Hawaii Post #2

Our favorite thing we did in Maui was the Road to Hana. We had so much fun finding waterfalls and seeing the beautiful scenery. The only hard part was when we were done we had to come all the way down the road with out stopping, all 636 turns. Needless to say we were a little nauseated by the end.

The Three Bears Falls

This first waterfall is the Three bears falls. It was really fun. Russ and I made our way over boulders into the pool to get under the waterfall. Noelle was making her way and slipped and fell on a rock and hit her head and cut her hand open. She stayed with my mom and Alyssa on the bank. Alyssa was such a trooper. It started raining but she was having so much fun picking up the rocks.

The first waterfall we actually tried to find was 4 falls, which we had directions from our Guide book. We had to hike through a bamboo forest and then across a ditch. Well we could only find the ditch and not the stream that would led us to the waterfalls. We ended up walking through a cow pasture but got this cool pictures. After an hour of searching we gave up. We were so disappointed that we didn't find it, that night we looked on the internet and found more instructions on how to get there. My mom, Russ, Alyssa and I went back a few days later to find it. That adventure will be another post.

We stopped at the "Garden of Eden" this was really beautiful. Many different flowers and trees. This one we are standing next to is a rainbow eucalyptuses tree.

We also stopped in a little town to get Banana bread and pineapple. The picture above is Russ after he climbed over lava rocks.

Hawaii post #1

I am going to do a few posts about Hawaii since we did so much and have so many pictures. First thing was that I was terrified of the flight. I thought Alyssa would be awful. Well to my great surprise she was wonderful. She was very tired and ready for a nap on the way there. With the help of our friend benadryl she slept from take off to landing. I had debated a long time about giving her benadryl or not since it is not approved for children under 4. I found an old dosing chart for her age. Benadryl use to be approved for children 3 months and above. I gave her about 1/2 of what her dose would have been. She had no problems and slept wonderful. It was a good choice. But of course she woke up at 4 a.m. Hawaii time the first few nights.

We loved the beach. Alyssa was very timid at first, she loved the sand and would make me get the water in her bucket and did not want to touch the water. One time Russ was helping her in the water and a big wave came and covered her, he pulled her up. She was a little scared but okay.
For the first picture, Alyssa was loving climbing in and out of her stroller. she decided to climb in the basket underneath and couldn't get out with out my help, I had to take a picture first.