If you are curious and would like to see where we spent our honeymoon you can click here.

We had a wonderful time staying on the North shore of Kauai. We rented a cottage that was surrounded by bananas, mangos and other tropical fruit trees. The cottage had windows for walls and no curtains; it felt like freedom to wake up to the crowing of a wild rooster, to open our eyes to blue skies and tall green trees that were as tall as a two story house, to eat banana pancakes for breakfast fresh from the trees, to shower outdoors under hot water that massaged along with the cold rain falling on the rocks that we stood on. The bathtub was also outdoors surrounded by red ginger and trees. It was paradise.




Gary was in heaven, but then he almost died. We hiked about four miles into NaPali to get to this waterfall. About a week before we came it started to rain hard and it loosened some of the rocks. Signs were put up to not go past a certain point, not allowing people to go to the waterfall dropping from the top of the cliff. We heard from others to ignore the signs because it was worth it, so we did. Gary had just started to get in the water and I was taking pictures when we noticed some rocks falling from the sides. We decided to make it a quick swim, but then a rock fell from the top and landed three feet from Gary! I have never been so scared in my entire life. We quickly packed up as I tried not to scream at the other rocks falling around us.



A little farther down the waterfall there is a smaller one. Six feet compared to 600. Gary decided he would at least wade around this one. (Notice the green moss in the picture.) He took a step, and fell on his back, sliding down the slope on his back like he was break-dancing; he barely missed splitting open his head on the sharp end of a rock. This was too much for me to see him almost injured twice in two minutes, so we left. Gary did end up with a nice scrath and bruise on his back.


The hike along Napali was beautiful, a true rainforest. The dirt is really that red, and yes it stains; an example of how powerful the stuff is: the Red Dirt Shirt company uses one bucket of dirt to dye 500 shirts. The hike was hot, muddy, involved minor rock climbing, and the real adventure began when it got dark and we hiked the last hour in the dark praying we would not step two feet the wrong way and fall off the cliff. When we made it back, amazed we did not lose the trail, we jumped up and down and celebrated by taking a shower.



Liz standing with a peacock at the Luau we went to. They can't see behind when their feathers are out. There were both male and female peacocks there; the males tried very hard to impress the females.

Mr. Blue meets Mr. Blue: Gary and a peacock.



CHEERS to a vacation from wedding planning, work and school!



Our first day on Kauai we went to Waimea Canyon (?), the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. It was beautiful! Not very green in all spots, but in one section of the canyon is the wettest spot on the earth. We could not really see it because there was a huge rain cloud over it.



The water was warm and clear, perfect for snorkeling. There are no photos but we had a great time swimming with schools of yellow butterfly fish and green sea turtles.



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