Last week Matt's work had a conference and an awards banquet. All the nominee's for the awards got to stay at the Hilton down town and do "tourists stuff "all week. Since Matt was nominated for an award we got to participate like all the other "tourists." We were the only nominee from Hawaii so most the stuff we had already done. Wednesday they took us to the Pearl Harbor Memorial. It was my fourth time going this year but it's always a humbling experience to stand above the USS Arizona and remember all the lives that were lost and our still lost today so that we can have our freedom. That night we went on a sunset/dinner cruise. (Matt left the camera at the hotel so, sorry, no pictures) Some hump back whales swam right by our boat, it was really cool. We stood on the very top deck and watched the sun set over the water and we even claim that we saw "the green flash." Thursday the activity was a hike to the Makapu'u light house. Since we had hiked there in November with Matt's parents and I was 36 weeks pregnant we stayed at the hotel. We went to breakfast at a McDonalds that had an ocean view and went swimming at the pool. That night was the awards banquet so we got all dressed up (which was really fun becasue it was Valentines) and went down to the ballroom for dinner and the awards ceremony. The next day was "Sports day" at Bellow's beach. Matt's team won the Ultimate Frisbee compition and I got sunburned! It was a really nice "vacation" and the best part was that after it was all over we only had to drive about 20 minutes and we were home!
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Hooray! More pictures! I'm so glad. You guys look really good. I think the dinner cruise sounds so fun, and I can't believe you got to see hump back whales. That's totally cool! We need to come during the winter so we can see whales too.
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