A Barf Story

Woke up at 3:00 am....couldn't sleep. Wasn't feeling well. Drank some V8 and ate a nectarine while watching "Pushing Daisies" and knitting. Promptly after, barfed everything into the bathroom sink.....couldn't quite make it to the toilet. My loud/violent retching woke my poor husband. Uunfortunately, as it turns out, thrown up nectarines and V8 don't drain down bathroom sinks very well. Fortunately, I have the most amazing husband in the world who donned rubber gloves and scooped out said contents not draining in sink.

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Our campsite

The black sand beach from the volcanic rock.

 

I love these danger signs.

For the last few days of our trip we stayed in a hotel on the other side of the island. We got upgraded to this cool studio gigantic room.......we love priceline!

This is the view from our hotel balcony.

 

We spent our evening playing with the camera....should would have been nice to have a tripod. Not bad though for only steading it with my knee!

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One of our mini hikes on "The Road to Hana"

 

This is a rainbow Eucalyptus tree. Isn't that so cool?

 

This was one of my favorite little waterfalls we swam in.

 

Jon testing out his pillow for the night.

 

We saw so many amazing rainbows. Pictures couldn't capture how amazing they were.

 

There are some pools down there below that Jon swan in....well jumped off a gigantic rock....which I did not approve of. 

We went on a hike up to this big waterfall. On the way up there were a bunch of waterfalls and places to swim. That's the best kind of hiking.

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A big part of the hike was through a bamboo forest. It was sooooo rad! When the wind blew they would rattle together.  I could have stayed in there all day.

 

Finally at the top. Your not supposed to get too close to the waterfall though because big rocks often tumble down......I guess that could be dangerous. 

 

That's me on that bridge over there.

 

I stole this pose from Troll 2.

Maui Part III

The second place we camped  was on the other side of the island at Kipahulu. Our camp site was right next to the ocean and the view constantly amazed me.

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If that sign doesn't scare you away I don't know what would. The yellow lettering that Jon is partley covering up says..."swimmers and those swept off the rocks by waves have died in the deep water below these rocky cliffs."

 

We basically took a whole day driving to this camping spot. The drive is called "The Road to Hana". There were lots of little stops along the way where we swam in water falls and did little hikes. The road follows the coast and is very windey....good thing I was driving.

Maui Part II

At five in the morning we headed up the big volcano, Haleakala to watch the sunrise. Absolutely breath taking!

We were lucky that we camped so close to the top because there were a bunch of tour groups that left their hotels at 1:00 am.....ha ha ha...suckers.

This is a look inside the crater.

 

Once the sun came all the way up we had a great view of the west side of the island.