HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The House vs. The Condo

I definitely liked the condo better. The condo and the house both had excellent beds, well-stalked kitchens, and great service, but the house had a pest problem. On the second day we stayed in the house, we found a cockroach in the bathtub. The exterminator came and sprayed the next morning, but we kept seeing roaches throughout our entire stay at the house.

Food

We had many delicious foods in Kauai, but my favorites were the fruit and the plate lunches. We ate mostly tropical fruit: papayas, mangoes, mini-bananas, chicos, passion fruit, guava, and lilikoi. The four plate lunches I had were roast duck, Kahlua pork/lau-lau, short ribs, and ahi tuna. Each plate lunch came with rice and Macaroni salad.

Hikes

We went on two hikes in Kauai. The first one was a six mile hike. We walked through mud and steep hills to reach a swamp in the mountains. The second hike was much milder. We walked about 1.5 miles in the jungle, to reach a waterfall. Both hikes were near Mount Wai'ale'ale, the wettest place on earth.

Beaches

If we were not on a hike, we were at the beach. The beaches in Kauai had crystal clear water, and vast coral reefs. They also had no trash in the sand, whatsoever. My favorite beach we went to had large rocks sticking out of the water. My dad, my sisters, and I swam out to the rocks and climbed on the rocks.