I am constantly surprised at how cheap it is to get to Hawaii, at least from the West Coast. For anyone who's looking to fly to Hawaii from somewhere else and doesn't see cheap flights, I would encourage you to look from San Francisco, Oakland, LA, and see if you can find a cheap flight there that you might have to buy a separate flight to connect to, because our flights ended up being less than $300 round trip, and they kept dropping over the course of time.

So once I booked our flights, they got automatically imported in to TripIt, and I just got these email alerts, "Oh, your flight's down $20. Great. We'll rebook it and get $20 of credit per person. Oh, your flight's dropped again." And so at that price, it wasn't even worth trying to use miles to book the flight because it was just such a good deal.