Aloha From Hawaii

I can't believe the week has gone by so fast and we fly home tonight. Picture a teardrop landing on my keyboard... sigh.  We did have some rain this week but nothing like last year.  Our biggest downpour actually came at night when we were sleeping and soaked the carpet in our condo (and the bottom of my suitcase).

As for activities this week... let's see... We went snorkeling and saw lots of different kinds of fish as well as an eel (he was pretty small), a manta ray, a mermaid and a giant sea turtle.  I saw the sea turtle briefly before he took off.  Boy those guys can swim fast!!! We tried to keep up to no avail!

When we came out of the water from snorkeling we were met by these two characters... one of which was resting on my shoe.  Would you want to reach out and get it???? And by resting I mean laying completely on it!!! I gave Brett the task of retrieving it.  

We also enjoyed some sunsets and watched another turtle swimming in the bay.  

There was a debate at first as to whether it was a dolphin, a seal or something else but we realized it was a turtle.  This pic makes it look more like the Loch Ness Monster because he wouldn't come any closer

Kipu Waterfall was really pretty and not too hard to get to.  Brett was the only one who fell down.. oh wait.. that's not true, my feet slipped off one of the rocks and I got wet up to my capris. never mind.  

We ate lots and lots and lots of great food at JJ's, the Marriot, TC's, a new Mexican restaurant (can't remember the name) but I'll be eating the Mexican leftovers for lunch today.  

Waimea Canyon was cloudy AGAIN this year.  In fact it was cloudier this year than last!!!

This time we went to Smith's Tropical Paradise with lots of plants, flowers, ponds and apparently.... birds!!!

I don't have pictures of me relaxing by the pool, sitting in the hot tub, walking on the beach, reading my latest book (Dede would hate the book I'm sure.. hahaha but I'm liking it) oh and working on my lesson for Sunday but who wants a picture of that?  :P  I do have Brett sleeping on the beach although I think he looks dead...

Thanks to everyone for making this trip possible and by that I'm not referring to Delta Airlines and Best Western... I'm talking to friends and family who took our kids so we could be here on beautiful Kauai.  Thank you soooooooooo much.  Hope they have been good enough that you don't want to kill us when we get home .