Splash Pad

Holding hands with her best friend

Today I took Alyssa to the Splash Pad. It is a public park that has a man made waterfall that flows into a river that the kids play in. It also has a spray up fountain.  We went with Alyssa's BBF Emma and her mom. It was a lot of fun. It was fun to do something after work with Alyssa. Especially because we had a rough weekend. Alyssa was sick with a high fever all weekend. It was stressful on me because she has never had that high of a fever and she didn't have any other symptoms so I didn't know what was making her so sick. This morning I was so happy that she didn't wake up in the middle of the night with a fever. Today she was fever free. I never thought I would be so happy to see the number 98!  Anyway she was feeling good enough to go to the park, yea!

Na'ili'ili Haele falls i.e 4 waterfalls

Trekking through the bamboo forest

This was absolutley my favorite thing we did in Maui. On the other post I talked about how we tried to find this hike but were unsuccessful. This time we tried to follow the directions to a tee. We also looked up satilite image to help us and googled info. Well we entered the bamboo about 200 feet down from the last place we entered. This made all the difference. It was a trail that lead directly to a stream. The first waterfall was pretty dry, only a trickle so we kept going through the bamboo forest, over the river and rocks to the second waterfall. A perfect hawaiian waterfall. There was even a "naturalist" who decided to take her top off and bathe in the sun.

2nd falls

third falls

Alyssa playing at 3rd falls with the locals =)

The next fall was tricker to get to. We had to scale a 12 foot rock face with a 1 year old. There was a rope to hold on to, so we passed her up as we climbed up. The third fall was actually the coolest. A huge pool. We meet some locals playing in the water and they let Alyssa play on their float.
Then my mom watched Alyssa and Russ and I went to the 4th falls. This required us to climb up a latter then bolder hop up a stream. Then swim about 150 feet up a stream to a tiny waterfall that we had to climb up, the across more boulders which lead to the 4th falls. It is the highest of all the falls. It was a small flow but in pictures when the flow is large it is amazing. We also found a geo-cache. we just signed the book and didn't take anything. On the way back down we had to cliff jump off the waterfalls into the lake below to get back down. It was so fun! We don't have pictures of the 4th falls because of the swimming aspect. Of course while Mom and Dad were hiking Alyssa decided to pop. I did bring an extra diaper but no wipes. So I used a large left as a wipe and that was that. It made it a complete experience. Alyssa did very well on the hike and loved playing in the water. She kept wanting to get back in.

2nd falls

1/2 Marathon

I did a half marathon yesterday. Russ was suppose to do it with me, but because of his GMAT studying he didn't have time to finish training. My goal was to run it in under 2 hrs. I did the Provo Trail half. It is a very pretty run. I was doing really good and felt really good until about mile 10. I was right no track to make my goal. Then the fatigue really started to set in. It was then all mental. I kept telling my self keep going I will make my goal. I did not walk the whole run and I crossed the finish line at 1:59.54. I was so happy, I did it. This is almost 20 minutes faster than my last 1/2 marathon 4 years ago. Yesterday I was very sore, but today I am twice as sore. I can barely walk. It is not as bad as when I ran a marathon ( that pain was indescribable). Every time I go down the stairs I say ouch, and now Alyssa is copying me and saying that too. Overall I am happy I did it and VERY happy I accomplished my goal.