Babymoon Fun!

Our Babymoon has come and gone, we had a great time in Kauai.  This was our first trip to the garden island.  To keep it so beautiful and green, it rains a lot.  The peak there, Mt Waialeale, is one of the wettest spots on earth.  So, it rained quite a bit, but that didn't stop us from getting out and hiking and going to the beach.  We just had to deal with little rain showers or down pours that would last 5 minutes or so at a time.  It made trails really muddy and slippery, so when we hiked, we went slow.  All the hikes are pretty difficult in Kauai, especially when it's muddy...and your pregnant.  Besides hiking, we were able to snorkel, go chocolate tasting and eat lots of local fruit.  I really miss those delicious lilikoi (passion fruit).

View of Hanalei Bay from our hike, Okolehao Trail

Tunnels Beach

Our tropical fruit from a fruit stand and farmer's market

Chocolate tasting on a chocolate farm.

Hiking the Kalalau Trail

Snorkeling at Ke'e Beach

Sleeping Monk Seal

Waimea Canyon

Lookout at end of Awa'awapuhi Trail

Photos of Our Belize Trip

We went to Belize for a friend's wedding in Hopkins and stayed at the Almond Beach Resort.  We decided to go a few days early and stay on Caye Caulker to go scuba diving on the barrier reef.  We stayed at the Seaside Cabanas there.  We really loved Caye Caulker.  

Here are some of my favorite photos of Belize.  We really, really liked it there.  It's so laid back, everyone is friendly, and even the food we had was awesome.  The rest of the photos are on our web album:  Belize April 2010.  Enjoy!!

More details of our trip will show up on our travel blog within the next couple of weeks if anyone is interested.

Fresh Fish Selection for Dinner.

Walking Along Front Street in Caye Caulker.

Beautiful Blue Caribbean Water

Lots of Breeze, Biking, Birds, Piers, and Boats

The Motto of Caye Caulker.

Our Hotel (room where the balcony is on the upper left).

Blue Hole swimming hole.

Waiting to go on our second dive on the southern barrier reef.

Relaxing on the pier.

Mike was a groomsman in our friends' wedding.

Oh, and we snorkeled with nurse sharks!

Mike's Family Visit

Last week, we had Mike's mom and sis here for a visit. They had fun going to the beach everyday and hanging out in San Diego. We took them to the La Jolla Cove for snorkeling on Sunday. The water was freezing, which is why we are all in wetsuits here.

Catalina Island

We went to Catalina Island with our friends, Zac and Jama, on Saturday. It's about an hour and a half boat ride from one of the LA area ports. We had lunch and went to a beach club where we snorkeled and relaxed in the sun most of the afternoon. We later checked out Avalon and had a few drinks at a local bar, Luau Larry's, where Mike got his cool straw hat. For dinner, we went to a little place on the pier that had fresh swordfish that was absolutely awesome.









More pictures here.