Thursday, September 1, 2011

Aloha

Our vacation to Kauai, Hawaii was awesome! We were there 6 nights and had a wondering time. I loved the smell when we walked off the air plane.. it smelled tropical. Yes, we did take millions of pictures and sorry I couldn't decide on a few so there are a ton!
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This was our luxurious hotel, The Kauai Sands. Ha ha it was really old.. we had some sweet green shag carpet though. It was cheap, it was right on the beach and we left early in the morning and came back and crashed so cheap was the way to go.
This was the beach at our hotel

Wailua Falls

Hanalei

Spent all day every day at the beach relaxing


We went on a kayak trip that had amazing views and hiked to Secret Falls
Secret Falls

This was tree tunnel road, it was my favorite road

Waimea caynon- they call it the grand canyon of the islands


The upper right picture is a mountain called King Kong. It was in an old Indiana Jones movie




Pu'u o Kila lookout- this was the most breath taking view we had ever seen. I wanted to just sit there all day and take it in.

This is a monk seal that came and slept on our beach the whole day. There are only 33 that come to the island of kauai. There are volunteers that you call if you see one and they come and rope it off and educate you about the animal and sit there until they leave.

Snorkeling was amazing! The fish were so bright and colorful. We snorkeled every day for hours and hours



This is Po'ipu beach, our favorite place to snorkel

The food was amazing there and especially the banana pancakes at a small family restaurant.
Our favorite place to eat had these delicious hawaiian polish dogs with pineapple relish..yum.. I still crave them. If you ever go to this island you have to go to Puka dog. More favorites were this Korean bbq restuarant, shave ice with macadamia nut ice cream, kalua pork tacos and fresh pineapple.


Hanalei Bay

Tunnels beach- also a great place to snorkel. We got to swim with a sea turtle and it was awesome.

View of the Napali coast- 17 miles of no beach
Opaeka'a Falls


I love this tree


I got up at 5:30 our last morning there and watched the sunrise. It was beautiful and Braeden sure missed out! It was so hard to leave this amazing place. Every time we drove by the hospital we wanted to stop in and see if there were any jobs, but we didn't and decided we could go back real soon! For those who want to go to Hawaii I would definitely recommend Kauai.

6 comments:

Amy Wheelwright said...

cute pics. It makes me want to go back. And I love the tree pic too! thats one that you could order as a canvas print and hang on your wall. So fun!

Danielle said...

GAH! I'm so jealous! It looks so wonderful!!! You are the 3rd couple I know that went to Hawaii within the past month! Holy smokes- I think it's a sign I need to go ;) Awesome pictures...that's so fun you guys got to go:)

The Congers said...

Oh man looks amazing! I so happy you guys got to take a break from all the hard work you have been up to the past couple of years. And I am so happy you took so many great pictures, you looked great, and the views were amazing! Thanks for sharing.

J Fo said...

Dreamy is the only word I can think of to describe that! I feel more relaxed just having looked at the pictures. :) Thanks!

Brooke said...

I AM SO JEALOUS! Looks like you guys had a great time. Next time Chris and I go to Hawaii you will have to let us know all of the fun places you went or just come with us! When we went to Hawaii we had no idea where to go...seriously, those pictures are amazing! I love that pic of Braeden with the turtle! So cool. My kids would of gone nuts.

Kolob Canyon Realtor said...

How wonderful, thanks for all the pictures, you guys are so cute. Love laura