Hawaii 2012 - Day 1

HAWAII 2012
For those of you who don't know, us Texas Zooks just got back from our "every 5th year" Hawaii trip extravaganca....and let me just say, it was AMAZING!!!  oh how I wish I was still there.....
This year, we had several "FIRSTS" for us.....first time to go with kids, first time to go on vacation with a mutual friend, first time to see red lava for all of us.........I could keep going.  and I will. 
I'm planning to update the blog with pictures from each day so that I can share our trip with you out there in blog reading land.

So here are the details:
"who" - Erica, Matt, Natalie (age 3.5 years), Rachel (20 months) and Lisa (BFF)
"what" - a crazy family trip with two little rug rats, a best friend and two people in love
"when" - April 27 - May 7
"where" - Big Island and Maui
"why" - because Hawaii ROCKS!! and Matt and I decided to go every 5th anniversary (this is our 3rd trip) 

Day 1 - our plane left DFW in the afternoon, stopped in LAX and landed in Kona at 8pm that night (2am to us).  We traveled for over 12 hours and we were tired. dead tired.  The girls did great and God blessed us with lots of room on the plane rides for the girls to stretch out.  Since Rachel was a lap child this was a HUGE blessing and Natalie enjoyed stretching out (.....somehow she managed to escape the camera the first day). We spent the night at King Kam Beach Hotel in Kona.  I highly recommend it.