Happy Independence Day!

The 4th of July was pretty much all about the fireworks for us. The Waikiki fireworks show was rumored to be the best on the island (but I've heard different opinions on other shows as well). In any case, it was easy enough for us to get to and why not do it while we're here? Locals book hotels on Waikiki just for this show, (the breakfast buffet was packed the morning after!) just to avoid dealing with the traffic and parking fiasco.

So we walked out to the beach and down to the Hilton Hawaiian Village's lagoon, found ourselves a spot on the beach an hour or so ahead of time and plunked ourselves down.

Immediately after plunking, Xandri decided she REALLY had to pee and absolutely couldn't hold it. Or maybe it was Avril. In any case, I took them both and decided to pick up a diaper for Roman at the nearest ABC Store since Derek was pretty sure he also needed changed and OF COURSE I'd forgotten to just bring one.

So the girls left the boys and this is what happened while we were gone:
(Please note that that is not our little bucket. A family sitting next to us lent it. Roman scores fans wherever he goes!)

And this is what happened when we got back.

Meanwhile, this is what we got to look at while waiting for the show. I love Hawai'i.

The show was amazing and so was the finale. Fireworks are really difficult to capture well since the exposure is so touchy. I was pretty happy with these pics, so I thought I'd share them.