Thursday, November 02, 2006

Honeymoon part 1

One word - paradise. Hawaii is true paradise.


There is so much to share about our trip to Hawaii that I'm going to have to spilt it up. So here is my first pass. We left for Kauai on the Monday after the wedding. I couldn't believe how giddy we both were for getting very little sleep over the past week, plus the fact that we were looking forward to an eleven hour plane trip.

Once on the Kauai, we quickly realized that we were in paradise. The Grand Hyatt in Poipu was so beautiful and amazing. We were upgraded to an Ocean View Suite. Honestly, the room was bigger than our townhouse. I could get used to this 'newlywed' thing. Our first night we had a great dinner (more on the food later) and hit the hay. Kauai is seven hours (before the day light saving time) behind Baltimore. The next day, we relaxed at the pool, actually the lagoon. Yeah the resort had a pool and a lagoon, with a real sand beach. In three short days in Kauai, we managed to do some serious pool time, a helicopter ride and an atv tour. The atv was my favorite.

On Thursday we head over to Maui, about a forty minute airplane ride away. Maui is beautiful and a very popular place to go. While Kauai was much more relaxing, Maui was exciting and a happening place to be. After a short drive along the southern coast of the island, we arrive at our hotel. It was beautiful, but didn't quite live up to our expectations after staying at the Grand Hyatt. We did have an amazing view of the ocean from our room though. Views like these can make you want to stay on the island for ever.

Micah and I didn't do as much as we would have liked. The pool and sunshine was calling. We did do the luau at the hotel. Very fun and a little chessey, but very Hawaii all the same. The one adventurous thing we did do was ride bikes done an inactive volocano. Yup! It was a lot of fun and only about 100 yards of pedaling. Micah's kind of bike ride. Oh yeah - we did attempt snorkling on our own, but Micah had a little accident and lost his glasses in the ocean. No, I can not make this shit up. Who wears there glasses in the ocean?? Several thousand miles away from home and we had to go to Lens Crafters to get new glasses.

Other than that small snafu, we had a great time and are already thinking about our next trip back. (of course that will probably be our 25th anniversary.)

1 comment:

Cyndi said...

Thanks so much for sharing all your pics, you got some really great ones. It looks like so much fun! Now you are going to sit right down and scrapbook them all right?? Just kidding, I haven't even done my own honeymoon yet and it's been ten years!