Clearly we have been back from Hawaii for about 2 weeks! I am such a blogging slacker….but I am also very pregnant and was informed I might not be making it to my due date of August 18th. So instead of coming home to blog I have been trying to ready everything on the off chance Camden decides to make an appearance!
Anywho back to the trip. This post is a two parter since it was our Island tour and there are ALOT of pictures!!!
So here we go:
This was our first stop. It was beautiful and our first glimpse of what we always imagined Hawaii would be. (Waikiki is like a city so it wasnt what you would think.) The other side of the Island was gorgeous though!!!
The second picture is where From Here to Eternity was filmed…so that was pretty cool to see. The final picture looks like a wave crashing on rocks but that is actually THE BLOWHOLE its a small hole in the rocks where wave pressure created a geyser, pictures dont do it justice really.
Then we were back on the bus and off to our next stop the lookout.
The lookout is a huge cliff made from the volcano in which you can look over the valley of the Island. From here you could see the Island they used for Gilligans Island…..Oahu is pretty famous, but more on that later. The first picture was of chickens, which are everywhere, we were really surprised they were living up on this cliff and that there was like 20 of them up there!
Clearly not the next stop, but this was my tour outfit. Scentsy gave us those backpacks and it was key for all our traveling items. Dan said I looked cute and wanted to take a picture, then he told me that really it was because I looked like I was on 16 and pregnant.
This was also from the lookout and freaked me out…I am afraid of heights to begin with but why have a battle on a cliff?!?!?! Clearly someone is falling off!!!
The last stop Im going to talk about in this post is the buddhist temple. It is a recreation of a temple in Japan and is beautiful, it is in a local cemetery.
The first picture is of the Japanese grave stones, they are all in one area and were beautiful. They only put the last name of the family on them.
The second picture is of a giant Gong there that you could ring, Dan has a video of him ringing it that I took, it was a highlight for him.
Everyone honored this and removed their shoes.
The temple was beautiful!
Dan really liked that statue and made a new friend!!!
So that was part one of our tour, tomorrow part 2 plus our first dinner provided by Scentsy!
Have a great tuesday!!!
