Pictures from Devon and Matt's wedding and trip to Hawaii, May 2014

1. Devon and Matt
May 6, 2014

2. Marriage licence obtained from
the basement of a drug store –
check!
Next up: Stanley Park

3. BC dogs do not like birds.

4. Turns out the “Lost Lagoon”
isn’t too hard to find.
Look! Here it is!

5. Gorgeous totems…
…and our new friend, this lady!

6. Next stop on the tour…Halfmoon Bay!

7. $86 for the ferry!
Once Matt
recovered, he
realized the views
were stunning!

8. Then we practiced our nice faces for wedding pictures…

9. Our Halfmoon Bay
retreat, right on
the coast

12. Our ceremony, officiated by the lovely Gwen Walwyn

15. WE DID IT!

16. Check it out!
Practice makes perfect!
Oh wait, this is better.

17. Time for some photos in the Ewok Village!

21. Hey, I caught the bouquet!

22. Rose petal turn-down serviceOh gee, did Devon
wreck it? OOPS!

23. Cake for two…yum!

25. We bid farewell to our tenthouse
and head back to Vancouver.

27. Harbour tour!

29. Smell ya later, Vancouver. It’s Hawaii time!

30. The view
from our
hotel
balcony
Waikiki
Beach and
the Pacific
Ocean

31. Lanikai Beach on the
windward coast

32. 7:00 a.m. Hawaii time, but
1:00 p.m. at home.
Baseball anyone?
Statue of Duke Kahanamoku –
Ambassador of Aloha –
welcomed us to Waikiki Beach

33. The North Shore. From November to February,
waves are typically 30 feet or higher.
Waimea Valley nature
preserve, North Shore

34. (The bench will give you some sense of scale.)
Checking out the
local real estate…

36. Waimea
Falls

37. People, for scale

38. Sunset Beach – just outside Waimea Valley

39. 360o view from our hotel rooftop…

40. Hey, some awesome
people on the roof!

41. Waikiki Trolley tour
Diamond Head Lighthouse
Monument to Amelia Earhart…
…and the view beyond it.

42. Aboard the trolley
Our tour guide kindly took a picture with our new pal in the
sunglasses and the kid behind us who cried through the entire ride.

43. Breaking the rules…
…and celebrating with a new ukelele!

44. Pause in the fun for a day at Pearl Harbor. We
started at the USS Arizona Memorial – the gravesite
of 1,102 sailors who perished on December 7, 1941.
Sunken ship wreckage
Memorial built overtop

45. Our next stop: The USS Missouri battleship, where the
Japanese signed their official surrender, ending WWII.
Overlooking the USS Arizona memorial site,
standing guard over the fallen soldiers.

46. We hiked to the top of Diamond Head –
Honolulu’s dormant volcano.
Hey! There’s the lighthouse again!

48. Paddling out…
Devon
…surfin’ in!

49. Iolani Palace – home of the last monarchs of Hawaii

51. Drinks at Duke’s
(yes, same as the statue guy!)
Our last night in Hawaii –
Waikiki beach