family travel hawaii

Hawaii 2011-where do we begin?

June 27, 2011

Travel is getting easier with the duo. At nearly four years old, they can almost navigate themselves and they are a lot more self-sufficient. We went to Oahu a couple weeks ago and had a blast at the Outrigger Reef on the beach. It was a low-key trip where we planned just to sit on […]

Pana ‘ewa Zoo (Hilo, HI)

May 13, 2011

When we went to the Big Island with our family and the grandparents last August, I needed an excuse to drive an hour or so to Hilo to get this mochi I read about and couldn’t leave Hawaii without trying: . It is from a place called The Two Ladies Kitchen and they are famous […]

eating out in hawaii big island with kids at coffee shack

The Coffee Shack-Breakfast with Geckos (Big Island, HI)

December 8, 2010

It’s drippy here in December in Seattle, but in South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii, I imagine it’s gloriously tropical. And a breakfast at the Coffee Shack, a restaurant on the Big Island would make any day perfect rain or shine. When we decided to take our two-year-old boys to the Big Island […]