Hawaii – February 2023 / March 2023

We took a mid-winter break to travel to Hawaii

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This morning at brakfast we took a picture of some of the workers with Giadee

We are home!!

We travelled from Maui to Oahu early in the morning

We were greeted with a great sunrise as we approached Newark Airport

A great trip!

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Traveling back to New Jersey, we are in the Oahu Airport for a few hours so here is some pictures of our trip so far… It is absolutely beautiful gorgeous here, even with the rain we had the last few days….

Traveling to the airport

A video of the trip t othe airport

Pictures from the plane

God has richly blessed us to spend the time we did here, we look forward to being home and someday return again.

God bless you!

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Our last full day of adventure in Hawaii – It has been a fabulous trip and we go home tomorrow arriving early Friday morning in Newark, NJ

I ran 3-1/2 miles this morning.

We had a rainbow this morning

We took a trip to the Up Country today to a town called Makawao… a quaint old town.

An old building

We had coffee and tea and snacks at a small coffee shop called Vida

We had lunch at Freshies

The Maui Cookie Lady – yummy cookies and snacks.

A video of some of our travels

A sunset tonight

A few more pictures

Another favorite greeter at the Lanai a place for snacks and light dinner bites, we have here, Giadee

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This morning I ran 3-1/2 miles, feels so good.

We spent the day at the beach.

A lady had a huge telephoto lens on her camera, I asked her about it, she said she had a Cannon R7, which is the newest and she was shooting in sport mode. She let me take a few shots and it rapidly fired. Great for shooting whales….

We had a good day relaxing and watching the waves come in, our sunset cruise was canceled due to rough water.

Our favorite hostess Daisy at the hotel

We went shoping at the stores in the area but got caught in the rain. Here Megan is with a group of pretty flowers

We are truly blessed to have this time here as we wind down our wonderful trip.

Until next time!

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Started the day with a 3-1/2 mile run

We. had breakfast and saw a beautiful rainbow

We travelled north to Napili and saw some beaches

We then travelled south to Lahaina it. has a huge number of offshoots that root like another tree

The biggest banyan tree in the US, it has many branches that shot down to look like different trees but it is one tree.

We had lunch at the Cool Cat Cafe

Around town in Lahaina

Lahaina Heritage Museum

The Lahaina Heritage Museum which was in the old court house

A sunset at the hotel

Until next time!

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I started the day with a 3-1/2 mile run, the path is part of the run I do every day here on Maui.

We spent most of the day at the beach

Some videos

The first is Chris in the ocean

The second is around the ocean

Tonight we went to a luau, which was great

We had another great day here…. the beach and then the luau which finished with the fire dancers….

More to come….

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Today I ran 3-1/2 miles – a few pictures from the run at 6:40 am.

On the road again:

We had breakfast and the set out for the Maui Nui Botanical Garden in Kahakuloa

We then went to Paia where we had lunch at the Paia Fish Market (we were there two years ago and enjoyed this time and last time too). We went to the Pueo Gallery and bought a beautiful vase that will be shipped home. We had some ice cream and then headed back to the hotel.

Sunset

We had a great day!!!!!

Until next time!!!

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Today we took a trip down to the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary in Kihei

A video of our drive to Kihei

We had lunch at Leodas Kitchen and Pie Shop on Route 30 not far from the hotel

At the hotel we saw the parrots out.

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Our trip from Big Island to Maui

Megan took some videos while we were driving at the end you will see the open air aipport at Kona on the Big Island. There is a lot of lava towards the middle……

Sunset at the Westin in Ka’annapali, Maui

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Our last full day on the Big Island

was filled with a great experience.

The first day of lent was today

On the road a few scenic stops

We travelled south just close to Captain Cook and visited St. Benedict’s Catholic church known as the Painted Church.

We then travelled further south to Naalehu which is the southern most town in the USA

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Today we spent at the beach.

I took a few pictures on my morning run today

A couple of pictures on way back from breakfast

We took a walk around the hotel grounds before dinner at Pueo’s Osteria an italian place near by.

We had a great day!

More to come!

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Today we went to the Hawaiian Volcanoes National Park.

We had a great time driving around and going to the viewing areas.

A description about lava

Some more other side of crater

The Lava Tunnel – about 1500 feet long. It was a steep path down and steep off but well worth it.

It was a two hour trip from the east side of the island to the west side – through an elevation of about 2500 to 3000 feet, we hit heavy rain going and coming. The viewing was inhibited by the rain. It rains a majority of times…. If you get a chance to visit the Big Island take a trip to the Volcanoes National Park it is great…..

After the visit to the park we had lunch at this nice cafe nearby

We had dinner at Bin Chont Tan restaurant at the hotel, it is japanese themed but very good.

Here we are after dinner

More to come!

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We finally got sun this morning…

We started out to the Volcano National Park but missed the exit and will go tomorrow instead.

I ran 3 miles this morning along the ocean and then on the golf course and road.

Here are a few pictures from the car, courtesy of Megan

We spent the day at the beach, here are some pictures from the beach and around

Ready for dinner

We had another great day!

More to come!

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Today I started my day by running three miles.

We then had breakfast at the Orchid Court Restaurant here at the hotel.

We walked around the hotel to explore the grounds some pictures follow:

We took a ride to Kailua-Kona about 40 miles south of our hotel

We went to the Big Island Grill for lunch.

We then went to the Kona Coffee and Tea Company close by.

We took a stroll around the grounds right before diner

We had pizza at Waikola Pizza about 5 miles away on the way we saw a beautiful sunset

We had a great time on the Big Island….

More to come…….

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We arrived on the Island of Hawaii (the Big Island) about 1:00 pm local time. The airport is almost totally outdoors…. there is a lot of lava on side of road which has been there for years, we are not near the recent eruptions.

I took a few pictures from the plane, here they are:

A picture from the balcony of our room, it is cloudy and rainy so when we have sun we will post a brighter picture.

More to come……

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Today we took a break and spent the day at the beach, we rented two chairs and an umbrella, we had a nice view of the ocean and beach, I went in for a short time and the picture is when I came out.

We have enjoyed our time here on Oahu, especially seeing new things on the North Shore yesterday and seeing the large waves.

We leave for the Big Island tomorrow afternoon and onto the next adventure.

Here I am just out of the ocean at the Royal Hawaiian Beach! Also a picture of us at dinner tonight

Praise the Lord that we have this opportunity at this time.

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Today’s adventure is that we drove to the North Shore and saw several beaches with large waves, not the 60 foot high but still big waves…. We had a great time driving around the Island, beautiful and much more rustic than the Waikiki area we are staying in. We hit rain and the Windward side of the island (which is the east side of the island.)

Here are pictures from the various beaches….

Ted’s Bakery in Kahula, Megan had a Macadamia Nut Pie

We had lunch of Shrimp at Giovanni’s Shrimp Truck in Kahula – Megan had Shrimp Scampi and I had Butter Lemon Shrimp, very yummy!

We got Macadamia Nuts at the Macadamia Nut Factory

We finished the day with a walk to find the International Shopping Center, finally founded it with Google Maps, we. had pizza from Aloha Pizza which was delicious……

More to come soon!!

God Bless….

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We arrived yesterday and got ourselves settled into vacation mode – 5 hour time difference – earlier than the east coast of USA.

Yesterday’s pictures

Today we had breakfast at the hotel

Valentine’s Breakfast, the waiter helped us get flowers from the restaurant to put on the graves at the cemetery, so nice of them.

We went to the Punch Bowl National Cemetery and visited Patrick, Becky. Carrie Anne Foley’s grave site

Some more displays at the Cemetery, Tinian is where Megan’s Dad, Clinton Rose served there when the Enola Gay took off from there to drop the first atomic bomb

Pearl Harbor

We finished the day off with a trip to Leonard’s Bakery for the Malasada stuffed donuts – reall yummy!

We finished Valentine’s Day at an excellent dinner at Wolgang Puck Steak House, sweet valentines….

Hawaii is a beautiful place a few more days we will go to two other islands…..

To be continued….