hawaii: kauai

weston took all the photos.  most will be from his iphone, but there are some from an actual camera ;)

hope you don't mind the commentary!

 

 boarding in SLC

in flight travel

 the in-headrest monitor (weston watched the map, i watched just go with it)

 we landed in honolulu for a couple hours, ate lunch in the airport, saw a smidge of oahu ;)

weston spent most of his time doing this,

and this,

and this,
 
and some more of this.

we boarded our next plane and left oahu

goodbye oahu, where i have somewhat of a small family history...

more airplane window shots... get ready there will be a few of these throughout

lush, green kauai

runway

runway


we got our rentals and made our way to the resort

 

kauai marriot

 resort beach - reminds me of mission bay a bit

lobby coy - swimming rats as weston likes to think of them

 resort chickens - this guy's color was gorgeous!


every day was spent like this - heaven, i tell you!


on our second or third day, we all hopped in the cars and took a drive around our half of the island down to princeville, taking in the gorgeous views and lush green.
the variety is unbelievable!

 one of the many one-way bridges


 we were told (kurt) this is the beach where the girl lost her arm in the shark attack.
waimea i believe?

weston and his co-workers are all on instagram and it was a race this afternoon to see, not only who could instagram each stop first,
but to see who could come up with the most original shots.
i might be biased, but i like to think my husband won every time ;)

 a cave on the way into princeville

 it was so deep and so tall as you can see from the people in the last shot

 more scenery
 
 hawaiian palms

we had dinner on our way back at dolphin.  weston thought he was funny (every time) when he joked about ordering the dolphin, he couldn't wait to try the dolphin, etc.
 the view just outside dolphin's doors

 
plumerias

we ate a few times at duke's at the resort.  we tried the hula pie, but my favorite thing to order was the lava flow - delish and i still miss them!

 
lunch at duke's



weston and i took a car one of the last afternoon's in kauai and drove around the island for a bit.

he photographed everything in sight until it started raining.

 

 isn't kauai so gorgeous?

 waterfall

 more water - look at all those shades of green!

 our drive back.  when we got there, it had mostly let up but we ran out to the beach and swam with the rain as long as it lasted.

 on our way to dinner

 last afternoon in kauai before flying out

 i miss being there - definitely my favorite island so far!

 i never get tired of the ocean, do you?

more palms

my hair looked like this for the majority of the trip, but whatever works, right?

leaving kauai behind... it was magical.  it really was...

on our way to the big island to see what kona has to offer!!!