Hawaii

The past 10 days we took a family vacation with Elise's family to the Hawaiian island of Kauai.  We took over 2500 pictures (I have no idea how many we took but that seems like a good napkin estimate).  Over the next week or so we will be uploading different posts chronicling the different adventures we had there.

After a flight delay due to adverse weather conditions in Chicago (we flew out of LAX), we got to Lihue just after sunset.  I had a window seat and snapped a few pictures of said sunset from the plane; as a bonus we all saw the mythical 'green flash'.  Between getting people's luggage (I always carry-on), getting the rental car and driving it was pretty late by the time we got to our destination in Hanalei.  Since it was dark during the drive I did not get to see much of 'The Garden Isle' that night.  I woke up the next morning, and the entire week, around 6-630 am local time.  Elise got up with me the first morning and we took some pictures of our view.

If you click to enlarge the pictures you can see part of the flash.

I thought these birds were beautiful; these hung around everywhere in  Hanalei.
I gave a few nicknames, this one is chubs.

View from the balcony at 630.

One of Kauai's many waterfalls.

Enjoying breakfast with a view.

My new favorite past time- morning coffee with a view.

Many, many more to come!!  Feel free to comment below about your favorite ones or memories from the different locales on Kauai.