Kauai, Hawaii

 Tiffany is the sweetest ever and invited me to join her and her family in Kauai for a week. I was super excited and felt like it took forever for this trip to arrive {like always...}

The trip included her mom & dad, grandma & grandpa, brother Chris, Tiffany, and myself.

 Her parents rented this amazing house right on the beach with our own pool, it was filled with ocean water and had little black crabbies running in and out {I screamed my head off when one ran across my foot}. Every room had a beautiful view of the ocean. We would sit on our back porch watching whales and sea turtles play in the water. Amazing!

On Sunday we went to church then went for a tour at the Allerton National Botanical Gardens. They gave us lots of history details about the Gardens and each area had different "rooms" with names I don't remember. But the art of the garden was beautiful, everything was perfect down to the detail. The gardens are kept a certain way so they look the exact same way they did 50 years ago, and were used for extravagant parties.

 Multiple movies were filmed in the gardens, and the entire island, including Jurassic Park.

  

Monday

Waimea Canyon - The Grand Canyon of Hawaii

Tuesday

 Tiff's cute mom was pumped to do the zip lines while we were there. They were so fun, the longest one was 1/2 mile long.

 Wednesday

 Tiffany and I kayaked up the Wailua River to the Secret Waterfall. We laughed so hard the whole time, struggled with steering and zig-zagged our way up the river, and remembered how little muscle we have as a group.

 We did get in the waterfall, but none of the pictures worked out except for when we both fell at the same time and scraped our knees! Special friends for life!

 My dad and Step-mom planned a trip overlapping with mine, a few miles up the beach from where we were staying, Small world! So we met up and swapped adventures stories over dinner.

Spouting Horn

 Tree Tunnel

Friday

Tiffany and I went on a Galentines Snorkel party up the beach, it didn't go well and we ended up sitting on the beach watching old people snorkel and giggling. 

Saturday - Valentines Day

 We had to fly home and had a long layover in Oahu so we got a romantic dinner for 7!

This trip was so fun and perfectly timed. I love to travel with people I love!

Thank you Bonham family for the wonderful experience. I loved every single second of this getaway/escape in paradise!