Hawaii 2018

On July 13th, we flew to Hawaii :)
This trip, instead of the usual Oahu, we flew to Kona, stayed at Sunshine’s place in Hilo for a week, then at a Condo in Kona before flying back after two weeks.

 

After the long flight and a warm welcome, we did some stuff! We toured the Mauna Loa Macadamia factory, it was in the middle of a ton of macadamia trees! We also went to a market where orchids were aplenty!

We took in some lunch at the Suisan Fish Market, which is amazingly fresh!

We also hit up the Slack Key festival and found Kris and Keiko Fuchigami and I got to take photos with them!

We saw a lot of the prettiness that Hilo brings!

We even went to the top of Mauna Kea, the biggest mountain in the world (from its base) to take pictures of the stars! It was really cold!

Some amazing photos from the top of Mauna Kea!

More information on the 2018 Eruption in Hilo can be found here

I got a sweet new Ukulele!

We tried to immerse ourselves in nature! The below was just a random stop at the side of the road, where there was just a little bit of a trail.

Some of the beaches were cool, some had black sand. There was this area where fresh water from the mountains and the ocean water mixed and there was a visitor we had to say hello to!

We visited some zoos and botanical gardens too!