Saturday, October 08, 2005

Ian watching the sunrise as we pull into Hilo, Hawaii.

Kari daydreamed @ 11:59 PM
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Starting another day....not quite sure why I'm holding on to Ian's nipple like that...LOL Funny what pictures show! Sorry babe!

Kari daydreamed @ 11:58 PM
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Look at this LAVA!!!! Ok well not really....Ian and I took this picture and told everyone back on the boat that "This is what we saw from the helicopter ride!! Real lava! It was crazy!" LOL They fell for it too...at first, then we told them the truth...it's actually a pic of the poster right out side the helicopter desk at the airport...but we did see real lava....red lava! It was awesome!

Kari daydreamed @ 11:57 PM
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This is as we just took off from the airport....you can see our boat at port....The Carnival one with the red tail.

Kari daydreamed @ 11:55 PM
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Waterfalls from the helicopter

Kari daydreamed @ 11:54 PM
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Almost to the top...

Kari daydreamed @ 11:53 PM
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Molten lava!!

Kari daydreamed @ 11:53 PM
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Lava flow into the ocean

Kari daydreamed @ 11:52 PM
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Look at how the lava took over that road!

Kari daydreamed @ 11:51 PM
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Last day as an unmarried couple! Best Friends Forever!

Kari daydreamed @ 11:50 PM
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Me and the girls (Mom, Aunt Deb and Mary) After dinner, at the piano bar.

Kari daydreamed @ 11:49 PM
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Kona, Hawaii

Friday, October 07, 2005

On this day we went snorkeling. It was a great time. We were out on the boat all day, eating, drinking, jumping from the top of the boat into the ocean, and going down the slide on the side of the boat and into the ocean. We saw some really cool fish...for some reason I am missing all of my pictures from this day!! My photo album goes right from the 6th to the 8th! What's up with that? I could have swore that I had pics of me and Ian and me and Mary when we were on the boat....maybe those were Mary's? Anyway, these are all the pictures we could find...

When we got off the boat there was someone there handing out keys to try at this jewelry store in town...after snorkeling we went into town real quick to check out some of the shops. We went to the jewelry store and you got to try your key in a treasure chest to see if it opened it. I tryed mine and....it worked!!! Once you open the chest you can only pick one pouch out and open it....I won a free oster. We open the oster to reveal a beatiful pearl...the begining of the end! Pearls can be addicting! On the day of the wedding "The girls" (Me, Mary, Mom, and Auntie Deb) went to Hilo Hatties and opened about 7 osters all together. Mary was a pro!! She kept getting the black pearls, which are the rarest, and twin pearls! Pink ones! Beautiful!

Anyway, check out the pick from Kona and stay tuned to see what Ian and I did on our last day as a "dating" couple.....

Kari daydreamed @ 10:10 PM
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The 6 of us....Welcome to Kona, Hawaii

Kari daydreamed @ 10:09 PM
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Everything is so beautiful!

Kari daydreamed @ 10:09 PM
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I look like a spider monkey! LOL Nice shot E!

Kari daydreamed @ 10:08 PM
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Scuba Ian...

Kari daydreamed @ 10:08 PM
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Sunset In Kona....

Kari daydreamed @ 10:07 PM
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My favorite day!

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Today was the day that we went to Kauai...our favorite island out of the group! I don't know if it was just because we got to see more of it than any other island or if it truely is the best island of the Hawaiian islands.

The 4 of us, (My brother, SIL, Ian ans I) had not planned any excursions for the day...we had wanted to rent 4 wheelers but the time would not permit it for the place that we had found. Then we wanted to do the Zip line but every place was booked! With nothing planned we got off the baot and headed into town. We checked out a couple of the shops and wandered around trying to decide what to do. Finally we decided to get a taxi. We all got in and the driver asked us where we wanted to go. "We don't know, just take us somewhere cool."
"Well what do you want to see?"
"What is there to see?"
"Everything."
"Ok, take us there."

Realizing that we weren't good at making decisions the driver started to take us somewhere. We toured almost the whole island! First stop was to some beautiful water falls. Then he drove us down by some beach where there are million dollar homes, and showed us some celebrity houses. Then we went up to the light house, which was absolutely beautiful! Amazing views from there.
Back to the car, we went to see Puff the Magic Dragon. It's an island that is shaped like a dragon...really! You can see it. It was too big to get a picture of but trust me it was cool!
then we were going to go swimming at the Hannelai Bay (Spelling?) (lyrics: Puff the magic dragon lived by the sea, and frollicked in the autumn mist on a lanmd called Hannelai...) Get it? This is where the song was based. So we got to the beach but it was starting to sprinkle so we decided to go get lunch instead, to wait it out..
We went to a cute little local place and then hit some shops near by afterward.

Back to the car...
After lunch we really didn't feel like swimming any more so we decided to do some more sight seeing. The driver told us about these caves that they have on the island and Ian said..."Hell yeah dude! I want to do that!" So off we went.

The first cave was a small dry cave that was very shallow. We didn't go back very far because it was very dark and we couldn't see where we were going.

Then the driver told us a story about this wet cave that has like a fresh water lake in it. If you swim back in the cave and under some rocks you will come to this room that is filled with air and there is a small whole in the bottom wall that lets the sunlight from the ocean in creating a blue light throughout the room.

So we got there...hiked up the side of the mountain to the top of the cave, then down into the cave to the lake. None of us were brave enough to go in...except for Ian. The water was FREEZING!!! He decided that he was going to try and find the blue room so he swam back into the cave, under the water...searching.

We were all on the land and I was freaking out! We had no way of knowing where he was or anything.

Finally, he emerges from the back of the cave. I have never seen him so white in my life! He was scared to death!

While searching for the blue room underwater, he came up for air and hit his head on the rocks! There was no air! No way up! He stuck his mouth up just above the water and was able to find a small air pocket to get quick breath...now in complete panic, trying to hold his breath as long as possible he had to find his way back!

He seriously almost died in that cave! We won't be doing that again anytime soon! Thank god that he had just got his scuba licence and was brushed up on some skills that he could use. If it were me, I definately, with out a doubt, would have drown.

So after the horrifying cave experience we headed back to the boat to get ready for dinner and were left with many exciting stories to tell....

Kari daydreamed @ 4:20 PM
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LOL I just realized that in all the other pics I was writing Kawaii! It's Kauai!! Dumbass!

Kari daydreamed @ 4:18 PM
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Amazing waterfalls...our first stop.

Kari daydreamed @ 4:17 PM
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Me in Kawaii...

Kari daydreamed @ 4:16 PM
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This is a historic light house that we toured..it was beautiful!

Kari daydreamed @ 4:16 PM
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What a beautiful island!

Kari daydreamed @ 4:15 PM
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UI want to put my house right up there! Perfect!

Kari daydreamed @ 4:15 PM
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Venturing in to cave #1

Kari daydreamed @ 4:14 PM
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This cave kept getting more and more shallow as you went in. It was so dark in there that we couldn't even see each other! And look how close we were! Thank god for the flash on Mary's camera!

Kari daydreamed @ 4:14 PM
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This is looking up from the base of the cave. If you look real closely you can see Mary standing at the top...

Kari daydreamed @ 4:12 PM
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