Day 8 - Diamond Head & Waikiki Beach

Their last full day here, we started off the day right by climbing Diamond Head

Wow, look what we saw when we got to the top - a rainbow, actually it was a double!
After the climb, we had lunch at Duke's, always a fun lunch spot
Our view at the beach, the cute German brothers, along with Diamond Head. Sorry, no picture of the topless woman! But we should have taken pictures of the men's reactions!

The Royal Hawaiian Hotel

No pictures from Saturday, they are on Jenéll's camera, will add them later. Oh, we had such a wonderful time!!

Day 7 ~ North Shore

Thursday we went to the North Shore, here's one of our stops at Kualoa Park

Chinaman's Hat, the island offshore from Kualoa Park
La'ie Point - a tsunami punched this hole through this small island in 1946
Onolicious lunch - garlic shrimp at Giovanni's Shrimp Truck
Sunset Beach

Banzai Pipeline - was awesome! Less sun, but bigger waves!Brutus, the honu (sea turtle) waves at us

Must get a shave ice at Hale'iwa. Our favorite is Aoki's. Right outside Aoki's they were cooking huli huli chicken (Hawaiian bbq) so we picked one up for dinner.

Our sunset drive back from North Shore

Day 6 - the beach!

We went to a beach I'd never been to before, at Ka'ena Point State Park, the last beach you can drive to on the west coast. When we arrived, there were only 3 other people there. We loved having the place practically to ourselves!

After the beach we drove through the Wai'anae Mountain Range to the Dole Plantation. Here me and Lauren at an overlook of the Wai'anaes.Fun time always at Dole. The Dole Whip was a huge hit!
This tree is called an Eucalyptus Rainbow, and behind it - a rainbow - way cool!!

Beautiful scene as we're driving out of Dole ~

Day 5 - Makapu'u

Monday we walked up the Makapu'u Trail, leading to a view overlooking the lighthouse and Sandy Beach.
Halfway up our walk, it started to rain on us (hard by Hawaii standards) and we got drenched! Once it quit raining, we were quickly dried by the wind. Below we are taking shelter in the pencil cactus grove. (smart Lauren wore a hat!)

On the way back home Jenéll shot this picture through the car, you can see all the waterfalls that are there only when it's rained a lot. These are the Ko'olau Mountains where this island gets the most rain, especially lately. You are not allowed to stop on this road to take pictures.

Day 3 & 4

Day 3 Lauren and Jenéll went to the Swap Meet, they didn't take the camera and didn't need it except for when the Chinese Lions arrived, bringing good luck for the new year. The rest of the day, we caught up on each other, rested and watched the Super Bowl.

Day 4 Lauren and Jenéll went to Pearl Harbor. After picking them up, we drove up to the top of our road to Keaiwa Heiau State Park.

Below are just 3 of the wild pigs we sawJenéll at the top of Tantalus Road. From here we went to a luau at the Hale Koa. It was a great day!

Day 2

Day 2 we did a little driving tour along the east coast, stopping for photo-ops along the way. Here we are at Hanauma Bay. This is Halona Blowhole, I've never seen it put on such a show!

Lauren at Bellows Beach

Jenell & Lauren are here!

Lauren and Jenell arrived Friday! That evening we went to Waikiki to the Hale Koa, watched the sunset and had dinner. Is so much fun being with my pals!