We were up before 7am to finish packing and tidying, checked out and hit the road to Lihue at 8am. We didn't need to be so early as we had an 11:30am departure, but it beats being late! We handed back 'Julia', our trusty orange Jeep then got the shuttle back to the airport terminal, through security and grabbed a coffee at Starbucks - not something I'd recommend, it was dreadful. We have yet to find anywhere that gets the concept of the perfect cappuccino! On...

Up at 7am, out the door at 8:20am - not a bad effort with two kids reluctant to get moving! We drove non-stop from Princeville to 'the other side', i.e. Waimea on the West Side of Kauai, a ridiculously long trip of... 2 hours. Hey, we live in Australia, after 2 hours driving we're just getting started! The plan was to check out Waimea Canyon and the view at the top, then take our time visiting all the little stops all the way back to Princeville, doing the sce...

Cloudy? Lets call that 'torrential rain with a chance of blue sky' instead? Definitely the wettest day since we arrived, in that there were more torrential spells than showers or clear skies! Given that someone (who we shall call Shane ) was a little 'under the weather' after last night's run in with the Patron and Coronas, we decided against an outing that involves dirt roads and requires a 4x4, with all the rain it probably wasn't a good idea on our own! A ...

A slow start to what turned out to be a totally awesome day! Our only plan was a 'surf date' with Shane (our Wyndham sales guy from the other day) in the afternoon, so we took our time getting moving. I think we finally convinced Leo to eat breakfast and get dressed around 11am :) We took the time to watch the final race of the America's Cup, sadly it wasn't to be for Team New Zealand, but we all know they'll never give up, red socks and all - always proud to ...

Many rain-themed songs running through my head today, ranging from CCR to Dragon to Prince. Its probably a good thing I love rain :) A 'no plans' day today, which turned out to be a pretty good option as its rained on and off all day with slightly cooler temps than our first few days. We all seemed to be a bit slow and lethargic, so a few movies were the order of the day. By mid afternoon Leo had had enough of nothing much (and we'd all had enough of him wind...