Hawaii

I mentioned in yesterday's post that the four of us just got back from an amazing trip to Hawaii on board NCL's Pride of America. Today, I am going to share with you some of our experiences.

This cruise was unlike other cruises I have taken in the past because it was all about seeing the islands. The ship was beautiful, don't get me wrong...but we spent most of our days driving around the Hawaiian islands sightseeing.

The cruise left from Honolulu. Kat and I had horrible jet lag so we were up with the surfers to welcome the new day. We went down to the beach about 4am and slowly watched the water fill with surfboards. By 6am there must have been over 50 people in the water!



The first two days we were in Maui. We found some beautiful local beaches and did the crazy, cliff side drive to Hana. At the end of the drive are the 7 pools. Maui was absolutely beautiful!

The next two days, we were on the Big Island of Hawaii. We went to the botanical gardens and saw many tropical flowers and trees - we even found a guava tree! We docked at two different ports on Hawaii and, during the night sail around the island, passed a live lava flow where we could see boiling lava spewing into the ocean. Pretty cool!



The last two days were spent in Kauai - the most beautiful island, in my opinion! The beaches were gorgeous and everything was lush and green. We also stopped by spouting horn - a spot in Poipu where the water crashes into the rocks and explodes into the air through an opening in the rocks. On really wavy days, the water will shoot up more than 20 feet!