Day 10- No words

On the last day in Maui we ran into this sign.... Oh how I love it....

Day 9- Flowers

I couldn't get enough of all the flowers here! I'm pretty much in love with the plumeria trees! Every now and James picks me one to wear behind my left ear. Take a gander!

Day 8- Crater sunrise

3am wake up call this morning. We drove for about an hour and a half to the top of the Haleakala crater to watch the sunrise. It was really pretty. Something everyone should do once!
These pics are a little out of order

The mountians in the background on the right is actually the big island.

The crater

This is what we look like at 5am



Here it is!

Day 7- CHURCH AFTER CHURCH

Today was sunday, we went to the singles branch to visit James old branch president. Then we went to the family ward where we were mildly mauled. It was one of the best R.S. meetings I've ever been to! I could tell you stories man.... I could tell you stories.... After that we had dinner with the Wunder family. Dang good food too! I was able to try the Lau Lau we helped them wrap the other night, and it was TASTY! and some raw poki fish...mmmmmm..... soooo good! Love the Wunders!

Day 6- Weekiversary

Today we took no pics! I forgot my camera all day!! We went to a huge swap meet/ farmers market in the morning after a hearty breakfast. It was insanely hot! We did get a ton of good fruit.
Then swimming at our condo's beach.
In the evening we got all dressed up and James took me for sushi-which he is NOT a fan of. It's great that he knows the good places to go here. We waited in line for this sushi bar to open, thats how good it was! James tried some new stuff, and hated it, but he tried it! So proud of that little buddy.
After that we went to a beach down the way for a pretty sunset. We watch them almost every night.
Anyways, it was a good day and I wish I had one single pic of it!!!

Day 5- Lahaina

We spent today in Lahaina, a beautiful seaside town. It looks like it could be interchangable with Park City Utah. Lahaina is a lot bigger, but they have the same style. I didn't take many pictures...I think I burnt out after yesterday!

This is the Banyan tree. It covers about an acre of land, and looks like a tiny forest in the middle of front street, but really it's just one huge tree! It's really cool.

Day 4-Road to Hana

Today we took the amazing road to Hana. You drive at about 15-25 MPH for 65ish miles around the coast and through a rainforest! OH. MAAAAAAN! It was SO amazing! I know my pictures wont do justice to the beauty that is constant on the highway. And most of this was from the car! We will hike more in the coming years. It takes 2 to 3 hours each way just for the driving. But it was SO worth it, and I plan on always making the drive when we come! It reminded me So much of a tropical version of Glacier. The narrow winding road and tons of waterfalls. We stopped at a one of the many road side stands on the way home to buy some weird fresh fruit. A lot of the stands go by the honor system and just have money box out in front. I wonder how well they actually do?

Probably some of the most beautiful farmland ever! Taro farm.




This is all one tree... the thinner parts are the roots that actually grow down from the branches!




A traditonal hut at the Haleakala National Park.





Thre beginings of the Seven pools in the HNP also. James up there gettin in to one of the upper pools.

This is the church where Charles Lindbergh is buried. It was in the middle of nowhere in the jungle. Totally run down on the outside...and had kind of a creepy vibe. I kept waiting for the horror movie to begin. But the cemetary was amazing.

The 2 head stones on the very left in all the black rock is Mr. and Mrs. Pryor. They are the ones who persuaded Lindburgh to take a trip to Maui in hope he too would move there. It took only one and he was smitten. See the 6 small graves under the bush on the right? Those are the graves of the Pryors 6 monkeys. No joke. They were like children to the Pryors. Kippy was the favorite.

"Well, hello, Charles"

This is a big portion of the cemetary.

James friend Lewis let us borrow a book called Maui revealed. We read through all the places we were wanting to go to one the Hana Highway to see if we would miss anything. In the section on Mr. Lindburgh's grave it tells you to walk out the back of the cemetary into a park behind the church, and then go to the very back right corner of the fence for a good view...here is that amazing view! I know this might seem blah...but in person...it was breathtaking!

On the way back out to Kihei, we stopped at the Hana cultural center. These signs were very informative and hilarious because they end with really messed up stuff! ha ha

This is basically a primative garage. So James of coarse had to go look around. I think the garage is his natural habitat.

Wainapanapa State Park black beach. Really beautiful.

A few rainforest shots.

This one is a little out of order.

That was just a scratch on the surface of things to do on the highway!

Lazy day 3

Today was SO lazy! We've had a few busy days, so we just mellowed for the morning...watching T.V. and doing laundry. We finally got out to the sugar museum. A good majority of Maui land is suger cane farms. It had some interesting parts... thought these bottles where pretty.

A model of a cock fight....it was creepy. Notice the black and blue tape holding their legs on. super high class...

Another beautiful Maui sunset....


Almost a full rainbow arched over our condo....

Day 2- The beauties of having a free personal tour guide!

I understand that really...blogging about the honeymoon is pretty much only for me. probably super boring, BUT it's nice to have a pic journal for the kids. ha ha Here's another fun filled day in Maui.

We got up early...and I mean EARLY because we are having a bit of jet lagg, we go to sleep at maui time, but wake up in Montana time....which ends up meaning we go to sleep at 11 and wake up at 4:30am. Ugh. So we went to one of the many local flea markets to find james a ring. You see... Because I procrastonated ordering his ring, it made it to Utah on monday...3 days after the wedding. the ring he used at the temple and at the reception was his great-grandpa's...and it was too big. So we figured we'd get him a inexpensive ring to wear until we get back to the mainland. It's a traditonal Hawiian wedding band. You see SO many people here wearing them, and we thought it would be cool to have.

Then we headed to our condos beach-

WE were trying so hard to keep our eyes open and we couldn't stop laughing!




After the beach, my handsom tour guide took me to the Iao Needle park. SO SO pretty!

The needle

For educational purposes....here's the discription of the needle

AWKWARD!







These beautiful purple trees are all over up country. This picture doesn't do it justice. They are HUGE and canopy the road in a lot of places. It almost looks like enourmous Lilac bushes. I love them!

James then took me to see the 1st LDS churcdch building on the island. It's kind of just a museum now. It's beautiful and the accoustics in there are amazing! You can feel the spirit as soon as you walk on the property. It was great!

The house off to the right is where the missionaries live.

James told me that in George Q. Cannon's journals he says that he walked with the savior in int hills behind this property...

We ended the day having dinner with a family of James' friends. A great end to another fun day.