Honeymoon: Day 4 and 5 Oahu and Kauai

Day 4 - Oahu

The early bird honeymooners rose at 5 am yet again.  We wanted to get an early start to head on over to Pearl Harbor.

This was the pocket-watch I talked about yesterday that I bought at the market, I photographed it on the dress that I was wearing that day, I thought it looked vintage with the lace and the sun streaming in.

We boarded bus 42 yet again and settled in for our hour plus ride, however this time I was smart and brought along some reading material. We got to Pearl Harbor and walked around, toured the USS Missouri and went out to the Arizona Memorial.  D was in all his glory as he is a huge history buff and I just continued to ask him dumb questions like: "Is Hawaii an American state?" "What exactly WAS Pearl Harbor?" etc. etc.  Unfortunately I am embarrassed to admit, but I am not the most well versed in history.  I did learn quite a bit on our day spent at Pearl Harbor and got teary at the Arizona memorial remembering all those that were lost.

I was glad we made the effort to go see Pearl Harbor as it was truly very touching.  I wont share every photo with you because we took a ton but here are a few from our time at Pearl Harbor.

We were definitely your typical tourists 

I liked seeing the bunks and close quarters that they lived in.  I'm pretty sure we were not supposed to get in the beds but D just had to have a photo op 

D and I took bus 42 back to our hotel and at this point of the trip we had started coming up with play garbage pail kid names for each other as a joke, every time I said I was hungry or complained about something D called me Miserable Maxine, Hungry Hallie, Ravenous Rachel, etc. I called him Frustrated Frank or Ringless Ronald (he kept taking his ring off to eat or forgetting to put it back on after the shower because he was not used to wearing a ring). 

We got home and were quite famished so I had seen in a travel brochure on the island that one of the most popular plates of the locals was a Hawaiian lunch plate.  It was almost the exact same thing that D and his friends make up at BBQ's in which they refer to as a "garbage plate".  So we asked the concierge where the best place to get one would be and she told us a diner not far from where we were staying. We walked about a mile to fit in with some of the real locals.

The Hawaiian lunch plate 

Chicken, steak, macaroni salad, rice, slaw, and always served on a paper plate
It looks gross but it was actually very good

We chowed down our snack and went for a walk to watch the sunset on the beach

This is where D acquired the Garbage Pail Kid names of "Check-in Charlie" and "Tagging Tommy" because he kept checking us in on Facebook

After the sunset we came home and passed out and never woke up for dinner.  D was a little upset that we missed dinner, we both LOVE to eat and when you are on vacation it seems you always look forward to your next meal, at least thats how it is when we vacation.  We slept for ten hours, and it was WELL needed.

Day 5 - We fly to Kauai

We woke up, had our morning coffee and headed out to the airport to catch our flight to Kauai.  We arrived in Kauai and this is where I really started to feel that we were in Hawaii.  Kauai was gorgeous, plush, tropical, green, and just beautiful.

We checked into the Marriott and were immediately greeted with two Mai Tais.  Hawaiian’s are so friendly! We went for lunch at a little marketplace not far from our hotel where I had the best hamburger ever and referred to it as "Amazing"; D looked at me and said "you are calling a hamburger amazing?".  It definitely does not take much to appease me.

View from our hotel room

The pool

The deck area

I go all the way to Hawaii and HAVE to have my HARIBO :)

We took a ride to visit D's long time client that he had never met in person that also happened to be staying on the island at another Marriott (same client that sponsored us to stay on the Volcanoes).  They were an adorable retired couple who gave us a mini tour around their resort, told us everywhere in Kauai to hit, and even gave us some yummy flavored Kona coffee and filters because they were leaving that next day.

Valley of Trees we drove through

 We hit the Sprouting Horn on the way back.  

Where the ocean water shoots 50 - 60 feet out of a hole in the lava.

Roosters were everywhere!

We got back to the hotel, hit the hot tub, relaxed by the pool, read, and got ready for dinner at a cute Japanese Restaurant. 

Flavor-Flav ready for dinner.  I loved my pocket watch necklace!

Our pool at night with the fire pit which we never got the chance to snuggle up by :(

D pretending he knew what he was doing eating with chopsticks

We had a few drinks and then headed home to hit the hay.

See you tomorrow for days 6 and 7 in Kauai!

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