hawaii

well we went to hawaii. we went to the Kona island. It was lots of fun. we save lava desserts and lush rain forest, volcano craters and lava spilling into the ocean steaming with the waves. we saw sea turtles sunning on the beaches, and went snorkling by captin cook monument. it was really pretty. all of the different colors of fish, and they were so bright , purple, yellow, and orange accents. we even saw a few eels, but they were bashful and turned around we they saw people. we went horse back riding, my horse would have rather been grazing, but humored me most of the time, until i wanted him to walk through really deep mud, then he pretty much rode me into the bushes until i fell off. :) we played in the waves one day at hapuna beach. the waves were taller than brian and i just floated on them. the salt water is different but also fun. there were so many pretty waterfalls around the island besides the big ones advertised for visitors. the different colored sand beaches were fun to see too. the sand is made from the waves wearing down the lava rocks so some beaches had black sand some had green sand some were pebbles, some was actually normal looking sand. we hiked down to one beach on the north of the island that was at the end of a road. really the road ended and then there was a hiking trail down to the beach. it was really amazing. we drove around the outside of the island and through the middle of the island on "saddle" road. i'd say we had quite the adventure. it was fun and exhausting, sounds about right, i even layed by the beach for a little while. apple bananas and papayas are very good there, and the purple sweet potatos were so yummy. one restaraunt made mashed purple sweet potatos with coconut milk--so good(jackierays restaruant- his car is amazingly cool). i even tasted some of brian's hawaiin sword fish. it was good. i had homemade icecream banana storm flavor that was banana ice cream with oreos in it, yum. we ate at huli sue's she does good bbq. we had breakfast at our hotel one morning it was my favorite. with the granola and all the toppings and purple sweet potato hashbrowns, who could ask for more? i mean really. :) it was very clean and people were very nice there. we went to the mauna loa macadamia nut factory. the factory was closed but we looked in the windows and toured the gift shop. (costco in hawaii has bigger bags of chocolate coconut macadamias from mauna loa for a better price :) we bought some of our soviners from walmart and one wooden turtle carving at at farmers market. it was made in indonesia, but it looks cool. people(tourists) write words on the black lava fields with white rocks. some are cool but others not so much. it is basically grafitti, but kinda fun looking. it rained everyday, but seemed to stop for us when we got out of the car. there is wet and dry side of the island. rain varies from 10 inches to over 200 inches in various parts of the island. drastic landscape changes. somewhere over the rainbow was a popular song there. we saw the kona temple in the dark there is a wall made of lava rocks on one side of the grounds(south side i think) it is next to a chapel. it was hidden back in a neighborhood. we could see it from the main road but it took us a while to find the round about way to weave in there. guess we should have looked for an address first. :) Yes it was a fun trip, i am gald we went, even if i missed a week of school including a test and had a different on the day after we got back and i didn't get to see my kids for 12 days, and caught myself admiring other peoples kids while we were there. it was a good trip