For the past two years, we have chosen our big yearly vacation to the wonderful island of Maui, Hawaii. This year it was so much fun to go again with Zoe as she is getting so much bigger and can just do so much more. We stayed at the very beautiful Hyatt Regency on Kaanapali Beach and what a great choice as they had such a fabulous kids area. Well I guess you could say that was good and bad . . ha as you spend all your time there when your child likes it! Zoe was pool and beach obsessed and I think one day she went down the kid slide at the Hyatt (and always all by herself . .both frontwards, backwards and face first after she saw some other kids do it) 50 times. Bryan was always there to catch her like a nice dad!
One of my favorite spots to eat on Maui is at Mala in Lahaina. They are the same people who own Maui Tacos and they just have the best food. Those adorable shots in the slideshow with the flower in Zoe's hair is while were there one evening. And then of course we had to make our way back to the funky town of Paia . . write up Bryan's alley and do a photo shoot with our little girl! As you can see this time we bribed her by getting Ice Cream from Anthony's (which was just in Sunset Magazine as a place to eat and it's so cute inside there). She was very happy once that Strawberry ice cream was in her hand and would pretty much go anywhere with us .. ha. In one photo . .and another you'll see her holding up a finger and it's a game her grandpa plays with her called one more - too cute!
As you can see we also went to the gorgeous baby beach in Lahaina and got Zoe in an adorable Hula Girl outfit and let her hula at sunset. I love pretty much all of those photos, but especially love the one of me kissing her as the sun goes down. And yes we did buy her cool hula barbie and isn't she funny playing with it on the beach.
Lastly, Bryan found the famous Surfboard fence and became enamored of it very quickly . .hey how can you not - it's very cool. We were able to meet the guy who created it and got to roam around on his cool country property. And of course afterwards we had to take some pictures there as well. After that you'll see some of my favorite photos of the trip . . near Twin Falls on the Road To Hana. I LOVE that photo of Zoe in the bamboo . .of course we had to get another photo of her there. And then isn't her "Maui Built" top just very tomboy cute. The last photo may be my favorite, she is just looking entirely too big!
Enjoy!
Melody
P.S. Those lovely faces Zoe makes sometimes . .well I didn't teach her that . .it's all Bryan!
