Honeymoon Part 3

Wednesday June 9, 2010

We woke up nice and early ate our breakfast in the car as we headed off to the North part of the island...the Wai'po Valley.  We met up with a group there to have another fun adventure that Brian had planned. 

  We went horseback riding!

Sadly, Brian had the camera so there are way more pictures of me than him.  Sorry!

This is me with my horse Thunder.

There were about 8 of us in the group with 3 local tour guides, TJ, Poa, and Roy.  The guides were awesome!  They told great stories.  Poor Thunder had just gotten new shoes and his hooves were very tender.  He wanted to walk on the side of our trail where it was nice and soft.  That, meant we were a lot slower.  Brian and I were at the end of the group with Roy. Here's some pictures of our ride.

We rode up to this amazing look out.  Here's Brian's video of it.

We had a beautiful view of a 1,200 foot waterfall and a beach.  It was absolutely breath taking.

Ah, the camera man!  Too bad we can't see his horse Taro in this picture.  Don't worry here's a great shot of us with our horses and the view in the background.

After stopping we continued up the trail and Brian got some better pictures of the waterfall.

We then stopped here:

Here's another video

Here are some pictures of us here at the lookout.

Our guide Roy went off and grabbed some fresh mac nuts from a tree nearby and showed us how to break them open to eat.

Here's Brian after tasting it. 

They are so much better fresh!  They remind me of eating fresh coconut from the shell.  Fleshy, and soft.  I decided to give cracking a mac nut a try.

After this stop we turned around and headed back with TJ.  Brian and I were the only ones to do the 2 1/2 hour ride.  The others signed up for the 5 hour ride.  We think 2 1/2 was sufficient.  Our rears were pretty tired.  Here are the last few pictures.

 It was such a gorgeous day and we really enjoyed the scenery.  Plus, it was Brian's first time on a horse!  Can you believe it?  I mean...he grew up in Texas!

After we drove back to Kona we decided we wanted some more shaved ice.  We didn't have to go too far this time for it.  

We then went swimming again.  While swimming, I found out that Brian and I would be leaving the island in the next day, but I'm not going to tell you where we were headed.  :)

It was then time to go get ready for the Luau at our resort!  Here are lots of pictures and a couple of videos:

I think Brian like the fire dancer best.

The Luau was so great!  We ate yummy food (Brian even liked the poi) watched a great show and really enjoyed the evening.  When we got back to the hotel we realized that we didn't take a picture of our room, so here it is all super messy!  Ha ha.

It was a great room and we were going to miss the balcony and view that we had to enjoy.  Kona was such a beautiful and relaxing place to be.

Stay tuned for where we head to next...