Hawaii - Day 4

Tuesday -
This day started out V-E-R-Y leisurely. We all needed to sleep in and we did! After breakfast we headed to the beach.  The kids were not impressed with the beaches. (weirdos) They thought the beaches should be sand. We tried to explain how the island was formed from a volcano so sand beaches would not be usual but black lava rock would be. Especially on the dry side we were on. Did not work. They complained. Sigh... So while they were pouting Superman and I took a walk along the beach.  I happened upon a real coconut on the ground so I gathered it up, knowing full well Vern would love to see it.  Well I brought it back and was correct. Here he is trying to break into it. Every day for the rest of the vacation he would spend time pounding his way towards the center of the coconut but never quite reaching it. 

We tried to appease the kids by taking them to a second beach. I was loving it. (yes this is prob the only time you will EVER see me in a swim suit) They did not! They kept begging to go and I kept pretending not to hear them with the wave noise and all. :-)  We were watching fish and turtles in the shot below.

Later that day we took a drive north to Kawi. This is a  small  town on the north shores of the Big Island.  By small, I mean no stop lights, a 2 block main street, and a few homes.  This was the largest town on the north side of the island!  We got there around 7pm and guess what??? The ice cream parlor was closed! WTF?!?!?!?!?!?  All the other stores were also closed except for one hippie fudge store. I didn't buy any fudge as I figured there would be some "medicianal" herbs added to the fudge and my kids didn't need that.

So we got the heck out of that town and drove back on Mountain road. Yes, that was name. We were blessed with seeing a beautiful sunset. Again, a simple photograph does not describe the beauty of the place. It was worth the drive to see this.

You can see in this next shot, how chilly it was on Moutain road. Right around 65 degrees. Look behind the kids and you can see the ocean. In that short space, down by the ocean, it was 80+ degrees.

We also saw some amazing cactus on the drive but those pictures did not turn out as it was too dark by the time we thought to stop and photograph them.  These cactus looked more like bushes or trees they were so big.  So now we come the end of this day. Relaxing AND enjoyable, even with all the complaining!