After two days on Oahu, we went over to Kauai for two days. Neither of us had been there, so we wanted to see what it was all about.
The Welcoming Committee of Hawaii ... they are everywhere!
As if one, maybe two or three, signs weren't enough, here are six signs to scare the hee-bee-jebees out of you! The pictures cracked me up!
Okay, okay, I get it, there's a risk here!
Okay...fine...I won't go NEAR the water! I promise!
We went on a hike (the first part of the Kalalau Trail) to a supposed beach (that we couldn't access because of the danger). The place was beautiful, but it was so muddy! The picture doesn't do the justice. We both just left our muddy shoes there and didn't even bother bringing them home.
And if it wasn't muddy, it was a pile of rocks to climb over!
But the views that we saw were out of this world! This is on the Na'Pali Coast, where you can't access unless you hike in or take a helicopter! From this point, you could see about a 210 degree view of the ocean. From here I saw a whale jump out of the water, a rainbow, the curvature of the earth, and a little mouse! Lol. So the pure muddiness was worth it!
This is the end of the trail for us. To continue you have to cross a river (to our left), but the risk of being swept out to the ocean (behind us) is real...and if that happens...you're dead. I'm not lying. It's a washing machine out there. And after watching 2 out of 3 experienced hikers get knocked over and have to cling on to rocks and branches to save themselves, we decided to turn around! We like our lives too much to risk them!
Beautiful Taro fields.
Waimea Canyon was surprising to me. It's on the dry side of the island and is breathtaking. It's just like the Grand Canyon. It was so shockingly windy up there (I clung to X the whole time!) and it was constantly raining up there, so the pictures can't show you the prettiness through the mist. But check out the rainbow X was able to capture!
The B&B we stayed at was at an orchid farm. All the greenhouses were ancient and looked like gnomes inhabited them at night. Kendra, you would have LOVED it. There were HUGE orchids and the tiniest ones ones I've ever seen.
One thing I've always wanted to do was a helicopter ride. We did it last minute and there was only one open seat, so X took one for the team and let me go. I was crammed in with a Senior Citizen tour...awesome. I realized that if you are on the wrong side of the helicopter, you are on the
wrong side of the helicopter. There was a lot I couldn't see, but it was still spectacular. It was fun to see all of the places we had hiked to. And the ride it self was fun!
Watch out, my pictures are horrible. Everything shows the reflection of the window.
The beach below is where one of the girls from
South Pacific "washed that man right out of her hair."
Beginning of Waimea Canyon.
All in all, we are still partial to Oahu (North Shore, NOT Waikiki or Honolulu). If we could do it over again we would have stayed there the whole time. But we are not complaining; we still loved it.
I turned 28...
I ran the Cowtown again (but won't be next year now that they changed it to Sundays...I'm so bitter!)
We've been making playdough and experimenting...
We've been working in the yard a lot (this was back in Feb so it's still pretty ugly!)
Graydon has been "helping" a lot.
We've been going to every park known to man and he loves the slide!! This crazy huge park is insane!
