Moving to Paradise: Chasing Rainbows

For the first time since we started working here in Maui, we had an entire day off together!! Jon didn't have to work that morning or that night so we had the whole day together!! So we did something that we've been wanting to do since we moved-- go on a hike!

We started out the day at one of Jon's places of work- The Plantation House- for breakfast. It was an amazing breakfast at that!

View from entryway

Gorgeous view for breakfast. Great food too (for half off!!!)

We went on the Village Walking Trails in Kapalua which about 10 minutes away! A friend of mine emailed me a bunch of great hikes around Maui. Many were quite a drive and others required fairly dangerous roads to get there. And we wanted to be back in time for dinner. The Village Walking Trails are structured around an old golf course that they let nature take over. We walked the Lake Loop Trail that was 3.6 miles. The trail is paved, which is nice, but it was deemed "difficult" for the many steep hills. The pavement is seemingly more dangerous because it rained most of the time and made it fairly slippery! Here is a photo story of our journey:

View during hike. That may look like pretty sky. No, that's ocean then the island Molokai, then the clouds and sky

Tripod for the Camera worked out well for us :)

Dancing while waiting for Jonny to set up camera...

"Yeah Brah" is what his shirt says... bahaha

Stairwell overgrown by nature

Hidden meadow off main trail...

Dancing in the meadow. (I like to dance in God's beauty)

One-walled house

We nicknamed it the Trail of Butterflies. There were butterflies everywhere,
dancing together and hangin on the plants

The trail was in Kapalua. And after going on the Trail of Butterflies,
we figured out why Kapalua's mascot is a butterfly

During the hike, it rained almost the whole time. But it was light and soft so it felt nice. Almost whenever there's a long period of rain, there'll be a gorgeous rainbow to follow. We drove around chasing the rainbow for the perfect picture

AND WE FOUND THE END OF THE RAINBOW!!
It ended in this valley right in front of us! Sorry... no gold. Or Leprechauns.

An interesting little story: I went with a new friend to her church on the other side of the island. The church group hangs out afterwards and I saw someone I recognized slightly. Sarah introduces us because this other person was from Sacramento as well. She says you look really framilliar! And I said ya, you do to. Come to find out we went to the same High School! AND the same Elementry School! AND she was only one year younger than me!! HAHA! Crazy connection made in a random place very far away from the source!

BUGS:

Being on a tropical island, bugs are aplenty! You know when you feel a tickle and by reflex you brush your hand against your skin just in case it is a bug, but it rarely ever is. Well, here, more often than not, it actually is. Usually it's a gnat. But I have itched my face and looked down at my finger at a squished mosquito and my blood all over my finger. And mosquito bites pop up randomly every week.

There are ants galore as well! I ate an apple in the car. Went into walmart. Came back to my car. My wrapped up apple core had ants all over it in that short amount of time. WHAAAT?! In a car?? It's crazy. The ant problem does keep us up on cleaning better here than in Sac. (Food wise that is)

I take my contacts out before I shower at night because they suction to my eyeball for some reason if I try to take them out after the shower. SO blind as a bat, I'm showering. And I grab the shampoo from the top shelf and something fairly large falls on my toes. It was a tanish-green and slimy. Ughhhh. It pops up and starts jumping everywhere. I FREAK.
"JON!! JON!! WHAT IS THAT?!! JON!"
He's just laughing.
"AHHH!! I CAN'T SEE!! JONNNN"
"What is going on in there....?" (He was busy eating. He won't interrupt that activity very easily)
"GET IN HERE!!"
He's still laughing.
"JON! I can't get it I don't have anything, and I can't get out to get anything cuz I'm blindddd!"
Finally he deems it necessary to get up and look.
"HELP!" The lizard/gecko thing is hopping around by the other bottles.
He looks at it, laughs and walks away.
"JON!!!! WTH! GET IT OUTTTT!"
He takes his time and gets a tupperware container to trap the insect
"HELP!"
...
Finally he took care of it while laughing at me.

Picture Story Tidbits:

Jonny found me ADULT gummy vitamins!! I will definitely take them now!!

Got a new dress for my uniform at Hula Grill. I couldn't imagine working in a dress before.
A sigh of frustration arises when something falls on the ground but for the most part it's alright!