make caroline mad, get a slushi on your head

saturday morning we left earlyish to go spy on our secret hawaii project called the haiku stairs.  we wanted to scope out parking and access and coincidentally ran into some hikers who had just finished the trek!  we're pretty pumped about this one for later in the week.  i know you're on the edge of your seat.

next we went to "see" the chinaman's hat island.  really does look like a hat!



now, i thought we were just going to gaze at this lovely island from the beach.  take some pics, walk along the beach, and move on to our next activity.  however.  i'm on my honeymoon with logan so many of you can probably guess where our morning actually went.  yep, we swam/waded the 600 yards out to the island and climbed to the top.



please look closely and note how steep that stupid hat is.  worst ever.  i was SO afraid.



there was a really nice view at the top, i will admit this.  however, one cannot miss what one doesn't know, so i would have been just as fine not going.  also, when my husband makes me do things i really don't want to do, punishment is exacted.


(view from the top of chinaman's hat.)

we drove along the island to la'ie point which is a giant rock that has a hole in middle of it thanks to a powerful tsunami.  water - 1, rock - 0.

we lunched at romy's shrimp shack on the side of the road.  the north shore is famous for it's little shrimp operations not unlike huntsville's famous taco trucks.  tasty!  we had spicy shrimp and brown rice with some pineapple.  i highly recommend it.  logan does not.

we spent the rest of the afternoon driving to famous north shore beaches like sunset and pipeline.  these beaches are famous for the amazing surfing and the vans triple crown surfing competition is actually going on this week!  we tried to catch a round of that, but the competitors wait for the best conditions to get scored so there is no set time for competing.  we still saw some cool surfers, though!  at the end of the activity portion of our day we stopped for shave ice's.



i got a "hawaiian" and logan got a "north shore."  i got about halfway through mine then dumped it on logan's head when he wasn't looking.  that's what you get for making me climb tall things that i hate.  sleep with one eye open, kennedy.