January's trip to Hawaii, part II

  Some more pictures from when I visited Eric in Hawaii in January:

             You know me and trees...

 The water is usually very blue in Hawaii.  With the huge waves, some of the water was more brown... I hunted out the clear blue water though.

 Sun over the mountains...

  The waves were so big that they knocked us down, even Eric!  Wow.

I like that the vegetation is so varied in Hawaii.

 A closer look at those trees...  Um, I may have been driving and playing photographer with the blackberry...

Being chauffeured to Sunset Beach...

 Hannah.  Happy, relaxed, and comfortable.

 SO ready to get some sun!

 Yup, my boyfriend is super cool.

Big waves.

 There's the beach!

 This was a great beach to pick up little round bead-like shells.

 Ooo... kissy face!

 Two happy sunset watchers.

 Wait'n on the sunset.  Just hanging out and talking a bit.

 More big waves.  I love the ocean!

 They were quite serious about not going in the water.

 Getting closer to sunset.

 More trees!

 The sun, setting.

 Watching the sunset... and watching Eric.  Tee he he.

 Our feet.  Not fancy, but comfortable.

Are you look'n at ME?

 Hannah at the beach.

 Why does my beach buddy always take this picture?  I never know until later...

 Going...

 Going...

 Going...

There were others out on this beach, too.

 Mountains not too far from Eric's house.

 The blue blue water.  This was at the beach I went to most days when Eric had to go to work.

 I could go in this water, carefully.  I like the mountains right by the ocean.

 Beautiful.

 Relaxing.  Soothing.  Still some serious waves, don't be fooled.

 Neat clouds on the drive home.

 Looks like it is gonna storm...

 Driving to "town" (Honolulu) by myself...

 Another tree, of course.

 Getting closer to the ocean.

January's trip to Hawaii, part I

  In mid-January, we got a Winter Break.  I had a few days off from school/work; but since I also have weekends off, I quickly figured out that if I just took one more day off, I could have NINE days in a row off.  Hooray!  I went to Hawaii to visit Eric, by way of Japan.  Here are some of the pics from my trip...

  I do have a bit of a strange fascination with trees... but this one is super cool!

 My handsome Eric, driving us to the beach...

 Hawaii.

 January is surfing season in Hawaii.  Some of the beaches we went to had some HUGE waves, where only professionals could surf and the rest of us couldn't go into the water.  It was still cool to see though.  

 We looked at waves by the rocks.  (um, a little camera issue cut some of the picture from the bottom and put it on top in some of these photos)

 The waves make little waterfalls over some of the rocks.

 Some of the waves for 15 feet high!

 Eric looking at the ocean.  Two things I love...

 Can't you just hear the roar of the waves? 

  Hawaii has mountains and the ocean and trees... and beautiful, warm sunshine!

 Sunrays over the mountains.

 Monday, we went hiking up this mini mountain. Eric is a wonderful hiking buddy!

 Hiking was like going through the woods with some small cliffs.  It was extra slippery because it had rained for days.  We went through mud.

 Some parts of the trail were wider.

 We took some extra breaks for my knee.  Eric is very patient with me.

 View of the ocean from part-way up the mountain.

 We stopped to look at a little snail on the trail. Awl, how cute.  I named him Sammy.

 Take'n a closer look...  (now that's a handsome face!)

Yo, it was a bit hot.  However, I am thankful for the warmth of Hawaii, especially in January!