Hawaii - Day 7 (Thursday) - Waimea Valley and our 4th Anniversary

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I've had to take a blogging break this week. We have all come down with nasty colds which has taken its toll on all of us.

On the seventh day on our Hawaiian vacation and our last full day on Kauai we headed south to explore the Waimea Valley. It has been described as the Grand Canyon of Hawaii.

We debated on spending the day by the pool or site seeing. We decided to go site seeing and make the most of our last day.

Before heading out on another adventure, we had a great breakfast at our hotel. Here are a few photos from the restaurant.

This is looking up Waimea Canyon from the beginning of the road. The road was 18 miles one way to the very end.
These are sugar cane fields, some of the last ones in Hawaii.

I loved this waterfall. It wasn't on the map OR a "must see" in the book, but I loved the color and the contrast between the water and the dirt.

Here is Waimea Canyon. It was very large and beautiful, but hard to see. The storm clouds hang out here and so it was always a gamble if we were going to see much.

Here is an example of the mass abundance of chickens and roosters, everywhere!

This is the very end of Waimea canyon. We should be able to look over this edge and see the NaPali coast. No luck today.

When we got back to the hotel, we had 1 hour to go to the pool before it was time to get ready for dinner. The pool was great and Oliver loved it. Keith and I took turns going down the slide, which was SO FUN!!! Oliver didn't quite make the height requirement. Maybe next time, buddy.
I thought I took more picture of the pool, but I guess not. This is one of the hidden hot tubs.
Sept 25, it was our 4 year anniversary.

We went to dinner at the Beach House (below) in PoiPu. It was right on the water and we could watch the surfers from our table.

http://www.the-beach-house.com/

According to the hostess, we had the best seat in the house. Maybe she says that to everyone, but we really did have a great seat. We think we can thank our travel agent, Jeff, for that.
http://www.all-inclusivevacations.com/home/ View to the Left of our table. You can see some people in front of the palm tree enjoying the nice sunset.

Sunset Photo Moment


View to the Right of our Table.

Dinner was excellent. Everything had been caught fresh THAT DAY!!! I don't know that we've ever had fresher fish. The service was excellent, the view was breath taking and reminiscing the past four years was priceless.

Earlier in the day, Keith was having cold symptoms. We had stopped to get his some Dayquil, but once dinner was over, he thought he was done for also. We had to pay for the nanny for a minimum of 3 hours and we were back in 2.5 hours. He didn't care. That evening he had a high temperature (not that we had a thermometer handy) and felt ill. He was ready for bed, early. I didn't think it was too bad since it was the season premier of Gray's Anatomy. WOO HOO!!! Keith fought this cold the rest of the vacation and all of the next week. He refers to it as the Polynesian Curse. He thinks it is because he was laughing at the hula dancers at the Luau. Maybe So!

Can't get enough of Waimea Valley and the Hawaiin Sunset in PoiPu, go to:
http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=19ph730x.8qtm16s5&x=0&y=-cpp9le&localeid=en_US