Yesterday we got up early and drove a couple of hours over to the volcanoes national park. On the way we passed many coffee plantations and macadamia nut orchards it was a winding and beautiful drive. As we traveled further south we passed a few areas where the lava had flowed many years ago and left big blackened lava fields. Once we got to the big volcano we took a drive to see the biggest crater that had sulphurous smoke spewing out of it, then drove down t...

Today was our five year wedding anniversary. We got up and went for a little run, we weren't the only ones as the Hawaii marathon is next week and as kona is the home of the famous ironman there is triathletes training everywhere. We grabbed a locally produced coffee and then some breakfast then went for a swim in the pool. We cruised around the village and paddled at the beach and had a really good shave ice which is like a snow cone but better. We headed ov...

What an incredible few days we've had in Hawaii! It took us a whole day of traveling on Wednesday to get from New York to Seattle to Honolulu where we stayed for the night before flying to Kailua Kona on Thursday morning. We grabbed a rental car and found our hotel which is right in the middle of the tourist/shops area and opposite the beach. We spent a couple of hours wandering around checking things out and shopping then got changed and headed over to the di...