Hawaii Part 1: Kauai

Before I begin my Hawaii post I must express my extreme exuberance for the birth of little Avery Nicole Bradford!! I haven't gotten to meet her yet or really talk to her mom due to being in the mountains! BUT I have seen pictures of that precious little dark haired child and LOVE her already!!!! I am headed to meet her in person and see Rox as a mommy asap after we get back!

Ok now Hawaii.....today ended our first half of our trip to Hawaii! We are staying with some friends of Lance's family who live here and they took us all over Kauai (one of the islands) and it was awesome! They call it "The Garden Island" and it was beeeeautiful. We went snorkeling the first day and happened upon 20+ sea turtles! It was one of the coolest things I have ever experienced. They were surrounding us in every direction and we were so close we could touch them! We also saw a seal chilling on the beach. We saw an eel as well which was not cool to me and freaked me out(these are on the waterproof so I won't be able to post yet). We went ziplining through the trees, went on a dinner cruise of the napoli coastline (the prettiest place I have seen in my entire life), and then headed back to what we coined "turtle beach" for some more turtle action. We flew back to Oahu tonight. We are back at our friends house now so I thought I would send a few pics into the blog world. We are headed out tomorrow to the North Shore for some yummy seafood, a trip to the set of LOST (yaaaaaaaaay), and to the Dole Pineapple Factory. I will hopefully have time to get on later this week and post some of those pictures. Ok that's all for now.....enjoy the pictures.

Lance & I today after a fun day of snorkeling! Note: as the trip progresses I am getting LESS tan b/c my "airbrush tan" is wearing off! NOT how things are supposed to go!
Just some of the pretty beach.

Nice little waterfall we saw on a hike.

"Puff the Magic Dragon"....ya know from that song? This is the dragon they were talking about in the song....I think the guy was high or something....can you see the dragon!? :)

Some more pretty scenery shots.

My favorite thing so far! This was so pretty in real life...the waves were crashing onto these rocks!


Me & Lance by a waterfall.

The girls at the resort on our first day in Kauai!

Our authentic Hawaiian juice they served us on the flight from Honolulu to Kauai!

Spinner Dolphins! They were soooo cute and we learned that they are the most promiscuous dolphins and mate 50+ times a day...and when they are not mating they are eating. I think every guy on the boat wished they were a spinner dolphin! :)

Sunset on out Dinner Cruise! Pretty huh!?

Us on the ledge, it was about to rain and the sky looked so cool! The pic doesn't do it justice.

Check out the water! SO BLUE!

We happened upon this little grave yard and I was fascinated! It was behind a trash dump and totally abandoned. Most of the graves were written in some type of tribal language and were over 100 yrs old! This poor guy just had a wooden cross with some writing on it.

Lance today in front of some awesome hills!