Saturday, November 29, 2008

Thanksgiving!


Mike and I with the turkey


The dogs... life's so hard for them





I hope everyone had a great thanksgiving..our family had a great one! We had it our house this year with everyone coming over. My parents came over from SC, Mike's dad Andy and his two brothers Robert and Joe and plus Suzie. We had lots of food, took the family picture for the card, and just spent time with each other. This was also Suzie's last couple of days with us. She is moving to South Carolina to live with the parentals. I will miss her very much but she will have a blast out there. The dogs miss her already :) and no Suzie I am not shipping Sawyer to Charlotte!

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Weekend Fun


Kim and I


Katherine and I


This past weekend Mike and I went up to Scottsdale to meet up with some old friends and old roommates. These girls were the first roommates I ever had. We all met at ASU in the dorms. Katherine and I shared a room for 2 years(half a year in the dorm and 1 1/2 in the apartment we shared with Lindsey and Susan) We met up for Kim's birthday at Old Town Tortilla Factory and then went to Saddle Ranch for some good people watching! We had alot of fun talking about the old times from the dorm and from the apartment. Sure miss you girls...love ya lots

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Kauai


pre dirtiness


in the buggy


during our ride relaxing....we are really muddy


at jurassic park


biggest mud puddle ever

Our last stop on our cruise was Kauai. We were there for a day and a half. The only excursion we did there was the Mudbugs....which was the best excursion. We had so much fun and you can tell by the pictures. We got soooo dirty! We went all through the back fields of Kauai where a lot of movies are filmed like many scenes from Jurassic Park, 6 days and 7 nights, Indiana Jones to name a few. We were out there for about 4 hours and saw some great landscape. We took so many pictures but could onlu post a few. Enjoy and that concludes of honeymoon pictures.

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Kona


The start and finish for the Ironman swim portion


Beautiful Kona


On the Submarine


Parasailing



We got a chance to spend one day in Kona. This was one of my favorite stops on the trip. We missed Ironman by 2 days but we got to see people train for the swim portion. For our day in Kona we were mighty busy. We first did a submarine ride which was fun but we didn't really see anything exciting (we did see dolphins on the tethering boat on the way to the dock from the ship). Also some people were talking about seeing sharks earlier in the week but no such luck. We then went para sailing which was so much fun. It was both of our first times and we got to do it together. The weather and the view was awesome. We were up there for about 10 minutes 1200 feet up in the air. We had a blast. I wish we could have stayed longer in Kona since we missed so much more stuff. Its definitely on the list of go back places!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Maui


After our beach day at Wailea


In Lahaina


Under the cool tree




We got to spend 2 days in Maui. They were our relaxing days with no big excursions planned. The first day was a day at Wailea Beach which was just named best beach in the world a couple years ago. The second day was a trip to Lahaina which is a small town with lots of shops and historical monuments. One being the Banyan Tree which is the second largest in the world. It is all connected with each other which made some really cool pictures.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Hilo


At Volcanoes National Park


Before starting Devastation Trail


Cool Landscape during the trail that Mike took


Inside the Lava Tube


The view from our boat of the volcano(at night) going into the ocean which is making the Big Island bigger and bigger each day.

Our first stop on the Cruise was Hilo, which is on the big island of Hawaii. We got to tour Volcanoes National Park and see the crater of Kilauea which still smokes today, the hot steams, and the Thurston Lava Tube. We also got to tour the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Factory. I had never tried a macadamia nut before...they were mighty tasty with chocolate. At night after we set sail the boat took us up to where Mauna Loa is still active and could see the lava run into the ocean.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

North Shore






On Friday we went to the North Shore of Oahu. This is my favorite area on Oahu. Its so mellow and not busy up there. We went to Sunset Beach, the waves weren't that big which kind of sucked. Traveled to Turtle Bay to find sea turtles and we saw 3. I had never seen a sea turtle (sea world doesn't count) and they were pretty cool. Went to Surf n Sea to pick up some cool surf gear to wear back home. We had to hit up Matsumoto, which is famous for its shaved ice. yummy!