The Young Experience: honeymoon

Luke and I spent a wonderfully relaxing and rejuvenating 8 days on Kauai, known as the garden island of Hawaii. We stayed in Kapaa which was a great central location enabling us to easily travel north or south to Princeville and Poipu and really explore the island. Kauai is a few hours ahead of California time and I don’t think we ever really adjusted to the time change. We woke each morning before the sun and fell asleep each night before 10:00! The condo we stayed at was about a 2 minute walk to the beach so we started each day by making some coffee and walking, coffee cups in hand, to the beach to watch the sunrise.

We did so much and it is such a beautiful island that it is hard to pick just one favorite thing of the trip. Highlights include taking a dip in Queen’s Bath, snorkeling with a turtle, hiking the Na Pali coast to a secret beach and the biggest waterfall I’ve ever seen, taking a muddy ATV tour and seeing a wild pig, renting stand up paddle boards and trying to catch a wave, local bananas, kalua pork, Duane’s Ono Burger, Chicken in a Barrel, hiking in the pouring rain and praying the lightening storm didn’t get too close to us, running along the Kapaa coast, river crossings and muddy hikes, Kauai happy hours, going directly from the beach to the rental car drop off to the airport (still in our wet bathing suits!). I guess pretty much everything we did on the trip was a highlight!