Hawaiiiiiii Part Deux

Day 4:

Today we traveled to the city of Hilo on "The Big Island" where we went to see a volcano and waterfalls.

First, we started off taking a helicopter ride to see a couple of waterfalls, it was kinda crappy because it just seemed like a river since we were soo high up. I didn't even know what I was looking at at first. lol. Then we passed by an active volcano, by active I mean, it still erupts from time to time, most recently was a few weeks ago..?, it wasn't erupting as we were there. We also go to see the area where the lava flow went, basically wiping out everything in its path. As it pours into the water it actually increases the land, it's added 150 acres to the island since... i dunno when. It was cool to see, it would have been better tho if I wasn't for the motion sickness :( basically from the start as well, it sucked. Note to self: stay away from helicopter rides and paddle boats.

Secondly, we rented a car, stopped off to get Pho and then to the Volcano National Park. At the park, you are able to see different things like a steam vent (exactly what it sounds like lol), see the volcano the erupted on march 6 (eva's birthday), as it was still steaming, and walk in a lava tube. The lava tube was cool, it was a tube the lava used to flow in a long time ago, it was wet and kinda creepy, it had lights so it wasn't too bad. It was broken into two parts, one with lights and one without. I would love to say that we went in both parts, but I didn't have a change of underwear with me. There were other things to do at the park such as walking on dried lava but parts of the park was closed, it sucked, but whatever.

Lastly, we traveled to a waterfall. There were several on the island but one fit our time frame so we went to it. It was a crappy one. There were no hot girls swimming underneath it, damn you hollywood movies and portraying waterfalls that way. The best part of that area was a forest that had one tree (shown below) that created/link to a large portion of all the trees. The pic is just the base of the tree. It was so big that you were able to climb it. There were a bunch of people climbing it and a couple must have been close to 30-40 ft up, I was scared for them.




Day 5:

The morning brought us to a large marketplace/flea market at the Aloha stadium. It had vendors lined up in the parking lot of the stadium making a circle. I was a typical marketplace, busy and repetitive (and freaken hot!). We bought some things there, I bought a few shirts that all the filipinos would enjoy.



Eva's dad ran into a friend that is a vendor there, so it was like a reunion. We ended up going to dinner with them. Kya liked using chopsticks for her noodles (below)



After the marketplace and chicken nuggets for lunch (20 for $4.99), the in-laws were nice enough to watch Kya as we went to the beach. It was nice to get a way for a little bit, just the two of us, and just chill... just chill for minute... (shout out to Saint Kris for making his second radio appearance, sorry we couldn't listen to it live).





It was pretty busy, lots of ppl out on the beach, play beach vball, bbq-ing, surfing, etc,. I would of loved to tried surfing, I didn't want to go by myself though....

Day 6:

A trip to Pearl Harbor. Today we visited the site of the famous Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. Now, it's built into a tourist attraction/memorial so there's just a lot of plaques and poster thingys to look at unless you pay extra to go into a submarine and do other things. Eva and fam already did those things, I didn't really need to so we walked around. There was a part of a sub that you could go in, and turrets that you could sit in tho. I did get a penny stamped with a Pearl Harbor logo from one of those machines.... and I used a canadian penny lol. suckers!



Dim sum time and bubble tea in Chinatown for lunch. The bubble tea was awesome, large cup only $3.50 and they used real fruit, as oppose to flavouring.

After lunch, another beach day! it was a shortened one tho, but still much appreciated. I cannot stress how much Ky Bear loves the water. She always starts off being shy and scared of it but ends up loving it and not wanted to go out. We go some cute pics of her on the camera but will upload on the computer once we get home.

I definately recommend Hawaii to those who can make it here. It is more than worth it over here. The place is amazing, the people are so friendly, the whole atmosphere is upbeat and exciting. I'm glad that we picked hawaii as the place for one of our last vacations for a while. To be honest, I didn't know how excited I should have been before coming here, but now that I'm here, I'm excited for the next time I'm coming back, Ballzout Reunion baby! ;) This is one place I could now cross off my list of must-see places, now only Vegas, LA/Hollywood, Europe (less chance of going, but still wouldn't mind), and Philippines/Asia.

I'm glad to be with someone that loves to live life the way I do, taking opportunities to try new things and go to new places without worries. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't be able to experience what I have in the last 10 years, Thanks baby! Love you lots! and Ky Bear is so freaken awesome.