Kukaniloko Birthing Stones and much more

Todays' adventure started with a very local and close historic site. It was actually the first recognized historical landmark in Oahu, and it was right down the road from us. The Kukaniloko Birthing Stones are a very sacred location to the Hawaiian people. This is where the royalties would come to give birth to the future kings.

I printed out a report on the location and read it to the boys while we were there. It was a very neat experience.

After this, David decided that Jocelyn needed a baby doll, so we headed to Toys R Us. While we were walking around, David made the realization that with all the money we had made during our hotel stay, we hadn't gotten the boys anything. He concluded that they could each have $50 to buy whatever they wanted. What fun! A Toys R Us shopping spree!!!! So many things to chose from! In the end, Jocelyn got two baby dolls, and a ring stacker toy. Donovan got a new set of wooden train tracks, some new trains, and a little kid version of beyblades. Porter and Kyron went together to buy a beyblade stadium, then they each got a two pack of beyblades. Porter also got a three pack of little transformers. David told Kyron that if he didn't use all his money, that he could have it to save it for something else. After a few days, he decided that he needed to earn $3 to put it together to buy a computer game. The chore he did for that $3 was to clean the car. I'd say that was a good deal for me!

We were right by a Sears, so we stopped in so that I could look for some new workout clothes. I found some great stuff on clearance. Yay! David looked at the tools, but didn't find what he was looking for.

Next we headed to a running store to get David a new GPS watch. As we were looking for the store, we noticed a road that lead to a bridge over the ocean. Intrigued, we turned back around after getting the watch to go explore it. Turns out it was the bridge to Ford Island, a Naval base. Yay for being military and getting to go there to explore! We drove around and took in the sights, and then saw a sign saying the Utah Memorial was up ahead. We decided to stop and take a look.

The boys found it fascinating to see the sunken ship, and realize that people had died there and were, in fact, still in the ship.

It was getting late, and dinner time, so we stopped by the shoppette to get a little something for our drive home. It was a long day, as we kept discovering more things to do. But it was a lot of fun!