Layland’s Around the World

We all met for breakfast at 9am and then Brad and Dakota went to play tennis, Lynn, Max, and Wendy swam in the ocean, Jack talked on the phone, and Sydney and Carol packed.

We checked out of the hotel and then drove to Haleiwa Joe’s Haiku Gardens.

From Haleiwa Joe’s Haiku Gardens we left for the airport. Carol and Lynn are on different flights so we said good bye and headed to wait for our flight.

We are on our plane to Seattle. From Seattle we will fly to Orlando where we will meet the grandmas and drive home.

We drove through the lush fields of Hawaii to the North Shore where we window shopped and had amazing shave ice.

Jack did a flip off the rainbow bridge!

We drove back to Waikiki beach and walked along the beach exploring the old hotels like the Moana Surfrider and the Royal Hawaiian.

We got dessert and then walked back to the hotel trying to soak in our last night in Hawaii, also the last night of our six week trip around the world.

Brad, Dakota, and Sydney got up early and climbed all the way up the Ka’au crater.

All eight of us got together for breakfast and then we went on a catamaran ride!

We woke up pretty early and went to breakfast at 7 AM and then we piled it to the Honda Odyssey we rented and went to the Honolulu flea market.

We then spent the afternoon doing various wonderful things at Waikiki Beach including going to the ocean, doing math, playing tennis and going to the pool.

We ended the day by going out to dinner at the Chart house, which was lovely.

We started the day in Sydney Australia. Brad had a call at 5 AM with a client. After his client called he did his weekly half marathon A few days early because this will be the last day we are in “winter.” The weather was in the 40’s for his run.

After getting up and going down to breakfast Brad got the chance to meet with one of the board members of one of his clients who lives in Sydney Australia.

After Brad‘s meeting when he went back to rest and Brad took the kids on a jet boat. This was an activity that Jack had wanted to do while we were in Australia. It was ridiculous and tons of fun.

We then went back to the hotel and packed up to make our journey to the airport where we would fly on a 10 hour flight to Honolulu. Prior to boarding the flight Brad and Jack worked on math until Jack fell asleep.

Because of the time change we left Sydney Australia at 7:30 PM on Friday and arrived at 9:30 AM, but also on Friday.

After landing in Honolulu we went to the hotel and checked in. We were all exhausted. The good news is that Brad‘s mom and Wendy‘s mom flew to meet us in Hawaii so it around 2:30 PM they arrived and we pretty much instant went to Duke’s for dinner

There is a 20 hour time change between Hawaii and Australia so today is a 44 hour day, which goes against the person who once said there’s only 24 hours in a day. As the sun is setting here in Hawaii we are all very tired and are heading to bed early.