Jay Leno, Airplanes & Hawaii

Outside the NBC studios in Burbank.

This is the sign outside the Jay Leno show that we were at on Friday night! It was super fun.

Emma on the plane heading to Hawaii. Too bad Hawaii is not closer!

Emma being goofy on the plane. Dad asks her to make funny faces and here is hers.

Emma on the beach in Hawaii!!

View from dinner.

Sunset view from our dinner table.

More views from our dinner table. We ate at Hula Grill right about Duke's restaurant.
They had a band playing and the kids loved to watch all the band from our table.

Jim & the kids hanging out just before dinner tonight.
Cheeseburger in Paradise, oh so yummy.

Bobby, his dad, the kids and I packed up our stuff early Thursday morning and headed to the airport. We had a 5 hour flight to San Diego to visit his Aunt Marilyn. We arrived at her house around 4pm her time and hung out on her back porch. Her house is on the golf course and they have a practice putting green in their back yard as well as a large built in hot tub. Well our kids decided that they wanted to start throwing things in the hot tub. First they put in a large rock, then they threw in golf balls, one by one, until they were all in. The kids had so much fun. They are loving their Aunt Mary-as Emma calls her. I think she is trying to say Marilyn, but it is just too hard. Friday, his aunt let us borrow her red Mercedes to the Jay Leno show. Our GPS said it would only take 1 hour and 30mins to get there, but with LA traffic it took us over 2 hours. We got there at 3 and our tickets said that we had to be there no later than 3. We got in line and waited 45 minutes to get in. They told us that they might have to split us up because there were barely any seats left. But it ended up that we got awesome seats just on the second balcony right in the center. Jay was hilarious. He did stupid 911 calls, then interviewed Hugh Laurie from House and then Dana-someone. He/she is a drag queen who wears really sparkling clothes. We had a great time. The next morning our plane to Hawaii left at 6:15. Thank goodness that we were still on Atlanta time!! We had to get up at 3:30am!!! We had a layover in Salt Lake City and finally got to Hawaii at 2:30pm. We were traveling for 15 hours! There are no direct flights from San Diego to Hawaii. It would have taken less time for us to fly from Atlanta non stop. Bobby's cousin, Kelly and her two kids, and Aunt Marilyn met us at our condo. The kids are having so much fun together. Allyssa is 4, Emma is almost 3, Conner is 2 and Jack will be 2 in December. So they are very close in age. We went to the Military pool on Sunday since Kelly is in the Army. It is a nice pool and the kids has so much fun playing together. We went to dinner that night at Hula Grill that is located just over Duke's which is right on the beach.
It is amazing to me the amount of high end stores that are located on the main drive. In less than 1/2 mile we pass, Rolex, Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Ferrari Store, Channel, and many others that I cannot think of now. We are having a great time. Everyone is doing well with the time change except for me! It is now 4am Hawaii time (10am Atlanta time) and I am wide awake! This is the 3rd day in a row that I have been awake at 2-3am and could not fall back asleep. Good thing I am able to take a nap when the kids go down in the afternoon.