A Wedding, A Jump, and A Couple Beaches!

Shawn's wedding was on April Fool's Day and she asked that we not post pictures before she got the professional ones back.  Since I was in it, I don't have too many pictures, so, it's not hard to honor that request!  I did take a few of the family though and thought I'd share them at least.  Some of these were done with the iphones, so, thats why the quality issues.

This one was actually taken at the rehearsal dinner, but, its the only good one I got of the two Will's!  They were up and running the whole night of the wedding doing video camera work.

This may be the ONLY shot we've got of Liv with her halo on that we made such a huge effort to get, she's so uncooperative when she makes up her mind!!

It was such a miserably muggy day with absolutely no air movement, the kids both took their wedding clothes off immediately afterwards.

This poor guy got washed up on the rocks with one big wave, while we were having dinner, and had to work his way back to the water...pretty cool though!

 Owen was running around playing so much, this is the only real photo I got of just him.  Hopefully, the camera man did better and got a good shot with him in his wedding outfit.

Dad left the following night, so, we made the most of it by taking off south and checking out a couple beaches as well as South Point.  Little did we know, we never made it to the real South Point...Dave got sidetracked with this jumping spot.  The wind was blowing so hard, it knocked me off balance a couple times and as you can see, there's no railing on that cliff...to make it worse, the rock up above actually juts out farther than the cliff below it.  It was nerve wracking just to stand there!

But, Dave decided he wanted to take a shot at the 40' drop...he's mad at me for my camera work, but, the other people there had GoPros on those flexible stands that they could hang over the cliff.  There was no way I could position to see the water with my camera...plus, I didn't expect him to go when he did!!

Afterwards we backtracked a bit and then headed down the road to the Green Sand Beach.  This was a dream day for Dave...we rented a Jeep and the "road" to the beach was only navigable in something comparable.  It was worse than anything Dave had ever taken me on and he enjoyed it WAY too much.  Of course, it didn't help that my Dad was in the passenger seat egging him on either!!  After arriving, you still have to climb down a steep wall and then there it is...with the wind whipping, we didn't stay long...and it was so NOT worth the drive out there!!!  But, we can say we've been there and did that...

By the time we got back on the real road, we were all starving.  Just a little bit south of us was the town of Punalu'u and we stopped at this Bake Shop for a pretty amazing dinner.  They had a greasy spoon type menu, but, all of the buns were fresh made Hawaiian Sweet Rolls....SO GOOD!!  They are also supposed to have really good donuts in the bakery part, but, I had a bite of Dave's and wasn't overly impressed.

Most of the seating was in the outside pavilions in their garden, I think that was the best part!  We took a few pics while we waited for our food.

As we were finally and thankfully heading back home Dave pointed out that we were just minutes from the famous Punalu'u Black Sand Beach.  Well, it wasn't like I hoped to come back again, so, we took advantage of our proximity and drove further south.  Thankfully, this beach has a paved parking lot just feet away from the beach!!!

The coolest part were the turtles.  Dave thinks I'm ridiculous, but, they had about a 10 foot span of the beach lined up both sides with rocks and there's all kinds of signs along there about keeping your distance.  Every single one of the turtles both on the beach and coming in from the ocean were in the middle of those rocks.  How do they know to stay in that small area?  Dave says that they put the rocks where the turtles beach...but, seriously, it's a big beach...how do they aim that well!!!