Hawaii

I figured since I posted the wedding it would make logical sense to cover the honeymoon next! We went to the Big Island of Hawaii and stayed at the Hilton Waikaloa Resort (thanks Mom and Dad!!!). A beautiful, HUGE, resort right on the coast (I guess that's sort of redundant to say since everything is pretty much on the ocean there). In my head, our arrival off the plane would be all romantic and exciting. In reality, we got in really late at midnight and discovered that my luggage never got on the plane!!! Yes, that's right, laugh it up-a honeymooner with no luggage. You can see the joyful look on my face in this picture Eric took of the two of us.

Now, I might be able to survive in Hawaii on my honeymoon with no clothes (you can buy a bathing suit and live in that!), but I cannot survive without my beauty supplies!!! Luckily, there was a Wal Mart on our drive to the Resort, so we stopped there. I stocked up on some essentials (No makeup though, eeeeesh). My luggage arrived late the next day, but we spent our time wandering the resort, so I wasn't too concerned.





We decided instead of getting each other wedding presents, we would splurge and do the Dolpin Quest activites. Early Wednesday that week we went and played with the Dolphins! They have a special Dolphin area at the resort, so we got to watch the instructors feed and play with the Dolphins. We got to pet them and be in the water with them, then jump to the next pool and do some snorkeling (which FREAKS me out by the way-I can't breathe with the snorkeling mask!!). Eric loved the snorkeling though, so at least one of us enjoyed that part! And, he was also attached to the motorized handheld boat thingy they give you to help you get around the water.

Since we were there over Thanskgiving we also decided to do the Red Sail Sunset Tour...unfortunately, Eric got seasick and I didn't do too well myself...It was a horribly long 2 hours. We stared at land the whole time...



The rest of our Island adventure included lounging by the pool, reading, and driving around the Big Island to check out the Volcano.

It was definitely a memorable and fabulous trip. I talked Eric into letting me have the stuffed dolphin to bring home from the hotel too!!


I actually now have a small collection of these dolphins (thanks again to Mom and Dad!!!) :-)