Awesome Vacation Day 4

Friday morning. Hawaiian sweet bread for breakfast. Strawberry-guava jam. Mmmmm. Friday we spent with our friends. First we drove north on Kamehameha Highway up to the Turtle Bay resort, where we stopped for the 10 minute tour. The resort is beautiful - the grounds, the building, the beach, and the wedding chapel. At least, the wedding chapel is beautiful as long as it has some serious air-conditioning. Otherwise it's just a fancy greenhouse. A fancy greenhouse with a beautiful view out over the water. No, we didn't see any turtles.

Then we hopped back in the car and drove to Sunset Beach, where we got all ready for some swimming and snorkeling. Which we did - at Shark's Cove.


My one half-regret is that we didn't bring a waterproof camera. But, on the other hand, I didn't spend my time worrying about taking pictures. Instead we just swam with tons of incredible bright, dark, pale, pink, striped, dotted, skinny, fat, slow, fast fish. We went out into the cove and back in twice - the second time the waves picked up a bit, so it made the path back through the rocks a little more adventurous.

We had lunch at Hale'iwa Beach Park, and then we went into Hale'iwa, which is a fairly touristy town. Lots of shops and some restaurants and stuff like that. The girls went shopping while the men waited in line for shave ice. Dan and I shared a raspberry rootbeer chocolate shave ice. Tastes fantastic. Then we headed out to the Dole Pineapple plantation to see how pineapples grow and to go through the incredibly huge maze. Even with a map of the maze, it still took us an hour to make it through!


Then we were off to Costco in Mililani for a pizza dinner. After that we did a bit of souvenir shopping, including picking up the supplies for me to make my own kukui nut lei. Back at home we did some laundry and hung it out to dry before collapsing, I mean ... before resting up for the next day.