for the wedding. We were going to stop for our second day of shave ice, but the line was too long. We didn’t want to be late, so we headed to Foodland instead for poke in the car. Unglamourous, but oh so yummy. The wedding was about an hour long, and the kids did reasonably well without any outside entertainment. Peyton enjoyed the ceremony, while we tried to stop Brandon from chanting and humming. When the wedding was over, we headed for some shopping, and we eventually made our way to the reception. Dave was worried about being there early, but apparently, he knows nothing about island time. We did get the poke though..and other appetizers that were waiting for the guests to arrive. We hung out and tried to make sure the kids didn’t knock over the wedding cake in the middle of the floor. We sat right by the slide show which was used to introduce the couple. Soon, the bride and groom took the stage for their first dance, with the groom serenading his wife! The kids lasted the whole wedding, longer than their grandparents. We stayed until the end where the bridal party came out and did a bollywood routine. We headed to our hotel to check in, with both kids passed out in the back. We got checked in, and then it was off to bed.
On Sunday morning, the kids woke up by 645 am, about an hour later than the day before. We were up and caffeinated before the pools opened up. We headed to the water slides, doing both the body slide and the inner tubes. Brandon preferred the lazy river, though he was not lazy at all. He was making friends, or enemies, whichever way you look at it. He found some entertainment in dodging tubes and swimming under people. I just hope he wasn’t too annoying. We headed to the beach, where the kids had fun in the sand. We perched some chairs right in front of them and watched by the shore. I was contemplating paddleboarding, but I didn’t want to commit for the hour. Soon, Peyton asked if we could try, so I made the move. I thought we could get one right away, but it turns out we were given a transponder to wait, like at restaurants. The buzzer didn’t go off for awhile, so I went to check. They told me 45 minutes. I was afraid I’d lose my nerve in that time, but at high noon, we were paged! We walked over to get our life vests on and were given instructions. I took Peyton out, and I was able to get the nerve to stand. And stand I did! Then, Peyton wanted to give it a shot. So I sat, and she got up. And she did great until she plunged herself off into the ocean. I grabbed on to her vest, while she kept a hand on the oar. She climbed back up with a little help, and she gave me the oar to finish up. She only wanted to get the water out of her eyes, and that took a few seconds before she asked to get up again. She got back up and did a great job. I then headed back to shore to give Brandon a shot at it. He was too wiggly, but he was able to get up, too. And he didn’t fall in! I thought he was going to make us fall in, but we did keep ourselves upright. Soon, Dave was pointing to himself to try it. He wanted a few minutes to give it a shot. Peyton switched back on to his front while he gave it a go. He was gun shy and paddled around on his knees for awhile, then when I put the camera away, he got his nerve up. And rocked back and forth until they both went for a dip in the drink! They both got back up again, and then he headed back to change with me. I went again with Peyton and we finished up our hour. She wanted me to paddle, and commented, “We go faster when you paddle!” I followed a fish around for her to see, and when I asked her to touch the buoy, she told me we shouldn’t because that was the outer barrier. She wanted to follow the rules closely. We headed back in short of our full hour, since we were given a 10 minute warning. Peyton doesn’t like being given a timer, so she preferred to call it in early before being asked to go back. Glad we had a mostly first successful go at it. We went back up to the resort for lunch and shave ice, then headed back into the slides and lazy river to round out our afternoon. Brandon broke off from us when we went on the slides and he went to the river. He found the friends from the beach. Peyton said she met a kid at the beach. I asked her how she knew his name, and she told me, “I asked him.” I asked her if the kid asked her first for her name, and she said, “No, I just asked him first, and then I told him my name.” So, they don’t introduce their friends to each other, like at birthday parties, but they will meet random people at the beach. Brandon was playing with a pair of brothers when Dave met up with him. Peyton and I were already showered when they came back. We were meeting up with Emily who was coming from in town. We had some appetizers and drinks back at the bar, then we walked Emily back to her car. We headed to the Starlight Hui, a hula/luau/cultural show. We were given mats to lie down on, and Brandon did that literally. We told him just to go back to the room. We gave him his key, and he headed back to the room. We stayed for about 45 minutes, but didn’t stay for the Disney character portion of it. Peyton didn’t want to take pictures with the characters, but she did offer to take MY picture with the characters. Uh, no. We headed back to the hotel, and Dave’s key didn’t work. We scrambled for the other two keys, and by the time we got one out, our door was opened for us. Brandon was there! I was thinking either 1) he wouldn’t be there (bad), 2) he’d have eaten all our food, or 3) he’d be asleep. His only missive was to brush his teeth. We both asked him if he had. Then, I took it a step further and asked him if he’d found the room okay. He said, “Not really. I got lost, and had to ask someone. But they weren’t that helpful, because I asked them for 273, and they just told me it was on the 2nd floor.” Then, he said he was in the different side of the hotel, but eventually found it. He was able to look out our balcony at the show, so he was looking for us. He knew the show was still going on, but he knew where we’d be. He was watching basketball on tv. I imagined him just watching cartoons. But before we even brushed up, he was sound asleep. He was super tired, but just waiting for us to come back first, I think to sleep peacefully. We all called it a night, given we had a full day in the sun.
In the morning, Dave got us up to head to the pool. We waited about 30 minutes, were the second in line for towels, and reserved some chairs. We did another 3 runs for the slides, and did a little lazy river-ing. Again, Peyton and I showered up first, then Dave went to find Brandon again, to shower them up. We then headed to another shave ice before we headed back to the airport. We were already missing hawaii and we hadn’t even left yet. We had some spam for the road, too. The flight back over was shorter, but we still arrived quite late. The kids didn’t end up going to bed until after 10 pm, and I had an early shift this morning. We all made it to where we needed to be. Dave said they woke up on their own, which was pretty amazing. Today was a long afternoon, with baseball and softball practices. Peyton’s lasted 2.5 hours, while Brandon’s was about 1.5 hours. We’re headed into tourney weekend for Peyton, her first, so we’ll be busy with that. We’re also wrapping up the school year…
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