Quick Recap of Vacation

We had a great time.  It was LONG and more stops than we usually do on a vacation (LA, Oahu and The Big Island), but I made it!

Oahu -- Pearl Harbor, Waikiki Beach (high end window shopping) and a hike up the crater, Diamond Head.  

Air root trees originally from India

USS Arizona memorial
Sunken ship is below

View of Waikiki Beach from our hotel

Diamond Head
99 stairs at the end

Walking tunnel after first set of stairs

The Island of Hawaii (Big Island) is crazy different.  We stuck to the Kona side and it's mostly black lava flows.  Food tour in the town on Kona, estate plantation tour for Kona coffee and chocolate and boat-snorkeling to coral reef.  

The plantation was my favorite.  Owner and his husband run an award winning small plantation -- coffee, chocolate and soap.  The owner is over the top friendly and it was such a fun time.

Food tour

Okinawan potato drink.

Food tour

Food tour -- fruit stop

Chocolate grove

Star fruit picked off his tree

Soap making room

Taste testing patio.
Kona coffee, chocolate and soap smelling

Boat tour

Snorkeling was incredible.

Looks like a monster.
Hawaiians call it a god.

The resort was beautiful.  Beaches with lava flow.  Turtles.  Sunsets.  I liked this resort the most of any I've stayed.  We walked the beach, swam in the bay and pool, hung out on the patio.

Resort at night

Resort 

Sunsets

Friends

Pools

View from patio

Lobby patio -- open air

Beach walk

Turtle

I had poke, papaya and pineapple everyday.  We ate very casually -- mostly at the hotel and resort except one local dinner out (and the food tour day).  I didn't drink at all to keep my energy the best it could be.  Kona coffee everyday though -- I'll probably need to pull off caffeine this week.  

Brought back chocolate and coffee from the plantation and a mug (he's also a potter) -- nothing else.  Kids getting coffee and chocolate too.  

Dogs are super happy to see us and us them.  Stayed up until 4:45 yesterday and slept until 5:45.  Maybe jet lag is over??  

I have some Oura ring updates tomorrow.  This post is long enough.  I'm happy to be home.  Knock wood we stayed well and so far, not sick from the travel.  Later gators.