Hawaii-Earth Day

For Earth Day yesterday we headed up to Monoa Falls--complete with rainforest and bamboo forest. The hike was amazingly beautiful, probably some of the most beautiful I've ever seen. I took a picture about every ten steps (and we walked 12,039) so I'll just put up a few. We walked about 5 miles we think since we were following some random trail after we saw the falls which we didn't know the length of. Several rain showers hit us...one was pretty big at the first so we were soaked most of the hike, but it was warm and humid any way.






After hiking about 2 hours we turned around and on the way down finally saw 2 other humans actually enjoying the mountain. They say there were swimming holes at the top, but we didn't make it to them before coming down...we think it would have been another mile or so, but we didn't know at the time if we would just keep going up forever. This should definitely be the popular hike in Oahu...it was gorgeous.







Then we headed over to the beach house which is so cute and fun...and about a 90 second walk from the beach. The water is really pretty over here on the Windward side of the island, tons less people, and a lot more relaxing feel than Waikiki. We spent the afternoon on the beach relaxing, reading, trying out our new snorkle gear (it was $2 cheaper to just buy the stuff rather than rent it), boogie boarding, getting rained on, and eating at an overpriced Italian restaurant. We did have some yummy dark chocolate mint ice cream though. Mmm.





**all these photos were taken by us. It seriously was that beautiful that a regular old camera with an amateur photographer could capture that much beauty...imagine if I was a professional.