Andy and I went to Hawaii for our ten year anniversary. Which is in Aug
but with baby number 5 on the way in May we decided to Celebrate a
little early in January.
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| Ready to start our long flight. |
The 1st night we were there they had the All Star Bowl Block Party. The street along Waikiki Beach was closed off for it. Our hotel was on Waikiki so we headed out to listen to some bands. They had all sorts of band from Hawaii favorites, the navy and army preformed, there was an all Asian girl band just to name a few.
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| Halona Blowhole |
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The second Day we were there was Sunday so we attended a Church then decided to see some of the sights. We stopped by the Halona Blowhole. It wasn't shooting up great that day but he view was pretty. By this time the wind was picking up and it had just started a lite sprinkle.
We also hiked up to Makapuu Lighthouse trail. It was a beautiful hike up to the light house along the ocean. It was Humpback whale season and we where lucky enough to see a couple we saw them blow air out, do a head slap, and tail slap. Pretty neat we also saw a Sea Turtle swimming around. Well like I meantion before that it had started to sprinkle when we started the hike about middle of the hike it started rain a little hard then as contined to hike up it started pouring. Water was running down the Mt. By the time we got to the top it was so foggy we didn't get to see much and we were so wet could ring out our clothes. It rain through the rest of the day. Luckily we had dry clothes in the car.
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| Makapuu Lighthouse from a different day because it was too foggy to get a picture that day. |
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| This was a rental car a two door Charger. |
So what do you do on a rainy Sunday in Hawaii? You drive around the island. This is were we were looking to do another hike but it was still raining pretty hard so decided to for go it. The drive to the hike was through this tunnel of trees with vines hang down all over the place. It was pretty cool.
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| Andy tried swinging on a vine but it broke on him |
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We also drove up to the North Shore and watched some surfers
The waves were huge! We stopped but lots of beaches looking for shells to bring back to the girls but we didn't have a lot of luck. We did find a piece of coral at Turtle Bay to bring back and the girl put it in their fish tank when we got home .
On Monday we decided to do more hikes the morning was perfect for it not hot and not raining. we hiked up to a waterfall called Manoa Falls. It was a easy paved hike. It was so beautiful it was like walking into another world so green with flowers and vines everywhere. From the falls we to a trail up the mountain. We hiked trough a bamboo forest and there was the biggest tree I have every seen there Andy climbed up into. It had branches that went was down the mountain. The trail was covered with tree roots at places. It was a fun hike to do.
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| Our very of Honolulu from the top of the mountain |
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| Bamboo Forest |
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| Coolest tree ever. Wish we could make a tree house in it. |
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| Same tree Just farther away |
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| Our trail with the roots over it. |
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| Andy got to do all the fun climbing I didn't think I would make it with baby in my tummy. |
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| Another view of Honolulu |
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| A pineapple plant |
After the hike we went out to try to find another hike but it had started to rain again so we decided to go to the Dole Pineapple Plantation. We had a yummy lunch and of course had a pineapple float. pineapple sorbet with pineapple juice. Yum! It was fun to learn about pineapples and how they grow. The rest of the day we just drove around the Island.
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| Our yummy food |
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| This was the wild life we saw on the island. Lots and lots of chickens and stray cat. They were everywhere. |
