Today is Sam's birthday so she got to choose everything we did today. It was also Ashlee, Alli, and Sam's last day in Hawaii. They are flying home right now. The first thing Sam wanted to do was go to Waimea. We left around 8, hoping we would be able to park in their tiny lot, and we lucked out and found a few! As we were walking through the parking lot it looked like all the spots were getting filled up.
Jack, Kenzie, and Nati went right up to the tall cliff, but none of them jumped then. They just climbed back down.
This is where they would climb up and down.
Kenzie and Nati swam out to the littler rock to jump off it.
Kenzie loved jumping off.
Kenna, Sam, and Alli jumped off the big rock with no problem. They had done it Friday, and still had no fear.
The water they jump into is only 6-7ft deep so they had to be careful not to crash hard into the bottom.
Kenna
Alli
Jack, Coleman, Nati, and Kenzie
Sam and Kenna joined them on the smaller rock. The water over there is deeper so Sam liked to dive in and do tricks.
Nati really wanted to jump off, but was also scared. She kept almost jumping, and then backing away. She eventually did jump. She was so brave!
Jack jumping.
Kenzie jumping again. When she saw this picture she thought it looked like she was running on the water.
Kenzie trying to comfort Nati.
Sam
Coleman jumped a few times, but also just liked floating in the water watching everyone else jump.
Kenzie
Coleman jumping. On his first jump as soon as he came out of the water he threw if hands up in the air in celebration. I love his excitement for everything!
Sam again.
Coleman
Waimea is so beautiful!
The water is so calm.
Doug told he wasn't going to jump, then next thing I knew he was telling Jack "Let's both go jump!" So they did. I didn't get pictures of the jump because I was videoing it. They both did great, and Doug dabbed during his :)
I knew Kenzie kind of wanted to jump so I told her Doug and Jackson were going. She ran off after them.
Jackson about to jump.
Doug and Jackson swimming back to shore.
Kenzie just went to the edge and jumped. She didn't hesitate or anything. He face was pretty scared looking when she first came out of the water, but as she swam to shore it turned to excitement and pure joy.
Kenzie excitedly ran up to the rest of the family and told them she jumped. They saw how happy she was and said go do it again so we could see. But she froze this time when she was up there. She stayed up there for probably 10-15 minutes, but couldn't work up the courage to jump again. Alli went up to try to help her, but it didn't work. The rest of us watching her were worried she was going to slip because she kept moving around right at the edge of the rock. She was disappointed she didn't do it again, and really wanted everyone to watch the video of her jumping so they would know that she really did jump. She didn't think they believed her :) We all assured her everyone knew she really did jump and I showed them the video tonight.
Doug took some of the kids "goggling" (since they didn't have any snorkels it was just goggling).
I forgot my phone when we were at Matsumotos, but was got snow cones and Munchies and candy and it was all delicious as always. They was also pretty much no line, which was great.
Then we went to Pipeline. Most of the kids got in the water and loved playing in the big waves.
After eating Dominoes for dinner Sam opened her presents. It was great day celebrating her. She is so fun and hilarious. I'm glad she's in our family!
We had three twinners tonight.
It was a great day, with a sad ending since Sam, Alli, and Ash had to leave. We will miss them all the rest of the trip. But we also know they will have a great time at Girls' Camp:)
