September 29, 2005

• honeymoon highlights
  
  MAUI

  • staying at a funky retro/sixties ghetto condo and listening to the incessant dog barking next door
  • watching the u.s. open and agassi’s quarter and semi-final games
  • lahaina (HUGE banyan tree in front of old courthouse)
  • pat driving scary one lane roads and looking at the water below! 
  • stopping at julia’s world famous banana bread stand (YUMMY!)
  • driving to the summit of haleakela  
  • silverswords 
    
  • going snorkeling at molokini/turtle town
  • eating at buzz’s wharf

  
  BIG ISLAND
  

  • HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
  • having a national parks pass rocks
  • aa
  • pahoehoe
  • staying in volcano, HI (like 5 MINUTES away from the park)
  • rain, rain and more rain
  • banyan drive in hilo
  • lyman museum with an AWESOME mineral collection that had a phallic malachite specimen (sorry no pictures)
  • steam vents
  • halemaumau and inhaling sulphur fumes
  • hiking kilauea iki
  • thurston lava tube
  • hiking on basalt at night
  • seeing the lava flow glow at night (will post a pix later… pat has WAAAAAAAAY better ones of this…)
  • nene (hawaii’s state bird)
  • driving to kailua-kona
  • stopping at south point (the southernmost place in the U.S.)
  • black sand beach and seeing turtles
  • mauna loa macadamia nut factory and good deals on gifts
  • hilo hattie last minute shopping and free gifts (with expensive purchase)
  • 9 mosquito bites at rainbow falls
  • pe’e pe’e falls and boiling pots (ran away from the mosquitos)
  • relaxing…and watching TLC all day
  • seeing p. diddy or whatever you call him now on martha stewart
  • seeing rainbows almost every day and rays of light shining through the clouds
  • petroglyphs
  • tree molds
  • hiking puu huluhulu and seeing pu’u o’o in the distance smoking away…

  
  

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