Hawaii

 Jim and I spent last week in Hawaii. It was fabulous! We went met up with our great friends the Tripps- George and Kimberli who are living on O'ahu at their house. Then the four of us went to Maui. Thanks to all who watched all of our kids. While we were there we took a boat over to Lana'i. The water is such an incredible blue color, the pictures don't do it justice. We saw dolphins ( these first two pictures) and whales.

 Whales

 The aqua blue you see in this picture is the white underside of the whale. It was pretty cool to have them come that close to our boats. While we were on that island we did snuba (which is a cross between snorkling and scuba diving, there is a tube floating above you with your oxygen tank and you still can be down at the bottom) Jim loved it. It was great! 

 We went on the zig-zag road to Hana, it t was beautiful. It was a rainy day but that made for waterfalls at nearly every turn (almost 600). We stopped at a few and checked out different beaches. This one on top is a black sand beach, we also went to a red sand on as well.

 Jim suprised and swooped me down! (my hat landed in the mud)

 Hiked up to this 400 ft waterfall through a baboo forest, pretty cool.

 We found great spots to snorkle. I liked the turtles we saw about 7 throughout the trip.

 George tried forever to get the octopus to come out of the coral, to bad I missed it when he got inked.