The Last of HAWAII!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! We certainly enjoyed ours. Here is the last of the Hawaii pictures. These are more snapshots than photography, but I love them none the less! Coming soon....SNOW pictures :)!! Ugh!

Our first day on Maui was an adventure. The boys decided to leave us and go fishing on the open sea, so us girls decided to go see "Jaws" which is a famous surf spot. Come to find out it is VERY difficult to find and get to. We broke our rental car in by doing some major off roading until we had to ditch the car and hike down to the spot which turned out to be a two-three mile hike. Luckily some locals gave us a ride in the back of their dirty old "Maui Cruiser" (which basically means, a vehicle that could be abandoned at any moment). Niki was nice enough to clean out the back of our new friends truck with her body :). She is such a giver :)!!


We decided to go on a zip line tour during our stay. This smile is excitement and fear wrapped into one.



I love this picture of Niki, she is just so awesome. Her and I have been through a lot, she is the only female yet to accompany me on an Alaska adventure, and she is returning this summer. Her husband Chad goes with us every year. We joke that we can never take a vacation without Chad tagging a long :)!!


This is the first Zip course. It was the "warm up" or baby zip line to get us used to the feel of it. I never got a shot of the MAMA zip, which was pretty fun!


So this has to be the highlight of our trip. Earlier in the week we went on a snorkeling tour on a chartered boat which took us to two dive spots. We saw some amazing reefs and beautiful fish, but no turtles. We were a little disappointed about that, so Josh and Catherine, our local guides took us on our very own PRIVATE excursion to turtle town. Simply amazing! We swam with about four turtle, and they are HUGE. They swim right up next to you and would sometimes float on the surface while we all would swim around it. It was so fabulous I can't even describe it.






Josh and Catherine also helped us try out the long boards and surfing. It is a lot harder than it looks, but so much fun. I can't wait to try it again someday.

Chad and Niki

Mr. B - Psst. Mr. B you are supposed to stand up on the board :). He had a little difficulty, but in his defense he is a giant so his center of gravity is about two feet higher than the rest of us :)!!


Thank you again Josh and Catherine, our Maui vacation was AWESOME, and we have you to thank for it!!! We love you guys, and will be visiting you again soon!! Aloha!!