Oh, and this..

This is "Spouting Horn". A neat little spot where the waves break onto an old lava flow, and the water shoots up through a lava tube, and makes a weird sound... looks like a geyser (more pics of it below)

I know they're over-due...

Alright, well, Here are a few more pics from Hawaii. And yes, our last day in Oahu, we did spot another panda!



Then we went to the Island of Kaua'i. It's the oldest of the islands, and is absolutely gorgeous.

This is me looking good in my new snorkel gear, which thankfully, doesn't block the six pack. We tried to Snorkel, as this beach on the north end of the island has a reef just off-shore, but the rip tide was too intense for the girls... but we had fun any way


This is the beach at the resort we stayed at in Kaua'i, which was so much less touristy than Oahu.


Tons of feral Roosters on Kaua'i. I guess sometime 100 and some odd years, a hurricane hit the island, and ripped through a chicken farm, and then the roosters thrived due to the complete lack of natural predators. The were absolutely everywhere, but they were cool. Waking up in the morning to "Cock-a-doodle-doooo!" every morning wasn't what you think of when you think "tropical paradise", but it was oddly fitting:

So you wanted to see the guns?

You want some of this??


The real guns at Pearl Harbor:


Alright, so it's been a few days, we've been busy! That, and the broadband connection at this hotel is too damn slow, takes like 5 minutes per picture, so, I'm just going to start uploading a bunch, and fill in the captions yourself:

PANDA WATCH! Day 2

The mood is tense here, we tried to get an interview, but they said "No! He's a giant panda, and he will literally eat your face off!":



Well anyways, Day 2 kicked ass. We pretty much kicked back on the beach all day. Rather Surprisingly, neither Dina nor I got a sunburn, due to the SPF 5000 we were wearing, but we did manage a little color.



As you can see below "getting some color" is the only thing that could happen to our skin:



The water is super clear, and probably high 70's to low 80's, so it's no problem jumping right in. Of course, I'm basing that "clear" observation on a comparison with Jersey Shore water, which sadly, aint that blue or clear. Some local girl at Burberry's was saying that "This beach isn't all that great compared to *this beach and that beach on this and that side of the island*"... you gotta love when locals put you down, but I understand that, I've put many a NYC tourist down myself. She did say that Kauai(sp?) is gorgeous, and that's where we're going later this week, so that's good.

As luck would have it, it's the 60th anniversary of the USAF, and they celebrated by having the Thunderbirds give an airshow over the beach. So we enjoyed watching some F-16's (maybe 18's?) doing loops, spins, formations, dives, and close fly by's. I thought it was a nice little added bonus to the day. I wish I'd gotten some good pics of it, butit was impossible to get a picture, they were too damn fast. Most of my attempts resulted in blurry pictures of clouds.

I did get one picture though, see if you can find waldo in this picture, first person to find it wins a beer:


So we enjoyed the airshow while having lunch at our hotels beach bar, and drinking some excellent bloody mary's. After that we walked around to some shops for a while, napped, then went out to dinner. We had an excellent meal on the beach lit by tiki torches. I appearantly have some pretty scary looking hands if the perspective in this photo is at all accurate, has anyone ever noticed?(the eyes are bloodshot from salt water, don't get any ideas):

We Made It!!!

Aloha!!

So After a good long 10 and half hour flight from Newark to Honolulu... we're here! We figured out that 8 hours is about as long as we can hack it on a flight without starting to go nuts, so we're not looking forward to the flight back, which will be a tad longer. I think a benadryl a few stiff drinks to start of the next flight are in order.

So anyways, we had a couple more hours to go to get our luggage, make it to Waikiki, to our hotel, which is great. The view from our room is gorgeous:


We were pretty tired though, so we just made it out to a little bar on the beach and had a snack and a drink, and called it a night. Afterall, our bodies were still at 3AM EDT.

Despite the fact that it's a bit cloudy here this morning the weather is going to be gorgeous the whole time, and all we plan on doing today is becoming permanent fixtures on the beach. We'll post more and better pics later.

Waikiki babywontyalaime

Dina and Jonathan are headed to Hawaii this week... stay tuned for pics and rants.