Something About Nothing...........#8

[minniejack]

DH is flying out today on Southwest--claims he was told that he was in A group--he's never flown it before and EVEN THOUGH I told him about the 24 hr window and printing out his pass, he doesn't and he's now in B group. Sucks for him

Found him on the computer one hr before we leave printing out his pass.... Men just do not listen to their wives.

 

[schumigirl]

MH........those pictures are FANTASTIC!!!!!!

Those Canyon pics are amazing. It looks so beautiful. All pics are stunning though. That is a place I wouldn`t mind seeing now.

Macraven .......still thinking of you and your family

 

[Tinker-tude]

MH, I feel a need to go to Hawaii....

Absolutely GORGEOUS pictures! Thanks for posting them for us.



Mac, still praying for you and your parents.

 

[keishashadow]

i came home for #15,000

 

[Mad Hattered]

i came home for #15,000

WOOHOO!! Congrats on the milestone!!

 

[Mad Hattered]

Continuing on with Hawaii....we only did one exciting thing on 5/1. It pretty much whooped our butts so we ended up chilling at the condo the rest of the day. This was the day we did the kayak and hike.

We arrived at the Wailua River at 7 am and drug our kayaks for what seemed a half mile

Then we began the 2 mile journey upstream...

We docked the kayaks at a sandbar and began our 2 mile hike...

3 hours after we began we had finally reached our destination...

They warn you on the islands that you shouldn't swim under waterfalls because of the threat of rocks being washed over the falls from above. Pfffft.....I'm in Hawaii and I am getting UNDER that thing!

OMG!!!! That water was some of the COLDEST I have ever been in but I took one for the team.

I stuck around under the falls for what seemed like an eternity while the friends snapped pics. I was probably only under them like 1 minute but when the water is THAT cold.....well....gotta go!!

We hung out there and ate a breakfast of fresh pineapple, bananas and macadamia nuts and then headed back out. BTW....at times it was POURING rain on us so that made that darn water seem even colder. So off we went...

Which way did we take coming in?

And that pretty much summed up that day. We stopped and got alcohol on the way home and lounged around the beach and pool at the condo the rest of the day.

Dana finally gets here tomorrow night...

 

[Metro West]

i came home for #15,000

 

[keishashadow]

morning all!

MH thanx for more great pics...the irony of standing in a waterfall & getting bopped in the bean w/a boulder is bizarre. I used to complete a mfg associations' OSHA reports for submission. you wouldn't believe the weird stuff that happens to some poor unfortunate souls.

 

[donaldduck352]

Is there anybody out there(pink floyd style)??
This thread is getting dust!!!

 

[minniejack]

now you all know how pricey gas is...DH was sitting in the passenger seat while I jumped out of the car and was talking to him about my missing AAA card. Next thing you know, the guy at the next pump finished his gas--probably only put in $5, then he pulled in front of my Honda Pilot, gas hog compared to his little car, and wanted to know if I had left my credit card at home because he was going to pay for my gas.

Wow. Some people are just nice. And my tank was almost $50. He'd have probably keeled over if I'd have said, Yes.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

Good Morning, Homies! Keeping Mac and family in our prayers, and still no decision on the summer vacation. Now I'm starting to wonder if there will be any rooms left by the time dh decides we're going, which I'm fairly certain is on the horizon...

Maria

 

[tink1957]

Good morning homies

Only 4 days left until our trip and I still haven't packed

At this time next week, I'll be at Universal

Hang in there Maria, you can always find rooms in Orlando.

MH, more awesome pics, it looks like the trip of a lifetime.

minniepoo, what a nice offer from that guy at the gas station, it's nice to hear that there are still good people in this world.

mac & family continue to be in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[keishashadow]

Is there anybody out there(pink floyd style)??
This thread is getting dust!!!

everybody's worrying re macs folks i think

mj just noticed ur siggie when did u switch to BW, thought u were doing Poly?

re somebody paying for gas & pink floyd reference, i say

when

pigs fly say hello to my little friend...plopper

 

[minniejack]

everybody's worrying re macs folks i think

mj just noticed ur siggie when did u switch to BW, thought u were doing Poly?

re somebody paying for gas & pink floyd reference, i say

when

pigs fly say hello to my little friend...plopper

we're actually going to yacht, but I liked that pic better so now I guess i'll look for a better trip counter that I like
changed this morning after looking and looking--i'll actually save about $190 too--more souvies

 

[keishashadow]

we're actually going to yacht, but I liked that pic better so now I guess i'll look for a better trip counter that I like
changed this morning after looking and looking--i'll actually save about $190 too--more souvies

im a siggie stalkercaught my eye

either is a boffo resort, im partial to BW (home)

mr & I were supposed to sneak down for 'romantic get-away' to see shuttle launch (oxymoron) end of july that's now pushed back to Sept. Doubtful we'll bother trying to swing it now. We went down last year same time period, it was as hot as ive seen in Orlando. Not sure how residents ever get used to it.

 

[Mad Hattered]

5/2 - Dana's flight arrived at 4:30 this afternoon so we had some time to kill. She totally wasn't in to the Jurassic Park stuff like I was so she was totally cool with us doing that without her. She thinks differently now after seeing the pics......tried to tell her.

Anyway....we started off this day with a tour at the one of the National Botanical Gardens. The garden we visited was named Allerton Gardens in the town of Po'ipu. Don't get me wrong....I'm not the kind of guy that goes on vacation and drools over a Botanical garden. This one had the scene from JP with the trees. Come to find out....there was some pretty cool stuff other than my sought-after scene...

This is the entrance. The Allerton brothers bought this land many moons ago and had every part of the garden imported. They graduated from the University of Illinois. Really? Who knew?

Now I will just shut up and post some pics...

Oh yeah...and these....

And who knew that a bamboo seed looks like this?

That big purple thing at the bottom of all banana plants is the male flower. We were advised that they cut that off so it doesn't starve the plant and thus produces more bananas. TR and I looked at each other immediately with a look of Uhhhhhhhhhh across our faces...

Funny story here....Ker finds this "seashell" below the deck of our condo. We are at least 25 yards offshore so I thought HUH? I figured it out during this tour. I had to explain it to her....go figure! And yes...this is a full size bench

I could post more...but let's get to other stuff. After the garden tour we headed up the road to Old Koloa Town for lunch.

We decided on TomKats where I enjoyed a tuna poke bowl...

and Saimin....a noodle dish cooked in fish broth that is unique to Hawaii

I ordered way too much food but ate all of the tuna and 3/4ths of the saimin. Wouldn't say I'd order the saimin again but to quote Ron Burgandy, "When in Rome...".

Time to start heading back towards the airport. Heading out of Koloa we drove thru the "Tree Tunnel" which consists of all Eucalyptus trees that were planted 50 years ago...

We also passed by some Cook Island Pines on the way back...

 

[Mad Hattered]

We had just enough time to stop by the tavern to slam a few brews while waiting for Dana to call to let us know she had landed. We were only a 5 minute drive away from the airport so we thought why not?

After picking her up we dashed off to a restaurant located at the Coconut Marketplace named Hukilau Lanai. I had done my math and knew that they served a food/wine tasting menu for $40 between the hours of 5 and 6.

The lighting really stunk in there so these don't look as good as they tasted!

Awesome food!! And YAY.....Dana was finally here!!

Afterwards we hit Dukes (located at the Marriott in Nawilliwili Harbor) for a few more drinks...

I'm pretty sure she wasn't the slightest bit interested when I mentioned that this was where they filmed the water slamming the harbor wall during the hurricane in Jurassic Park. Anyway...I got a cool shot that LOOKS like it did in the movie.

 

[Mad Hattered]

5/3 - Uhhhhhhggggg....we had to leave the condo at 4:30 am on Monday to get to Port Allen. We were going on a 7 hour catamaran tour up the Na Pali coast with Holoholo Charters. We had to be there at 6 am to take off. What an awesome day indeed!! This was Dana's choice of activity since she was only on Kauai for approx 2.5 days. So glad we did it!!

To set this up let me explain it. What you are going to be seeing is actually the backside of the Waimea Canyon that I posted earlier. This is where is transitions to the ocean. I was seriously waiting for Kong to step out of the fog at any given time...

Remember the Kalalau trail that I posted earlier (where they filmed Perfect Getaway)? That trial runs 11 miles along this coastline! Now....look for the two tiny white posts on the "beach". Those are twice as tall as me!!! That puts these in perspective. Nothing like being at the base of these 4,000 foot tall mountians!!

We snorkeled, had drinks, ate lunch and had a pretty much surreal time on the trip. It's amazing in person!! After the tour we were pretty whipped with it. We had traveled over 100 miles in the Pacific on a 65 foot catamaran all day. I felt that ocean for hours afterwards!!

Since we were on that part of the island we tried to take Dana up through the Waimea Canyon to witness what we had days earlier. Go figure....is was so foggy in the valley that you couldn't see a thing!!!!! We did sort of make it up to her on the way back to the condo though. We made a detour to show her some waterfalls. These are the Wailua Falls...

You may recognize them by this....."Boss, de plane...de plane!" Yep...those are the Fantasy Island Falls. And that about covers 5/3 in a nutshell. Tomorrow we have until 2 before our plane leaves for Maui. I'll be back with that one.

 

[minniejack]

Mh keep the pics coming--love them!! Don't forget to post your itinerary w/numbers when you're all done.

 

[Mad Hattered]

Mh keep the pics coming--love them!! Don't forget to post your itinerary w/numbers when you're all done.

Well....OK since you asked. But honestly....I will post the link to my guidebooks when I'm finished. That is where I found most of my information. I did 99% of the JP on my own but would be glad to tell anyone how to get where I did!

I'm still up so why not go ahead and finish the next day.......we prepared to check out at 11 am so we started off our last day accordingly...

Today's quest was to show Dana the turbo tour of the North coast that ends at the Na Pali coast. Soooo.....off we went

TR nicknamed these trees "DooZZledorf trees" on the first day of our trip. It stuck for the rest of the time. I have no idea what they're really called. They thought my name for the tree was too long....Dollar General Christmas Tree tree

Our next stop was the Kilauea Lighthouse....we 3 had been there earlier, but with Dana today, it was much more beautiful weather...

Our next stop was Anahola Beach. And yes...these are our actual footprints. **** happens when you start drinking at 9. Sometimes it's good to be passengers in the backseat of the 4WD....

Working our way to Hanalei

The only major highway on this side of the island pretty much ends with not one, but two one lane bridges in a row. It's customary for 5 - 7 cars to pass at a time. Yeah.....good luck with that

When we hit the end of the road we turned around and started making our way towards the airport. We were pretty much starving at this point but I had a plan. Research is really cool.....just sayin'. At the base of Kong mountain was a cool little burger joint...

Just chillin' and waitin' on our order

Dana and I ordered the Local Boy and Local Girl (when in Rome...)

A little closer look

The thing about Kauai that was most weird....trying to finish your meal while fighting off a couple of cockZZ. I have never seen so many roaming chickens in my life...anywhere!

But yeah.....we do end up in Maui today....