Long Over Due

I know, I know. I am totally slackin' on the posts as usual. But anyway, we were able to go to Hawaii a second time this year with some of Jason's family. His mom and dad went for two weeks to celebrate their anniversary and let us tag along for the last week. Jason's sister, Krista and her husband Kenny came along with us. We went back in September, so that just tells you how bad I am slackin. It was a great relaxing vacation that was so needed. (Not like we didn't just have one two weeks earlier to D.C.) Anyway, we did more of the same stuff but we had people with us so it was a totally different experience. We went snorkeling several times and we went over to the other side to see the Volcano National Park, which was way cool cause we got to see more activity than our other trips. We also went up to Waipio Valley with the Basque's and actually drove down into the valley. You have to have four wheel drive in order to get down there or you have to hike... But who hikes? Honestly. All eight of us were crammed in an Explorer or somethin like it. It wasn't that bad except that the back seat was raised so you couldn't really sit up straight or you'd hit the ceiling. In one of the condos we rented, there was a fishin' pole and so Jason and Kenny decided that they would go fishin' just in back of the complex. They didn't have much bait so we were trying all sorts of things from bread to avocado to all sorts of fruit. We found that mango works the best cause that is what was used for all four fish. Jason caught two and Kenny caught two so it was perfect. There was a really pretty one that Kenny caught and when Jason was gutting the fish it bit Jason and practically made him bleed!!! That sucker had a full set of teeth it was the craziest thing. Hawaii is just a great place to go to relax and have fun. Although I have never been to any of the other Islands, I really like the Big Island cause it's so laid back and there aren't very many tourists. Plus you have a variety of places to choose from. Maybe someday we'll try the other Islands but for now I'll stick with Kona. I know that I didn't include any pictures of flowers, I absolutely love Hawaiian flowers. I have so many pictures of flowers that I'll just have to do a random post of all the pictures of flowers. Alright, well this post is kinda just thrown together but I just wanted to get it on the blog :)