Honeymoon Blog: Day 7 - The End...

Saturday 7/2

Today was our last full day of paradise. We have mixed emotions. We could stay here forever but we miss home, normality, family, and most importantly, Otto.

We started the day off with breakfast, and what Connor claims to be a failed snorkeling trip. Elise had told him the night before that she wanted to snorkel but knew that come morning she would be too cold to go in the water so he would have to make her. He didn’t so we did not end up snorkeling… we failed. So we came and lounged around the hotel for a bit before heading, once again, up to the North Shore. 

On our way to the North shore we made a pit stop at Costco. We ran in to get genuine Hawaiian Rum and macadamia nuts! 

From there we coasted on farther North to stop at the Kilahuea Lighthouse. It was not worth the $10 but cool to see. We both agreed that seeing the migrating humpback whales in winter would be a much better use of our money. 

Our last stop, Hanalei we found to be much too touristy. We were there to get on our Catamaran tour, but being the early birds we are, we arrived an hour early. We looked around a little and grabbed a double Bubba burger and chili rice at Bubba’s Burgers. It was pretty good and allowed for some good people watching. 

The Catamaran Tour was fabulous. We took a 16 person Catamaran on a 4 hour tour (we sang the Gilligan’s Island theme song a lot today…) along the Na’Pali coast. We saw all the places we had hiked this week! It was great to be able to see the beautiful coastline from both angles. We were able to enter a few sea caves, see a few sea turtles, and snorkel along the coast. It was a great way to spend our last full day in Kauai. We returned home to eat our Tidepools leftovers, pack some, and pass out. Tomorrow we leave at 2 p.m. Kauai time for KS.

*We would like to note, due to some concern, that the entry that mentioned a “marriage ending hike” was merely a joke. No serious fights or interactions have occurred while on this fabulous vacation.

**Another note, we apologize for Connor’s Frisbee tan lines… ;)