Aulani Jan 19th-30th -Embrace the Ocean-Jan30th FINISHED

We are leaving for our first trip in 5 weeks, so I was so happy to see your report. Thanks so much for your hard work on this, I'm loving it! I have a question about the cooking demonstration... Is this on their website? I was looking for something Like this for my MIL, and I can't find it listed anywhere??
 
We are leaving for our first trip in 5 weeks, so I was so happy to see your report. Thanks so much for your hard work on this, I'm loving it! I have a question about the cooking demonstration... Is this on their website? I was looking for something Like this for my MIL, and I can't find it listed anywhere??

Thanks for reading.

The information is on the DVC Member site under Perks and Benefits. The number you call is actually the Aulani Concierge Desk.
 
Friday Jan 29

The last full day of our trip had arrived. Welcomed sunrise on the Aulani beach—I ate my favorite vacation breakfast which I had picked up with my dinner shrimp last night. Nothing says I'm on vacation like a huge, sweet Disney specialty cupcake for breakfast—macadamia nut and pineapple. To work off my breakfast, DM and I walked to the end of the beach walk, past the four coves. There was lots of wave watching, fisherman watching, and an awesome crab rock. One moment the rock is empty, clear of anything and then this wave washes over it. As soon as the wave recedes, all these crabs suddenly appear on the rock. It happened so fast and I was fascinated trying to get pictures of the crabs—of course, this meant that I totally missed the whale out on the horizon blowing water....sigh.
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When we got back, I did a little resort roaming. Love the kakui nut inspired lamps.
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When my dad first saw this Menehune, he asked my why there was a frog under the pay phone.
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Fish feeding in the Koi pond—more gaping fish mouths.
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Rainbow Reef viewing grotto with underwater menehune.
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Our favorite pastime while floating in the lazy river was finding all the different rock animal carvings—not limited to there though—every rock surface held hidden treasures.
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Ran into photopass photographer.
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For lunch we were celebrating my parents anniversary and DM’s birthday with a meal at AMA AMA. I had checked with the photopass counter to see if a photographer would be near the restaurant entrance so we could get some celebration pictures. Enroute we found Aunty Sonya and the photopass photographer was able to get us all in some group shots.
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The restaurant wasn't crowded yet and we had a table right at the edge with a peaceful view of the beach. I tried the Lime in the Coconut non-alcoholic drink—it was good but I preferred the pineapple-ginger splash. The food was good too but DM and I both thought it tasted very “healthy”; in my opinion, the fish tacos really needed more sauce. Dad ordered the Reuben—he liked it. However, the surprise dessert at the end was fantastic—every element was super rich and tasty. I could have eaten the whole thing myself.
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Today was the last day for pictures as I wanted to buy the Photopass CD that evening so I grabbed some final photos with Stitch and Mickey/Minnie. Again Aunty Sonya was looking out for me. She was helping with the Stitch line and I mentioned to her that I was a little bummed that Stitch didn't have an official photographer—he was the only character all week that I never found with a photopass person. After my Stitch photo, I went to stand in Mickey/Minnie's line and sure enough, the photopass person shows up for Stitch. I'm halfway across the lawn and Aunty Sonya starts waving and calling to me so of course, I had to go back and say good-bye to Stitch once more, with official photographic evidence.
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I'm Baaaack!
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Surprisingly we hadn't actually been in the ocean so we took this opportunity for an official ocean dip.
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Later in the afternoon, DM and I put in some laundry and took photos around the grounds.
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Room balcony pics.
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Any last words from the talking rock?

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Shaved ice machine light fixture—very cool.
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Could have sat here all day...
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Finally it was time to pack up and complete on-line check-in for tomorrow's flight. Then we headed back to cove 2 for our final sunset photos. On the way home, I was thrilled to finally capture a pic of a mongoose-we'd seen them darting around the whole trip but I hadn't been quick enough with the camera.
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The End

Ended Friday evening in the room with Antman, pineapple and popcorn.

On Saturday morning, mom did one more beach walk --these are the last pictures I have. The flight home was uneventful and the tail wind helped us arrive even a few minutes early. So this is the end. We had a great time and my parents look forward to calling Aulani home a couple weeks every winter for the foreseeable future (and I of course look forward to visiting them)
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Thanks everyone for following along—hopefully it was worthwhile.

Aloha!
Karilynn

 
macadamia nut and pineapple

That sounds and looks delicious.


All over sudden, I am no longer so sure about swimming in the lagoons. Crabs freak me out.

Enroute we found Aunty Sonya and the photopass photographer was able to get us all in some group shots.

How nice that they were able to do this and how lucky that you were able to get a Photopass photo with Stitch later in the day.


That view is spectacular.

Thanks for sharing. I thoroughly enjoyed reading along.

Corinna
 
All the meals at Roy's looked lovely. So nice people respected the seals, but wish they would do so for the turtles as well.

You got a lot of great pictures, you really should make one of them your profile picture! Nice that you got to celebrate on your last day, but that's too bad that the place was trying to be so healthy. Did you ever make it to Monkeypod? I don't remember seeing if you did or not.

The sunset pictures were again gorgeous! I hope you get to return every winter, that would be great fun!
 
Did you ever make it to Monkeypod? I don't remember seeing if you did or not.

The sunset pictures were again gorgeous! I hope you get to return every winter, that would be great fun!

No we didn't. The prices were pretty equivalent to Roy's and the view over the golf course gave Roy's that little extra.

My parents generously keep the door open for me --definitely heading back in 2018. Right now, I have DCL plans for late Jan 2017 which will depend on whether I can find travel partners.
 
Really, really enjoyed following your trip report, thank you for sharing! We are going in July and I cannot wait! Your TR helped so much. Loved all the photos =)
 
:yay::fish::yay:

Our time frame will typically be late Jan--gets us a break from our gray, wet winters. It would be cool though if we happened to be there at the same time.

--Karilynn

We are either looking at spring or fall. We will celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary in February and then in October it will be Graham's 60th birthday.

Corinna
 
Thanks so much for writing up this lovely report, Karilynn! It was wonderful seeing all your pictures and planning ahead for our first visit to Aulani next summer. I especially loved the food reviews. I know these reports are a lot of work and your beautiful photos certainly provide a little bit of vicarious vacation - thanks again for sharing!!
 

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