Since the winter semester was finally over, Wolfgang and I decided that we needed to play hard for the week that we had off from school....so we did. First we rented a car (for super cheap!) and headed down to Honolulu with our friend Janelle to the zoo and to the beloved Cheesecake Factory...Mmm, then sent Janelle on her way back home for the summer. The following day we went back down to the Honolulu area to a place called Hanauma Bay with our friends Scott, Ben, and Jessica. Hanauma Bay is this awesome huge bay (go figure) GREAT for snorkeling. We saw all sorts of fish of different sizes and colors, it was great. I was wishing to see a sea turtle, but no luck. 
In the morning a few days later in the Honolulu airport getting ready to depart for Maui, Wolfgang and i were confused as to why we couldn't find our flight number on the departure screen, and why our terminal looked so empty. After looking closely at our ticket, I found that Wolfgang had accidently made the reservations for 9:58 PM instead of 9:58 AM....
Apparently he's still learning English. ;)
Luckily, there was another flight an hour later so we just hopped onto that one. So for 2 nights and 3 days, we toured the whole island, quite literally, with an exception of one road or two. Good thing the rental was very very good on gas mileage, because the gas prices were at $4.21/gal. yikes. Plus, islands are only so big anyway, but we still put about 400 miles on it...
Some of the things we did there were go to several beaches, (of course), went to a beautiful nature park called "Iao Point,"
drive the scenic/well known "highway to Hana"(which includes 57 small bridges, windy roads, and some places large enough only for one car to fit through),
and also visited Haleakala National Park. Mom and Dad, I think you should transfer...?!
(Two of the "seven pools" at the NP, we swam around in the pool of the bottom waterfall)
In one part of the park, it had a peak at 10,000ft where we were told to watch the sunrise;
I hadn't been so cold in several months! it was about 43 degrees! simply ridiculous. Not knowing we would be experiencing such temperture change, we were definitely not prepared for that, but it was fun nontheless. Here are a few more pictures from our great vacation:
Wolfgang's first Krispy Kreme experience; he's converted.
Great sunset pic that Wolfgang took
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