Mega-trip: Hawaii

View from our hotel at Waikiki.  (We didn’t want to over-book the Gaffney Resort, so we found an alternate location.)

My little beach babe.

Proving pregnant women CAN look good hanging out on the beach.

The Honolulu Zoo was also easy walking distance from our hotel, so we checked it out one morning before heading over to the Gaffney’s for the afternoon.

Snapped this at the zoo as well—a variety of heliconia, I believe.

Then on to the Gaffney’s for family fun and good times.  Logan was pretty excited to see his Aunt Rachel!

Of course, the main event was the Gaffney’s vow renewal.  Jake and Rachel shared a sibling moment before the ceremony began.

The gorgeous Gaffneys.  Congrats on 10 years, guys!  We were so pleased and honored to witness this re-commitment of your love and devotion to each other.  Can’t wait to see where the next ten years of your journey take you!

Elena was the picture-perfect flower girl!

And the ceremony was beautiful.

Logan entertained himself very nicely with Jake’s lei (made of some sort of nut).

Requisite family portrait.  (My lei isn’t broken; it’s open because I’m pregnant.  I don’t recall how the tradition goes exactly, although I’d guess that it has something to do with representing maidenhood—or, in my case, obviously not representing it.)

 
Of course, there was more time at the beach in the days following Luke and Sarah’s ceremony.

Look at those two cuties!And time for a hike as well.

The gang (Gaffneys including Memaw/Momma Jo, and Wildes including Rachel) at our Hawaiian waterfall.

Looking back over the island from the waterfall—our parting shot from HI.  Next time, moving two more flights and six more time zones on to DC!