Aloha

Its been a while since i've blogged!
My laptop was in getting fixed, so i was laptopless on my vacation!


I just got back from a wonderful two week vacation in Kailua-Kona Hawaii! Which is on the Big Island.
Minus my luggage! My parents luggage made it but mine didnt :(.
Last night the plane from Kona-Vancouver was a lot heavier than they thought so they had to fill it up with more gas! LOL
Our flight was a hour late which caused us to have a tight connection this morning of only 50 mins in Vancouver, we had to go through customs, get our bags, drop them off, go through security then run like a cheetah to our gate! There was about 25 people who's luggage didn't make it when they got into Calgary! But mine should come tonight, hopefully!!


4th time to Hawaii, but 1st time to the Big Island! Oahu twice and Maui once!


It was an awesome vacation, nice to get away from the cold weather. I went with my mom and dad, we were there for both Christmas and New Years!


We got there on the 18th, checked into our condo, went for dinner (i had fish and chips!), went to get groceries then called it a night since we were up extremely early! Plus its 3 hours behind from Calgary.


Most of the time we were there was well spent on the beach sun tanning and playing in the waves. Some days the waves would reach up to 9 feet. On our last day they were up to 15 feet and very strong and powerful!!! There was lots of action for the lifeguards telling people to stay close to shore and not to go out too far. Also told those with kids to stay close to shore or go to another beach which was a mile down the road. One lady took her little baby into the water and a big wave came, strong enough to push her out to the ocean that the lifeguard had to go out and help them back to shore! It was not good to see this but glad that they both were okay.
I also went boogie boarding, but had to do it first thing in the morning when the waves weren't as strong, but man it still was strong! On the last day one huge wave came, and just pushed me under the water!


I almost lost my bottoms when a powerful wave came on the last day!


While we were there we did some shopping, there isnt much shopping on this island, which is fine with me since I HATE shopping! LOL. If you want to shop in Hawaii then Oahu is the island for you! This island is more of rest and relax :)


One day we did went around the island, when u get to the other side of the island its 100% different! they get lots of rainfall so its very green. We went to Hilo the same day to shop there which was pretty lame! Hilo is the 2nd largest city in hawaii after Honolulu. We did see some beautiful waterfalls on the way!


Another day we went to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park! Which was really neat! You can drive through this park and stop at places such as steam vents, lava tubes, lava rocks! I wanted to see lava which we didnt :(. The weather was very different in parts of the park, some parts were rainy and as u got to the coast it was hot and humid!


We also went whale watching which was totally worth it!! We also saw spinner dolphins which was a bonus!!


Even from our beach we could see the whales and spinner dolphins :) Also some turtles swam close to the shore :)


Another place we had to go is Tex Drive in where they have Portuguese Malasadas! It is some kind of pastry and its delicious!! =P. We stopped twice. lol. We were going to on the way to the airport but it was closed =( 


As you can see it was pretty much a lazy vacation! A perfect lazy vacation on the beach!


I was very sad to be leaving Hawaii
I sure miss being on the beach, sand between my toes, swimming in the ocean :( But all good things have to come to an end eventually :(


Back to reality and lotion will be my best friend for a while! Dry skin from all the sun lol.


Mahalo :)