Hawaii? how long ago was that?

Yeah, very late Hawaii post, but it was already started, so I'm finishing it.

Sarah and I went to Hawaii.  We went to Kauai, and it was awesome.  Lots of hiking and snorkeling and eating good food.  The best was either the Korean food we had when we got there, or the sushi we had a few days into the trip.  The luau food was pretty good too, but poi is really gross.  I wish there was something good to say about poi, but there just isn't.  It's a very light purple color, which I don't think was particularly appetizing or beautiful.  It is pretty bland, and what flavor is there isn't particularly good.  The texture almost like a pudding texture that went extremely wrong and ended up kind of sticky.  If you ever have a chance to taste poi, do so at your own risk.

There are pictures I meant to post to go along with this, but they're at home and I am not.  They were mostly like the pictures Sarah posted, but all of them included a plastic squirrel named Marty that was snuck into our luggage by some crafty friends.  Marty had an excellent vacation.

Did I mention snorkeling is awesome?  At least, after our first try it was awesome.  We tried to snorkel on some beach that was pretty shallow a long way out, and in the shade, and it was cloudy, might have been raining a bit, and was a bit chilly.  Once it warmed up a bit, it was a lot more fun, and a couple of other beaches had better areas for snorkeling, where there were a ton more fish, and one had an eel.  Eels are pretty creepy little things, especially since it reminded me about a guy I saw on some discovery channel show who's thumb was eaten by an eel.  That was totally his own fault, since he had been feeding the eel sausages that seemed to be rather thumb shaped.  Bad idea.

The hikes were all awesome too.  Tropical areas are really beautiful, and very, very different from the desert I live in.  It doesn't hurt to have amazing views of the ocean popping up through the trees, or really big waterfalls (if you're hiking in the canyon).  And if we had gone further on one of the hikes we went on, apparently there is some sort of weird bunch of hippies living off the land and evading the rangers.  We didn't see them, so I'm sure it's pretty safe to assume if you go, you won't have to see them either.

Anyway, that's pretty much all of the Hawaii trip.  Oh, except for getting horribly sick at the end.  That sucked. Good thing that's way in the past now :)  Oh, and I hate Hawaii customs.  They made us eat our giant asian pear because we weren't allowed to bring it back to the mainland.  If you've seen asian pears in the grocery store, they're usually about the size of a large apple.  That's a tiny asian pear.  They're supposed to be closer to the size of a large grapefruit.  It totally wasn't cool to have to eat that when we weren't really hungry, and when I was starting to feel like crap.

So there's my Hawaii post, inspired to be completed by some show about Kauai that we caught a little of while we were setting up the computer to watch Grimm.  Grimm's a pretty cool show.  And now I'm all caught up on my blog, except for going to China, having a baby, and basically anything else that has happened in my life.