vacation

Aloha Oahu

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Where to start…I am absolutely in love with Hawaii. 
We decided to go to Hawaii because 
a. it was Spring Break
b. lyle killed it in Texas & we could
c. we were pale & wanted a third honeymoon
d. all of the above

This blog is lotsa pictures & my random Hawaii observations
Waikiki/Honolulu is the WORST. if you go to Oahu do not stay there. The North Shore was absolutely perfect and not crowded at all. We LOVED where we stayed. Honolulu and Waikiki are fun to explore but the hotels are overpriced and you will probably have to pay for parking on top.
 Lolani Palace
 my stud husband
Homeless guys in Hawaii are less scarier than homeless guys anywhere else. They wanted me to take a picture of them
Dukes Statue. Other tourists aren’t that good at taking centered pictures
 Some cool/weird tree in Kapiolani Park
And of course we went to the beach. below is Waimea Beach
Waimea Falls. This was supposed to be with a self timer but lyle didnt get to me in time…
One of the beautiful lookout points. We couldn’t live in Hawaii because my hair was just the worst thing ever. As seen in the following pictures… 
Nuanna Pali Lookout. We were sad because it was foggy! The weather in Hawaii reminds me a lot of Florida- it will rain while its sunny and it will be gross one second and fine the next so we just waited until it went away (it did!)
A tripod is THE BEST thing we have ever bought. Especially if you love to travel. Get one.
Hahaha Lyles pose…
 We wanted to live like locals so we a teeny place that was a couple feet from the beach and went to the grocery store and guys everything in Hawaii is EXPENSIVE. Cereal is like $6.00 and they don’t have a huge huge selection and all the food is way pricey. However they do have unique fruits and candies that are AMAZING. Hence we didn’t feel the need to buy razors (we only did carry ons) which equals super sexy for Lyle (see below) and not so sexy for me…. 
 Lyle was very persuasive in Hawaii. Hence my participation in these photos….Lyle obviously posed me too because I have no clue what I’m doing in the first photo.

 We were never lacking in PDA. Sorry to the other tourists, but vacation is fun for that kind of stuff. We were asked if we were on our honeymoon a couple times…sure, our third honeymoon. 

More from Waimea Falls!
 I LOVE this!
Hawaii is not lacking in chickens or cats… the cats were more in the Waikiki area while the chickens were on the North Shore. Everyone owns them
 Lyle found this an appropriate time to ask why the chicken crossed the road…
 But it was so cute because they all had BABIES!
We explored many different beaches! Lanikai, a Waikiki Beach, Bonzai pipeline, Waimea, Sunset, Hukilau, etc. Below are pictures from Lanikai one of Lyles favorites. The sand was soft and white and it was so beautiful!
Then one day we went to the Latter Day Saint Laie temple! It is STUNNING. Lyle and i have now through 5 different temples together! Our goal is to hit go through everyone of them as we travel to many different places
The views are amazing!
We also went to the Polynesian Cultural Center- PCC. They had tons of different shows about different cultures along with lots of hands on things such as lei making, throwing spears etc. We then went to the luau there and saw the HA Breath of Life Show which had guys throwing fire and it was so cool
We just bought this hut in case anyone wants to visit us!
One day we went to China Mans hat! So then obviously we took a photo shoot. IT IS THAT STUNNING- i only edited two of these pictures and that was to make them lighter, the rest are what it really looks like!
All my swimsuits are from Amazon by the way for like $15! They are great when you eat Hawaiian french toast and feel fat haha
One day we went to Valley of the temples! It is stunning! I did not touch a single photo. I felt like I was in China sometimes…also because seriously everyone was Asian
 This whole pond behind us was filled with these huge Koi fish
freaking babe.
My top 5 favorite parts of the trip: (in no order)
1. Hawaiian Sweet bread french toast from Papa Ole’s
2. the helicopter ride over Oahu
3. Our snorkeling excursion where wild dolphins swam all around us
4. laying out & getting sun
5. the amazing beauty everywhere we went
 this waterfall was amazing! our helicopter had no doors and he basically would flip the helicopter to the side so we could get different views and it was so scary! Its actually illegal to hike to this waterfall so it was cool we got to see it since its not visible
Lookin rough on my part- I lost a whole lotta hair in this event haha
Our pilot flew over this whale that was breaching! SO COOL
The snorkeling adventure was so sick besides the fact that we got up at 4:30 am…
we got on this boat and rode out and saw some bottle nose dolphins which is surprising because usually its just the spinner dolphins and he started speeding and the dolphins started swimming alongside and jumping in the waves. it was amazing. then we went snorkeling in an area where we saw 4 huge konas! (turtles) and a bunch of fish. The next snorkeling area i saw a reef shark RIGHT UNDER ME and I started swimming to the boat and freaking out. Lyle decided to get a picture of it (we haven’t gotten our underwater camera developed yet!) The guy in charge said reef sharks wont bug you but hmm funny, on yahoo yesterday i saw an article where a man was attacked by a reef shark…it wasn’t exactly tiny. The boat then got a call about a bunch of spinner dolphins spotted so he slowly dropped us in the water and told us not to move. Then all the sudden 55+ spinner dolphins started to swim under us. They all had little babies and it was phenomenal. They were completely surrounding us. They just swam around us several times. I have never had a cooler experience in my life. Then they fed us an amazing lunch! Ko Olina Ocean adventures was amazing! We had the best time!
I loved Haleiwa! It was the perfect little beach town with a cute bakery, little shops and amazing homemade icecream!
 We watched a Sunset on Sunset beach
We got to hike Manoa Falls and the Kokohead Crater Hike
please ignore the terrible shoes below…
More Pictures!
Halona Blowhole
 Get a picture of the sign! Thanks lyle…haha
 An amazing steak house where we ate with a beautiful view of the beach!
the reason I probably gained 20 lbs haha and for some reason lyle adores this picture…
RIP white wedge shoe. 
We had an amazing time to say the least. We ate lots of amazing food. Hawaii seems to be big on breakfast food and so am I. If we lived there I would be so obese. We ate from the food trucks and had shaved ice and at night we would fall asleep to movies that take place in Hawaii such as 50 first dates or Just Go With It.  We crossed things off bucket lists. We stopped at local little fruit stands and had the best time. We have already decided we have to go back next spring break for a couple days to finish up the rest of the things we wanna do then explore the big island!! The amount of photos i took is ridiculous, i have zillions more but these are some of the favorites! aloha
xoxo Cait xoxo

CANCUN, MEXICO

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I love Cancun. I’ll just start by saying that….I think I may even love Cancun more than the Dominican Republic. Why? Lots of reasons…its beautiful, theres so much to do and the people are so friendly. It could also be that this trip we went with a ton of friends so we were never bored. I HIGHLY recommend taking a trip with a big group sometime but don’t feel bad if you need to get away for some alone time because in a romantic place like this, you’ll want it!
 So we stayed here:
yeah not bad right! Lyle’s manager said he has stayed at a few places along the beach and this was by far the nicest. If you’re going to Cancun i suggest staying here!
Right on the beach…although most of the resorts are
My amazing lunch! shrimp, chicken and beef kabobs over rice. This was probably my favorite food i ate the whole trip.
Everyone raved about the churros from the Mexican restaurant. My husband being one of them! 
They had a couple restaurants that you could choose to eat at- nice sit down ones or a buffet (which was only good at breakfast) and some snack bars for lunch. All inclusive- including the room service and 600 pina coladas and miami vices we drank…whoops.
We got to cross off our bucket list a few things- one of which was Parasailing! I loved it. You got to see everything! They rode us out on Jetskis which was my favorite part and then we got to ride on the boat until it was our turn. We were up there for 10-12 minutes and it was amazing. Oh & we got to play with Bobba. She was ADORABLE. I was so in love. When i saw her we were in line for food and i started freaking out- lyle was like what?! 
These pictures of me arent that flattering but there is a monkey in them so who cares.
Bobba (the monkey) decided to pee on the head of the poor boy in front of me & i was grateful we got in the line right after him…
Oh and we saw some cool Mayan Ruins
standing in the doorway of our home…if we lived a gazillion years ago
^we hiked this bad boy. and my legs were dying the next day.
also getting up was a lot easier than getting down…
and sometimes wearing a maxi skirt may seem like a cute fun idea but it may not be so cute when you fall down the mayan ruins…just fyi. thankfully my husband reminded me to hold my skirt so i did not fall victim to such a tragedy.
us at the top!
on the way down…
what the sketch. 
Next stop: Chichen Itza….this we sadly could not climb

 the Mayans used to play a game here- They had to hit the ball through the hoop- this is the largest stadium…our tour guide referred to it as the superbowl arena for the mayans. 

Hieroglyphics of one of the players.
The captain of the winning team was sacrificed and he was all excited because he thought he was going to be a God. I would never want to win…
on top of one of the smaller ruins. We did our tour through Helaman Tours and i HIGHLY recommend it. Its an LDS tour group and it bring the Book of Mormon into it and how it plays a part and its awesome. 
of course i had to get a picture of one of the ancient aztec mayan dogs. There were tons of dogs running around- this one was one of the healthier ones- it was so depressing. 
Our group! (well not everyone but those who went on this excursion!)
After the ruins they fed us lunch and took us here, to swim in this almost cave like place.
Lyle would boogyboard ALL day. All the other husbands would come in for a break but nope not mine. He loved it. He was like let me teach you how but he forgot I grew up on the East Coast and have a lot of boogyboarding experience.
my husband is such as stud.
We played with Kenna while Brit & Jas got some beach time. But what started out as this…
 quickly turned to this….
& then i was like ya know someday….20 years from now we could have a zillion baby LCs running around and MAYBE if they are as good as Kenna I will be fine with it.
Lyle was acting like a paparazzi haha
 
We enjoyed the sun, went dancing at a club downtown, saw a cool Michael Jackson show & enjoyed Mexico. Coming back to the snow and cold weather was definitely terrible. I don’t think I have ever said I don’t want to leave so many times in my life. We still had so much more we wanted to do! Swimming with dolphins was next on our list but i guess we need to save some adventures for the rest of the year ;). It was an amazing way to start the year off- i could honestly not ask for a better trip. Its all thanks to this guy who earned this trip because of his hard work. I am so proud of him. I have this dream life because of him. Love you!
I cant wait for the rest of our adventures this year babe!
xoxo CAIT xoxo
P.S.-sorry for the picture overload! I am so in love with my new camera!