Whale Watching

Friday, Feb 12, 2010

We started the fun adventure with a bus ride from Hickam Air Force Base to downtown, near Fisherman's Wharf. The boys thought it was fabulous! Sophia wasn't old enough for the boat ride so she got to have a great night at the Watsons!

I didn't get a very good picture but this is one of the guys who was putting up the sails and securing all rigging and ropes. It was all pretty fascinating.

This picture really belongs at the end, but I couldn't get it to move so it will stay here. After a while my very cold sensitive Daniel needed something warmer, so we bought a cute hoodie sweatshirt for him to wear. The smallest they had was an adult medium so it fit him nicely and kept his legs warm too.

James really liked the map on the boat. You can kind of see the map screen. It was fascinating!

James got to drive the boat. It was pretty cool!

Captain Dan!

The captain was really cool and let the boys have a turn to drive to boat. It was a lot of fun!

It started to get a little cooler so the boys bundled up in their rain jackets. Being in Hawaii we don't own long pants and sweatshirts so raincoats will have to do.

We had finally pulled away and were sailing. Our boat was pretty cool. It was a catamaran that also had sails. It was pretty cool to watch all the pulleys and levers and to see how fast the wind could take us.

This was at the beginning of the boat ride. The boys were so excited. I was in the cabin and they wanted to look in. They were outside the cabin and I was inside. We hadn't even pulled away from the dock yet, but they couldn't wait!

So.. no pictures of Whales because.... well we were on the booze cruise instead of the actual whale watching boat tour. Our family and the 80 year old grandma that we sat with were the only ones not drinking huge amounts of alcohol. The boys said that they did see one whale far off in the distance but it wasn't quite the adventure we thought we were going on. The boys had a good time and it was still an adventure so we will still call it a success!