Exploring

One of the things that Cody loves about vacation is getting to explore.  He hates to read tourists flyers that suggest the hot spots every traveler from out of town should visit.  He would rather ask the locals where they eat dinner, and find the hidden gems on his own.  He really should have been more open with me about his expectations back when we were dating.  You see, I think he thought he’d be getting a co-pilot when chose me to be his wife.  He got a wife, all right, but I am not the person you want sitting next to you telling you which way to turn.  Even if I am holding a map, and a GPS device, and the directions are already loaded into that GPS device.  I’m just not wired that way.  I still joke that sometimes I get lost in our subdivision.  I only wish it were just a joke.  I might be able to get you from Point A to Point B, but I cannot promise we won’t take a back road or two, and I can almost guarantee that we will get lost at least once on our journey.  It’s cute that my husband stills thinks I have potential.  It’s amusing that he still thinks that one day, one day I might learn how to read a map or get my bearings without having to study one for half an hour.  

In spite of my navigation incompetency, we had a blast exploring Oahu.  We drove all the way around the island in our little white Jeep, and were truly amazed at how much beauty could exist in one small place.

 

We hiked up Diamond Head and imagined what it would have been like to look out over the top of the crater, searching for incoming ships, ready to defend our land. 

We were literally blown away by the wind tunnel at Nu’anu Pali Look-out.

In awe, we looked out over the city of Honolulu.

I was weak in the knees as I stood on the shore and watched my husband lunge off 
"Jump Rock" at North Shore. 

 After he jumped, I read this sign.  Then he jumped again.

We were deeply moved when we visited Pearl Harbor and looked down on the sunken Arizona, and all who were buried underwater that fateful day. 

 

 

 

 

 We snorkeled and swam through the coral reef at Hanauma Bay.  
I kept joking with Cody that I was swimming with my dinner.  
I know.  Kinda creepy.

 

 

 

 

  

We covered a lot of ground in our little two-door Jeep.  We left no corner undiscovered, and thoroughly enjoyed each mile we drove, each step we hiked, and every memory we took with us when we left.