Kaua'i Day 3

Friday morning Tessa and I walked to the ponds to take pictures of her new outfit. :)

It was a little rainy again this morning, so we had a slow morning deciding what to do.

Paul took the kids to the pool while I went on a run to check out a new beach a few friends had told us about. It's called Hideaways Beach, and it only has 8 parking spots, so if you want to get a spot you have to go really early. It's quite the steep decline to get there from the parking lot, and with it raining so much it was really slippery.

But the beach was awesome!!

It was a small beach, with trees lining it creating shade, and gorgeous views of the coast. I thought it was worth trying to get a spot there one morning for sure.

We decided to head down south to Poipu Beach after lunch. 

We wanted to see the turtles again, so we planned to stay until dark. There were already about 7 turtles on the sand when we got there though!

Rockwell, Tessa, and Paul snorkeled for a while and saw a bunch of fish and turtles. 

There were a couple grown men who got so excited about seeing the turtles. It was really fun to watch them. :) They were yelling to Paul and the kids that a turtle was heading their way, so they all went underwater. Tessa was instantly face-to-face with a turtle. She said it was so cool!!

The waves got bigger as the night went on, and Tessa did some boogie boarding too.

We walked over and got some Puka Dogs and pizza for dinner.

We went back over to see the turtles on shore before we went home for the night. There were probably about 30 at that point, and one lady who stays with them at night told us that some nights there have been over 100 turtles!!

Kaua'i Day 2

We headed straight to Hanalei Bay Thursday morning. :)

We were all wanting to jump off the pier again, but the waves were much bigger than we've ever seen in the bay. It didn't seem safe to jump off with the size of the waves, but we had a great time boogie boarding on the bigger waves.

Paul and Rockwell passed the football, we played in the sand, and just loved being in Hanalei.

It started raining after a few hours so we headed home for some lunch. The rain continued most the afternoon, but luckily the kids don't mind swimming in the rain, and Paul and I don't mind the hot tub in the rain. :)

We went back to Hanalei for dinner and decided to try Hanalei Gourmet. The mountains behind Hanalei were full of waterfalls with all the afternoon rain. It was gorgeous!

Paul loves a good Loco Moco plate!

Earlier in the day we had stopped in town to use the bathrooms and Tessa saw an outfit outside one of the shops. She wanted to buy it right then and there, but it was quite expensive, so I told her to think on it for a few hours at least, knowing we would be coming back for dinner later. As soon as we were finished with dinner she asked if she could go buy the outfit. She definitely still wanted it. :) Tessa and I were the only ones in the shop for a while when she was trying it on, so we got some time to talk to the lady working there. When she rang the outfit up, she put in her employee discount and told Tessa that she feels pretty positive that Tessa will come live on Kaua'i one day and will be part of the community so she might as well get a "locals" discount. Haha. Tessa said that sounded like a great plan, and thanked her for the discount. :)

Tessa was so excited to get home and put on her new Hawaiian outfit.

After some JoJo's shave ice of course! :)

Fall Break On Kaua'i - 2023

 

We found a great deal on flights to Kaua'i a few months back, and decided we wanted to go over Fall Break. We had to get up very early Wednesday morning to make our 6:25 am flight, but it was totally worth it and some of us even got little naps on the plane.

We were so excited to see the island out the windows of the plane!

We always love stepping off the plane, feeling the warmth and humidity, smelling all the flowers, and hearing the roosters. It feels like our second home. :)

We got our rental car, ate some lunch, did some grocery shopping, and then headed up to Princeville. We stayed at the Bali Hai Villas the whole week this time. We love it there.

The kids were so excited to get in the pool!

We had been awake for a long time, so we all went to bed early that night.