Leaving Fiji on an early morning flight to Auckland, we got to the airport with less than hour to spare. No problem so we thought. The ticket agent for Fiji Airways asked us to show our outgoing ticket from New Zealand – which we didn’t have! Since we’ve been kind ...

Bula from Fiji!!! We are now officially one day ahead from everyone back home and halfway around the world! We left Hawaii late Thursday night and arrived in Fiji on Saturday morning.  Crossing the International Date Line cost us a Friday but what we gained was a little piece of...

While in Oahu we decided to hike the Waimea Valley. The 2 mile hike is deeply rooted in Hawaiian history with lessons on Hawaii’s culture, traditions, flora and fauna – ending in the beautiful Waimea Falls. Half way into the hike Vea’s flip flops had a blow-out....

Leaving Kona and the Rogers was sad, but we ended our visit with a great lunch at the Harbour near the airport. While we had lunch a boat cruised by that had a name of ‘Aloha Kai’ – we thought this was a good sign to island hop to Oahu.  After two weeks of living without...

HI! this is a guest blog (GLOG) by Jaida. In case you do not know me I am Norrie and Kari’s niece & Kai and Vea’s cousin!  I am going to talk about my time with the Matthews! After not seeing each other for almost 9 months we were all very excited to re-unite in Hawaii! We...

Today I am going to tell you about my experience scuba diving…. So it started off by doing a test about the very basics of scuba diving , I only got one wrong, so I did pretty good. Then we got into the pool water. We started off in 4 feet of water – it was very...

Today was my 12th birthday and this is what we did…………… Well first of all my birthday was in Hawaii so It was going to be good even if we did not do anything. So my Dad, Tony and I went out to pine trees for an early morning surf. When we got to pine...

This is a story about Hawaiian cultures……… Hula dancing I went to hula with my cousin Jaida! I was a bit scared because I was the only young one there. But after a wile I started to like it. Then we stared to learn dances to go with the song and it got a bit...

We arrived in Maui after a long flight from Los Angeles and were greeted by the Rogers with fresh Hawaiian Lei’s and huge hugs. It was so nice to see them after so many months, and we quickly felt the warm Aloha of the Hawaiian Islands.  Beth and Tony found a great condo for all...