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| Day Four was another Hawaiian adventure- a trip on a city bus, a trek through a neighborhood to find a path, to hike up through a rain forest, to see a waterfall. My kind of day! |
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| My hiking buddies :) |
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| It's difficult to appreciate how HUGE these trees were- see my baby girl? |
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| bamboo forest....so cool. |
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| HUGE trees! |
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| See Emily and I?! This rain forest was like a scene out of Jurassic Park! We half expected to see dinosaurs come crashing through the jungle! |
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| Such a beautiful hike. I LOVED IT. |
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| It was quite the hike up and a bit muddy and slippery along the way. We eventually heard water rushing..... |
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| Our view from the boulders we sat on while we had our picnic lunch :) |
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| I couldn't wait to get in! |
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| My view looking up, up, UP! |
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| I will NEVER pass up an opportunity to put my head, or my whole big self, in to a waterfall :) |
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| Happiest girl in Hawaii :) |
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| C'mon in girls, the water is awesome! |
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| As I sat with the sun on my back and watched and listened to the girls playing on the rocks in the water, I was taken back twenty years. The rest of the pictures tell the same story to this day...Little Sissy leading Big Sissy, telling her where to step and leading the way :) |
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| Ta-dah!!! Adorable <3 |
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| My Peaches, my Ellie Bug. I have the best girls :) |
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| Such a huggable buggable <3 |
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| We got home just in time to wash off the mud, throw on a dress and head out the door! |
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| We had a bus to catch to go to Paradise Cove for a luau! |
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| My lovelies <3 |
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| We had a couple of hours to enjoy the Hawaiian festivities before dinner was served. We started with mai tai's and tattoos! |
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| tats :) |
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| We opted to not take a family bird photo...six birds in all! |
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| There was spear throwing, some sand games and such, but we decided to braid a headband :) Emily thought it was going so well, until the old Hawaiian guy promptly took it from her hands to say she did it all wrong! |
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| What a cool keepsake; I wore mine on the plane ride back to Beijing :) |
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| While the girls were braiding, I joined in on the shower of petals...it was beautiful. |
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| Then I braided, too. |
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| You could also paddle around in an outrigger canoe, or cast and pull fishing nets. They got a group of men to do a tribal dance to bless the bounty from the sea. It didn't work- their nets came up empty, lol. |
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| The sun was beginning to set as they blew the conch shell for the 'unearthing' of the pigs that were roasting in the sand ovens. |
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| We got some pretty wooden carvings, and then Ellie found a squished penny machine! She's been collecting squished pennies from all over the world since she was a little girl :) |
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| I grabbed my dinner plate, then headed down to the beach to catch the setting sun. I savor these moments. |
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| So beautiful |
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| We were treated to some traditional Hawaiian dances, then they got some audience members to participate in learning to hula. The girls joined in on the fun. The funny thing is, I remember doing the Hukilau at the Kodak Hula Show about a hundred years ago :) |
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| The dancing was really beautiful. If you want to see some eye candy...have a look at this You Tube link. Yes, the male dancers' thighs are that huge!!! hot, hot, hot hula males! Our dancers performed this same 'muscle dance'- whew! |
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| The perfect end to a perfect day :) |
G'nite, y'all!
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