Hawaii!!! Ten year anniversary trip. It was an adventure.

On our way to Hawaii, at 3:55 am. I slept 45 min. max.

We had a long layover in Vancouver, so we left the airport, and caught a train downtown.

We saw this tall tower that looked like the revolving restaurant in Winnipeg, so we decided to check it out and ended up having a nice lunch there. It was pretty awesome. I had never been to British Columbia before, so it was cool to be able to see so much in such a short time.

Landing in Kauai, Hawaii. I was pretty tired at this point, so I am not sure I fully appreciated the view at the time. Looking at the pictures, though, it was pretty.

Sunday morning on Easter we went to church. I love going to church at the different places that we travel to. It is a really good way to meet local people. Sunday afternoon we walked around some pretty gardens and a little along the coast. Rested after our long travels the day before.

At our resort.

I thought this was pretty cool. Every time a wave came in, water shot up into the air.

Chickens everywhere.

Monday we went on a Catamaran over to see the Napali coast and go snorkeling. It was beautiful. We had breakfast and lunch on the boat.

The Napali Coast

Sea turtles... kinda hard to see, but there were tons of them. We got to go snorkeling them. They would come up to us within just a few feet and look at us. It was pretty cool.

We saw tons of spinner dolphins. They were everywhere. They kept jumping out of the water. We also saw two humpback whales. The guide said it is a little late in the season to see whales, so it was kinda cool, but alas no pics of the whales.

They pulled the boat up right next to this waterfall, so that those that wanted to could cool off.

Right before we went snorkeling with the sea turtles.

Hula pie at Keoki's.

Playing tennis. We managed to get all of the balls out of the court. Yep, we rock.

Tuesday, we went zip lining. This was my favorite part of the trip. It was awesome.

Gettin ready to go.

Hubby Wubby loves these bouncy bridges. He's totally like a little kid. He bounces like a crazy man and especially enjoyed waiting for others to come on the bridge. Unfortunately for him, I warned them all before we got to the bridge. lol

Monkey man

You think Hubby Wubby was impressive. Try taking pictures upside down a few thousand feet from the ground. Yep, awesome.

Hubby Wubby being a monkey again on the zip line.

Heading to the van to go to the waterhole.

Swimming in the waterhole.

There was a little zip line into it.

Tuesday evening we went to a Luau. It was interesting. Lots of Hawaiian dancing and some cool fire dancing.

Swimming in the ocean.

Relaxing by the pool.

We went tubing down a huge irrigation ditch. There were long tunnels that we went through. We had helmets with lights on them so we could see while going through. It was pretty interesting. They used to use the ditches to water the sugar cane fields, now they just use them for tours. So you can tell who took most of the pictures. =)

I don't know what's up with that picture in the background, but we didn't take the camera with us tubing because we didn't want to get it wet so we took these back at the tubing place. It is a good thing too that we didn't bring our camera because Hubby and I had quite the water fight. =) Good fun.

There's me!

This was not in my vision of the island at all. I kind of pictured it as a remote place with little stores. It was pretty small and not that many people live there, but there was a Walmart, Costco, McDonalds, KFC, and other stuff you see everywhere.

On the the way to the Secret Falls, although they didn't seem like such a secret to me. We had to cross the river here. There's Hubby Wubby in the red shorts.

Here is the trail we were walking on. There were lots and lots of roots.

Here I am at the waterfall. It was pretty and very refreshing aka cold.

Hubby Wubby at the waterfall.

I have never ever seen so many chickens just wherever in my whole life. There were chickens everywhere on the island. And those roosters were cockadoodledoing all the time.

So on the way back to the kayaks, I broke my foot. I hopped over one of those crazy roots on the trail and somehow caught the top of my foot and I went down. Here is Matthew going to get our kayak and bring it to me, since I couldn't walk across the river or at all.

kayaking

There is my broken foot. Only the broken part was swollen at this point.

Hubby Wubby kayaking

At the hospital. Now most of my foot is swollen. It was a nice hospital. They got us in really fast and were super friendly. We just missed our massages that we had scheduled for the afternoon, but we were able to reschedule for the next day.

Hubby Wubby waiting at the hospital.

We were going to go hiking on Saturday to see some of the amazing canyons in Kawai, but since I was crippled we decided to take a helicopter ride instead.

Hubby Wubby

Here is the volcano. Half of the crater has been eroded away over the years. It rains all the time here.

This was kind of scary. We were up above the mountains here and the helicopter guy took us straight down into this canyon. It was kind of crazy.

The Napali Coast

A waterfall

There were waterfalls all over the place.

Hubby Wubby and I in the helicopter.

Here is what we came home to... yep, I just about cried. In reference to an earlier post, I didn't mean it. I didn't miss the snow. I would be perfectly happy if the snow would be gone... atleast for a while. Please. It is slippery and I'm on crutches... Thanks.