Karen taking a nap, soaking up the sun, and just plain relaxing.
The hottest mamma on the block.
We toko the road home and stopped at the Aloha Flea Market again to pick up some more stuff, but ended up at the hotel to see the sun go down. Oh YEAH!
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Day 6, part 7
Part 7--sheesh! Let's make it worth it! Check out this sweet panorama I made of Hanuama Bay.
Karen taking a nap, soaking up the sun, and just plain relaxing.
The hottest mamma on the block.
We toko the road home and stopped at the Aloha Flea Market again to pick up some more stuff, but ended up at the hotel to see the sun go down. Oh YEAH!
Karen taking a nap, soaking up the sun, and just plain relaxing.
The hottest mamma on the block.
We toko the road home and stopped at the Aloha Flea Market again to pick up some more stuff, but ended up at the hotel to see the sun go down. Oh YEAH!
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Day 6, part 6
Hanauma Bay = FREAKING AWESOME!
OK--this is like one of those pictures you have to stare at before you really see the fish. There are a TON of them! Look for the big black eyes!
OK--this is like one of those pictures you have to stare at before you really see the fish. There are a TON of them! Look for the big black eyes!
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Day 6, part 5
THIS guy was at least 2-2.5 FEET LONG!!!!
just in case no one knows, this brown and white one is a HUGE blow fish. I'm not sure you can tell here but he's at least 18 inches long:
And MORE fish!!!!
Monday, June 19, 2006
Day 6, part 2
Well, this is more for Camm than it is for anyone else--let's see how many he can actually identify without looking in a book! Answers will be posted in a post after he's been given enough time to make educated guesses! Some of these are like find waldo because things have natural abilities to blend into their environments, so look carefully! ; )
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Day 6, part 1
On day 6, we headed back to Hanauma Bay. I know we already visited it once, but it was SO cool, we just had to go back--this time, in the morning. Look how few people there were at about 7:30 AM!
This became one of our great Hawaiian vacation traditions--drinking a Hawaiian Sun on the beach and eating a coconut-pinapple breakfast muffin from the Dole Plantation. YUM!
This became one of our great Hawaiian vacation traditions--drinking a Hawaiian Sun on the beach and eating a coconut-pinapple breakfast muffin from the Dole Plantation. YUM!
Friday, June 16, 2006
Day 5, part 3
OK--so the Sea Life Park dolphin swim was ok--I had a blast, but I'm not sure I'd suggest anyone else do it unless you're a kid. The lion show, dolphin show, and turtle feeding/petting was pretty fun I must admit, but the single best thing of all things at the Sea Life Park?!?!?!! The underwater adventure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! word. I'll let the photos speak for them selves.
So we go down 35 feet. My ears have never been under so much pressure! You see they feed them veggies and man--the fish start going NUTS!
That's Karen and I in the background of this turtle.
There were two Ray's in there too. HUGE!
Karen and I got to touch them a LOT while we were in there. They are the silkiest skinned animals I've ever felt. Where dolphins are more leathery and shed their top layer of skin every 3 or so hours, these rays' skin is so sensitive to the touch, that you can't even TOUCH their top skin. Hence, Karen's rubbing the bottom side here. Magnificent animals.
So we go down 35 feet. My ears have never been under so much pressure! You see they feed them veggies and man--the fish start going NUTS!
That's Karen and I in the background of this turtle.
There were two Ray's in there too. HUGE!
Karen and I got to touch them a LOT while we were in there. They are the silkiest skinned animals I've ever felt. Where dolphins are more leathery and shed their top layer of skin every 3 or so hours, these rays' skin is so sensitive to the touch, that you can't even TOUCH their top skin. Hence, Karen's rubbing the bottom side here. Magnificent animals.
Day 5, part 2
This is the Sea Life Park. Karen's in front of a Dolphin show tank here.
We got to pet little baby seat turtles!!!
And fee the adults some broccoli, cabbage, and some vitamin pellets.
Now, these are the normal pictures of me at the dolphin swim (yes--I got to swim in the pool with the dolphins and touch them and ride on them for a little bit. They made us take these CHEEZY stupid pictures. One of the beast's nose against my cheek (a kiss--DUH!), and some other cheezy ones. I didn't pay the $40 dollars for the three or so piuctures, but I DID get some video of them so I can take a picture from THAT and then I'll post those later. They're rather embarassing, but I'll still post them later. Anyway, here I am just before I went in the water.
Here's the show they did after I was in the water with them.
We got to pet little baby seat turtles!!!
And fee the adults some broccoli, cabbage, and some vitamin pellets.
Now, these are the normal pictures of me at the dolphin swim (yes--I got to swim in the pool with the dolphins and touch them and ride on them for a little bit. They made us take these CHEEZY stupid pictures. One of the beast's nose against my cheek (a kiss--DUH!), and some other cheezy ones. I didn't pay the $40 dollars for the three or so piuctures, but I DID get some video of them so I can take a picture from THAT and then I'll post those later. They're rather embarassing, but I'll still post them later. Anyway, here I am just before I went in the water.
Here's the show they did after I was in the water with them.
Monday, June 12, 2006
Day 5, part 1
Well, Tuesday. What a day. We started out by heading down to Waikiki just so we could at least say we stopped by and saw it. We started on the West portion of the beach front hotels along the beach, and made our way all the way down to the far eastern side. Then, walked along the sidewalk all the way back and did some minor shopping at the local ABC stores. Here's a picture of my footprints.
This is some random guy who's lucky enough to be sitting on the beach some morning in May. This is weird to see like, NO one on Waikiki. It was fairly early though. Like--8 AM?
Here's a classic picture of the palm tree view on the main strip of Ala Moana headed through Waikiki.
After eating breakfast again at the Wailana Coffee place and getting our fill of coconut pancakes, we took a tripi the the International Festival to look for some stuff for some friends of ours in Houston. We didn't see ANYthing of worth there though. It was right when they all opened so hardly ANYone was there so perhaps we just caught it at a bad time of the day. At least we got our picture there though ; ). Too bad the Tourist who took our picture doesnt know how to take pictures--he cut off the words in the sign!
We ended up heading towards the eastward (windward) side of the island until we hit the Sea Life Park. On our way in that direction, we always passed this house that Karen wants to buy someday. Look at the weirdo window on the far right hand side above the garage area. It's very Piccaso-ish.<
This is some random guy who's lucky enough to be sitting on the beach some morning in May. This is weird to see like, NO one on Waikiki. It was fairly early though. Like--8 AM?
Here's a classic picture of the palm tree view on the main strip of Ala Moana headed through Waikiki.
After eating breakfast again at the Wailana Coffee place and getting our fill of coconut pancakes, we took a tripi the the International Festival to look for some stuff for some friends of ours in Houston. We didn't see ANYthing of worth there though. It was right when they all opened so hardly ANYone was there so perhaps we just caught it at a bad time of the day. At least we got our picture there though ; ). Too bad the Tourist who took our picture doesnt know how to take pictures--he cut off the words in the sign!
We ended up heading towards the eastward (windward) side of the island until we hit the Sea Life Park. On our way in that direction, we always passed this house that Karen wants to buy someday. Look at the weirdo window on the far right hand side above the garage area. It's very Piccaso-ish.<
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Day 4, part 6
Here's what we saw on our first day at Hanauma Bay
We got to Hanauma bay pretty late in the afternoon, so we stayed, saw enough to have a great time, and decided to re-schedule another morning to come and see it (we'll get to those pictures soon enough). Here's another picture of the ride home on Like Like highway
Now, this is the road down to the North shore--yes, down as in altitude, but headed to the northern shore of the island. We drove this SO many times while we were there. Notice the reflection of the sun on the water. It totally freaked me out the first time I saw this on Friday when we arrived. I was like--is that?!?!?! Water?!!? WHOA. There was just so MUCH of it!
Another view a little further down the road.
We got to Hanauma bay pretty late in the afternoon, so we stayed, saw enough to have a great time, and decided to re-schedule another morning to come and see it (we'll get to those pictures soon enough). Here's another picture of the ride home on Like Like highway
Now, this is the road down to the North shore--yes, down as in altitude, but headed to the northern shore of the island. We drove this SO many times while we were there. Notice the reflection of the sun on the water. It totally freaked me out the first time I saw this on Friday when we arrived. I was like--is that?!?!?! Water?!!? WHOA. There was just so MUCH of it!
Another view a little further down the road.
