Kauai, Hawaii Day 1

Since I have to start somewhere to catch up, I decided to start with the easiest....our trip to Hawaii. I decided I needed a trip to Hawaii and since Brett is graduating, I jumped at the chance to make this his graduation trip. We wanted to go in January, but with his torturous Bar prep class that starts 2 days after Christmas we decided to head out over his fall break. I label this day 1, but it really is day 2. We had a rough start that I forgot about until just typing this. We left SLC around 11:00, got into LAX and were supposed to leave there around 2:00. Five hours later and a measly $6 voucher for each of us, we finally boarded the plane. I guess I should be grateful Delta decided to fix the door latch so all of us passengers weren't sucked out into infinity and beyond, but the wait was brutal and we lost a night in paradise.

Because of the time difference, I found myself up with the crowing of roosters, literally around 5:30 am. Then we happened upon these on our walk. Wandering around. Everywhere. We later learned that during a hurricane back in the 90's, roosters and chickens who were "cock fighters" escaped they rudimentary home to roam Kauai quite freely. They are known as the Kauai chickens and apparently are not very good to eat. I was told it would take a full day to marinate them long enough to even make them remotely soft enough to chew. Sounds appetizing.

I accidentally woke Brett up trying to figure out the Internet and we decided to take the chance to explore the resort grounds. Absolutely breathtaking!

This is a view of the beach from our room. We were right on the beach and had Kauai Lagoons golf course very close by. So, Brett being the avid golfer that he is, just had to find the world famous "HOLE 16".

I realize this picture doesn't do the hole justice, and I admit it was a very pretty hole, but it just a golf hole! We continued exploring the grounds and came upon this crazy spider. I can't believe how hard it is to see it in this picture, but it was one of the craziest spiders I have ever seen. It looked like it only had 4 legs, and they were so long! After googling it I learned that it was just a black and yellow garden spider, writing spider, or corn spider that is COMMON to the US of A.

We found this fun little cove with warning signs everywhere that you could be sucked out into the ocean and DIE if you tried to swim in the water, so we observed it from the rocks. We were so exhausted after our tour of the grounds that we decided to take a long nap. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and enjoying the POOL.