Christmas

Christmas is coming!! After coming back from Hawaii, we only had a couple of weekends to get ready.  This year, there was a shortage of trees, thank goodness baba and you guys found this great tree at the Glen Lake Optimist Field 

Decorating is always a blast and each year, the tree gets a little heavier with our salt ornaments.   

Busy making turkeys and presents for Santa

Mini Tree in the family room.  We watched our tradition - Curious George.  This year, we also watched Home Alone and your brother wanted Polar Express too.  

Anthony, Mai Wong and Yipao all came to Minnesota to celebrate.  We had lots of yummy food.

Breakfast bar below. 

Baba's favorite spinach tree 

Feast of Seven Fishes (we had 5) 

Best misoyaki butterfish ever - pretty close to Roy's

Christmas star bread

Lamb roast 

Taiwanese beef noodle soup - YUM

You had a long list for Santa:

Big tiger 

Hedgehog - Nipples, Tim, Timmy and Timothy

Hot dog

Pandy

Electric Scooter

Among Us - Cyan

and we also got a VR for the family!

I love you so much Beni.  2020 has been a year filled with changes.  You have been flexible and helpful with your brother.  You are kind, sweet, smart, happy and love your chipwiches!

Hawaii!!

We decided to give Hawaii a try but not before Thanksgiving!  We did a non traditional feast - Peking Duck, Lettuce wraps and Pumpkin pie :) :) 

Hawaii was no easy feat - we needed to schedule our COVID test, test negative, post our results onto the Hawaii app, have them approve the results and then get on a plane.  It was worth it!!

Your absolute favorite is shaved ice.  We had shaved ice daily and sometimes twice a day!

Cabana life

Your brother's favorite - the Dole plantation Choo Choo train :) 

Biggest wave we've seen in all of our Hawaii visits.

Traveling in style - masks on, headphones on, upgrade on.

You were fascinated by these fish waffles at the Seattle airport lol

View when we just arrived

View from our room

First night - no time wasted, right into the lagoon.

Crowds were very low and the reservations turned out to be nice, not a lot of time in the sun or with lots of people 

Japanese garden

With mama!!

By Kualoa Ranch

Heck yeah, ready to rock and roll!

Another beautiful morning

And sunset

All good things come to an end, back home at MSP

ATV was so worth it. Usually they have 1,200 visitors a day.  When we went they had about 200 which was really nice without a ton of people and long waits :)

Super exhausted after ATVing

KoOlina Kat - it was a wavy day, we couldn't go snorkeling and didn't see much but being on the boat was a lot of fun!! We will have to try again next time. 

Berger Boy snorkel

We had a ton of fun - beach, pool, Dole Plantation, Shaved Ice, Pillbox Hike, Japanese temple & Kualoa Ranch, Catamaran and a ton of bath time.