Hawaii cliffs and snorkeling.

 This morning we woke up and headed across the island to some cliff jumping. A place called spitting caves. Which you can only jump if the water isn't too choppy, if you don't want to die. Just kidding, but we happened to be there on a good day where the water was on the more calm side. Not very comforting still. haha

 i mean .. who gets to live here?!?! Its just nor fair. I bet its Ushers winter house.

 first to go was a girl we didn't know. 

 .. then the boys in our group stood there gaining the courage to do it since a girl could do it. 

Pugmire of course of the first to try it.

  After some cliff jumping we headed to a great snorkeling place. This was the cooooolest... paid about $7.50 to go to the bay area where there is alot of sea life. The goal was to see a sea turtle, but we never did. The colorful fish were pretty incredible though, and were way close to our faces.

we got a little creative in our sand sculptures. Isn't this hilarious?

 We had to lend alot of it to this girl Quinn that started snorkeling with us. She traveled here alone from Portland, so she spent the afternoon with us, and was the brains of the people sand sculptures. 

She had this tattoo on her arm that means "away from home" (technically "away from cities") but i thought it was really rad tattoo, along with stories of some of her travels.

 Someone thought it was a good idea to attempt a pyramid with the group.. are side of the only one that stayed up, the other half fell, some face planted and ate some delicious sand. ha

 This was my first time snorkeling, and it won't be my last! Ever tropical place I go to from now on i gotta do it, next time i WILL find a sea turtle, and make it my friend. 

 This is only like half of the group that came from Utah State. Another 15 or so flew in this evening.

  The group today was so fun... we broke out in a dance party in some parking lot. It lasted a good ten minutes maybe with music blasting from one of the cars. Nate (right) is one of my favorite dancers, this kid knows how to move!

 could possibly be the best photo of myself. 

Ended the day playing football, frisbee and hands up stands up til it got too dark.

Packed day! but I love days like this sometimes where you barely have a second to realize how much you've done. 

Hawaii Day 1-3

 

 Feels good to be back on the adventure train. I love getting on a plane knowing im going somewhere that I've never seen. Thinking about it gets me giddy inside. A couple weeks ago I decided I needed a break from the real world. Post graduation life is harder to take breaks than I thought it would be. Luckily, I work at two fantabulous places that gave me a week off without any fuss. shweet. So I impulsively bought a ticket to Hawaii with a huge group of people that go to Utah State or are USU alum. Aggies just love eachother, old or new, forever and ever, its contagious.

First couple days we spent getting to know the island. Which you can drive across in like 2 hours. Saw 3 different kinds of sands within miles.. I loved that. 

 old friends and new. Matt, Ben, and Fish.

 oh food. lots of really nice sticky rice and macaroni salad.  not complaining. 

 Acai bowl. acai berry mix, granola, berries, bananas, honey. 

bees knees.

Come to momma. 

We lived in this beauty the first couple of days. Its called the farm, because its on a farm. Naturally. ha its got 3 bedrooms, a ton of couches, a few futons, and 4 hammocks to go around. total of about 15 people sleeping on every surface of this place. 

There are random chickens and birds roaming everywhere, and cows and wild hogs. It feels like we're out in the forest, but also a farm/ranch. Its a weird atmosphere that im totally eating up and loving. I mean the owner of the house brings us fresh eggs every morning. Talk about hospitality.

 View looking off the porch.

 No need for alarm clocks in this house, We have a friendly rooster around the property helping us out with that.

 Today was rainy for majority of the day til the late afternoon when it cleared up. So we went to Waimea Beach where there was MASSIVE waves. Kids, these aren't California waves.. these are monsters. We weren't allowed to get in the water. The only people in the water were people that were at least a couple years experienced in these conditions of waves. One of our guys tried to boogie board but the lifeguard got on his megaphone and specifically pointed him out and said, "uh, sir in the red shorts, why don't you just go ahead and turn around and come back to shore because you can't handle these conditions." hahahah us main land noobs.

 One of my buddies from back home came out to visit his cousin, so they came to hang with us for the day.

It was finally time to hook up the slack line to palm trees. yes please.

 We met some other groups of people we didn't know that joined us. It was definitely a highlight of my day. 

Its already going by too fast. And I can't believe its taken me this long to come here. 

p.s. aloe lotion is life saving.