The dream must come to an end our last day

I felt like I was continually pinching myself our entire trip in Kauai.  I felt like the dream would suddenly come to an end and I'd wake up from this blissful paradise.  All the hours of planning on trip advisor, packing lists, swimsuit buying, and anticipation for a trip that felt like it'd never come, was now all of a sudden wrapping up with our last day on the island.  We all enjoyed a nice easy morning in the hotel and then packed up, checked out and set off for our last day in paradise.  I had so meticulously planned what we would do each day.  Today would be a none swimming day since we had a six and half hour flight on our way home.  I didn't want to be digging through suit cases looking for dry clean clothes at the beach.  So we headed up to the north shore of the Island to Limuli Gardens.  This was suppose to be a spectacular botanical garden filled with plants and trees which are native to the island.  As we pulled in the gate was closed. We realized it's not open on Mondays!!!!  What!!!!! I had read about this garden several times and didn't even notice the day's that is closed on?  Really?  I guess I've gotten worse things mixed up in my brain before.  At least I didn't error on something important like a flight time.  So now our day was suddenly opened up.  We were on a tropical island surrounded by surf and sand but forbidden to go in.  I had the kids wear their adorable Hawaiian matching outfits so I could take a bazillion pictures of them in the gardens.  So plan B was to do a mini photo shoot on Hanalei Bay.  The kids protested, but then I gave them a tiny guilt trip about the great expense of this Hawaiian trip and I their loving mother who birthed them, fed them, and changed them (Ok so it was a huge guilt trip).  But the pictures were totally worth it! 

 Another sad protest to taking pictures.  I did take about 800 so by the last day of the trip I really can't blame them, I'd probably feel the same way. 

 This is a hilarious photo of Jence stating he really needed to use the bathroom (he wasn't kidding)

 isn't this adorable?  Probably my favorite of the entire trip.  Man that water was blue! 

 This shows you the amount of work that goes into getting the kids to stand where I want them to stand, look at the camera, it feels like a workout to get a perfect picture!

 Kate looks like a Hawaiian girl she got so tan!

So what was the reward for taking the pictures?  Miniutre golf!  I had passed by a Mini golf sign on our way up to the gardens.  This ended up being the best find.  The kids loved the mini golf, and it was also a botanical garden too!  The gardens had all kinds of Hawaiian trees and waterfalls, and plants.  This made Dan very happy he loves gardening.  I was happy to becaseu yes you guessed it the gardens made for great photos.  This time the kids were more than happy to show off their golf prowess in the photos.

 Here the kids are proudly putting up their Hole in one come back free cards.  They told us that if we got a hole in one just tell them which hole.  If it happened to be the mystery hole then you win a free round of mini golf.  I got a hole in one, kirk got one, and so did Kate.  All on the same hole number 13.  None of us got another hole in one and we aren't even very good.  My hole in one was completely luck.  We told the guy three on hole thirteen and he looked at us in disbelief.  It turns out the the mystery hole thirteen!  We got three free rounds!!!!  There's no expiration date we will see if they will accept them in several years if we ever make it back!