Tuesday, July 19, 2005

guess who's back

i haveth return...ith... yes...

hawai'i was pretty awesome. and that is a huge understatement. Monstrous, actually. because it would get boring just kind of rambling like i usually do about stuff, and this is two weeks worth of stuff, i figured i would make a list. i like making lists.

**i apologize.. in advance? during? no idea. but it is 8 in the morning and i have been up since... well... eight yesterday... and that is hawai'ian time... so.. sometime yesterday? and sleeping will make me all crazy in the head. er. well. more grumpy. i am mildly not sane right now. heh, becca and rachel knows.. when i get really really tired, i go into this sort of stupor. becca says i come off as drunk. but i deviate.**

[list of things done in hawai'i]
first six days in maui:
- snorkeled! a lot. a lot a lot a lot. it was spectacular, i saw an eel AND an octopus. i have decided that octopus' have a cool rating equivalent to moose. which is phenomenally high. there were also a lot of sea turtles.
- drove a bunch. the highway to hana? it was awesome. we stopped and swam at waterfalls and the such. very tropical.
- hiked somewhere near hana, which was just fabulous. it took a while, and was about 5 miles total, through a bunch of mud (did i mention it rains a lot?). and a bamboo forest. to a 181-foot waterfall.
- woke up at 5 something am with nick and my dad and we drove to the top of haliakala, the dormant volcano summit. it was 10000 feet high. and very windy. i have some pictures i will post sometime maybe. i got a cool picture of me and this really big cactus-y looking plant.
- got really sunburned.
- saw CACTUS TREES. unfortunately, there are no pictures.
- a bit of boating

next few days on the big island:
- stayed a night in a house thing on the side of the active volcano. that was cool.
- "hiked" (down a paved road) to go see the lava flow. that was awesome. we also saw it as it went into the ocean. lots of steam.
- drove around the kiluwea (sp?) caldera (it's sort of like a crater).
- walked through a rift on said caldera
- saw cool lava fronds
- walked through a lava tube in the jungle
- took a helicopter ride. that was one of the coolest things. we saw spectacular waterfalls.
- stayed at a very.. interesting... bed and breakfast... these people were just kind of weird.. and that's saying a lot, coming from me.

last six days on kaua'i:
- saw 2985729857258729 chickens. heh. apparently, they got spread all over the island by a hurricane (think about that for a second, it's hilarious). and since there aren't any natural predators excluding humans, they proliferate like rabbits. an actual job on the island is a chicken exterminator for golf courses.
- hiked along a mountain ridge. it was pretty much a cliff and dropped straight off on one side and close to that on the other. but it was all forested and very beautiful. but it was muddy. again. not really a surprise.
- saw a whole lot of rainbows
- surfed (finally). the waves there are so much nicer than galveston. meh. it is hard to call those waves... more like... sludge ripples...
- took another helicopter tour. this one was better by far. we saw that waterfall that's in jurassic park (they filmed a bunch of that movie on the island). and a whole lot of other waterfalls. and flew through a bunch of canyons that were almost exactly like the grand canyons, only prettier, i think. lusher. the grand canyon is just kind of... dry... and meh, really. nice to hike down though, at least at the beginning, it's cool temperature wise.
- sadly, i got really ill on the last day, so we didn't do much.
- also got water in both my ears (i have bad hearing to begin with), so i can barely hear anything now. i have to go to an ent later this weekish.

i know i'm leaving stuff out, i just can't remember what it is at this point in time. oh well. i know a lot of you were probably like man this is boring. or maybe i'm just thinking that i would think it's boring? no idea. ooo, i did get sort of tan. well. tan for me. after i burned.

oh, and danielle! it was depressing, i found no boy for you. or belt. they have no ugly belts, just regular boring ones. i will continue my search!

anyway... i am bored already. toodles for now!

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