the big surprise: day one.

zach's first reaction when i woke him up tuesday morning: scowl. then i told him i thought we should go to fred's for cinco de mayo and to la provence for mother's day: confusion. he slowly figured it out: joy.

we headed to the airport about 20 minutes later...

when we arrived on maui, we grabbed our car (an impala! ha!), and headed to the beach. zach reminded me of a happy schoolboy as he frolicked in the waves. kaimana would have eagerly joined him, but we kept him in the shallows. he laughed every time the water crashed into his shins. after playing for a while, we hit the grocery store and went to check into our ohana. we unpacked, and headed to the beach again!!! this time we just took a walk down the beach while kaimana discovered every piece of coral, urchin, crab hole, rock, stick, that he could. after a dinner of tacos, showers were in order, quickly followed by trying to get the over-tired kaimana to sleep in the twin-sized rollaway bed. he finally passed out around 7:30 hawaii-time, and zach and i got to watch some x-files before turning in ourselves.

what a day!