For MJ's 30th George and MJ decided to bag California and go to sunny Hawaii for a golfing vacation. It was a blast! We spent the first week on the garden isle of Kauai and the second week on the Big Island of Hawaii - it was awesome! Here are some of the pictures from the trip...
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Even though we golfed a lot, we took
one day off from golfing to hike the Naapali coast trail. Its 2 mi up and down -
here we are at the 1 mi mark! |
The whole trail was in a tropical
rainforest and was gorgeous..here's a stream running through the trail. |
This is the river we hiked down to. |
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Looking down to the beach. | |
George insisted on taking this picture! | |
There's a good reason this is called the Garden Isle - isn't this amazing? | |
The trail was really steep - here's MJ running down while George is taking a rest! | |
Here's the picture from the bottom of the trail...no wonder its rated, "Hearty Family!" | |
Well we had enough of the hiking thing and got back into golf. Here we are at the hardest course we played, Princeville. | |
The club house here didn't suck.... | |
Princeville has a slope of 142 from the champion tees with a total distance of 6960 yards! Believe it or not you can also play the Prince tees with a slope of 145 and total distance of 7309 yards! MJ played from the ladies tees here...she wasn't stupid! | |
Here's George showing off his stuff. | |
Even though we had 40 over par scores and lost 5 sleeves of balls, we had a great time! | |
Another adventure (other than golfing) was a trip to the grand canyon of Kauai...Waimea Canyon. |
It looks like a green version of the Grand Canyon - awesome! | |
At the top is the Kalalau Lookout and its very close to the wettest place on Earth - with 390 inches of rain falling per year. It was raining when we were there and really foggy. | |
This was the lookout after the fog went away. Way off in the distance is the beach. | |
Well you know our heros couldn't stay away from the golf course for long...by the afternoon we were back hitting little white balls. Here's George with a rainbow in the background. | |
On the last day in Kauai we played the best course on the island - Kauai Lagoons. Every hole has a marker like this at the beginning. |
Well you know our heros couldn't stay away from the golf course for long...by the afternoon we were back hitting little white balls. Here's George with a rainbow in the background. | |
Here's George hitting over a ravine 150 yards! |
Here's the steep hill to the hole 5 par 3. You go through the rainforest to get to the green. | |
Now there's a fairway bunker! Jack Nicklaus designed this course and he is famous for his bunkers! |
Throughout the course was this lagoon. In this picture there are monkeys on the island. | |
Here's another club house that doesn't suck by our standards! |
This is the signature hole at Kauai Lagoons - George made a great shot here! | |
Also the 16th signature hole...this is the green...you better not miss or your ball is going into the drink. | |
Here's MJ trying to get to the green - its over the water 140 yards! |
Our Hawaiian adventure wasn't over yet - we flew over to the Big Island for another week of fun. Here we experienced playing golf in gale force winds and next to lava rock! | |
MJ displays the Kilauea crater. | |
This is the sign that we ignored to see the crater. | |
Throughout the park you can see when lava flows have covered the road. |
Here's the crater from the visitor's center. |
We had a wonderful time and didn't want to come home except to see the kids (Zuni and Caesar!)