Saturday Snapshot (January 26, 2013) Dec Visit to The Big Island, Hawaii

The third day of our cruise we visited the The Big Island. We picked up a small van tour in Hilo for a three and a half hour tour with lots of sites!

1st stop: Rainbow Falls - not big but pretty

2nd Stop Big Island Candies.

We sampled shortbread and coffee while watching them make the goodies!

We got some great decorating ideas at the candie shop.

So gorgeous!

3rd stop: Buildings full of all varieties of good smelling orchids

Learn how to grow orchids in the greenhouse.

The next site was Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
but I will post those pictures next time.

The last stop was The Mauna Loa
Macadamia Nut Company.
You can sample many flavors - Yumm!

Next week I'll show pics of the volcano area.

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Saturday Snapshot (1/5/13) Maui - The Lavendar Farm

I was so glad to be home and sleep in last Saturday I completely forgot to do a Saturday Snapshot post!

This was the second site we visited in Maui after the goats. The Ali'i Kula Lavender Farm. 

There are fields and fields of lavender to tour and smell.

This was the field closest to the gift shop which is as far as we walked. :-)

Hydrangeas along the path and lavender in the field.

A view up the hill with the gift shop to the right.

My DH was trying to get FB working on his phone while I took photos.

In the distance is the city and the harbor.

We enjoyed lavender tea and lovely scones! Note the pretty flowers.

This looks down on more of the gardens below the shop deck; 

with the harbor in distance.

This is one of the MANY beautiful flowers all about.

I loved this eucalyptus tree!

And this is a really great gnarled tree with arch.

We purchased some lavender scone mix and lavender sachets.
They smell sooooo good!

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Saturday Snapshot (12/22/12) Maui Surfing Goat Dairy

Thanks to all who congratulated me on my new Granddaughter who was featured last Saturday. :-) She is quite sweet.

We boarded the Pride of America, Norwegian Cruise Ship late on 12/8 and we returned early 12/15.  The ship spent two days on three islands, other than Honolulu: December 9-10 we visited Maui, 11-12 Hawaii, the Big Island, and 13 -14 Kauai.  I plan to devote the next six or seven weeks of Snapshots to show the highlights of the cruise. I hope you enjoy!

The ship was beautifully decorated for the holidays and the food was Wonderful!

 The beautiful tree at the grand staircase.

This is the Pink Champagne room where they had a nice piano player each night 

and held the Art Autcions three days.

The first day on Maui we had planned out with the help of our son and D-I-L.  We rented a car and visited three sites with one more added stop on the way. The first site of interest was the Surfing Goat Dairy. Here we saw baby goats, learned a little about goat cheese, tasted samples and bought a variety pack of cheeses to ship back to the kids.

 These are some surfboards outside the shop; inside the window they are processing cheeses.

 These are very new, two day old, baby goats.

 These are four day old goats whose horns have just been cut off. 

You can walk into the fields for a tour and pet the adult goats.

We are enjoying the cheeses during our visit. :-)

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Saturday Snapshot (December 8, 2012) Hawaii Cruise Day 1

[This is very late for Saturday based on Central time but I am still on Saturday in Hawaii!]

Aloha blogging friends!
We made it to Hawaii a day late after the first leg of our trip on Thursday was grounded after an FAA inspection. We spent many hours sitting in Fort Walton airport until they could get us to Atlanta and then to LA. Although they gave us a hotel voucher we didn’t arrive there until after midnight (4am our home time). We didn’t get much sleep getting up two days in a row at 4:30am to make our connections on time.

But we were happy to get to Hawaii on Friday where we enjoyed an Airforce Ball on the historic Missouri with our son and daughter-in-law.  Here is a picture of Matt and Hui. Who would guess the baby is due 12/9?? I should have spent plane time on the net as I have had no time since arriving.

Matt and Hui dressed to attend the 1940's themed Airforce Ball.

This morning (Saturday 12/8) we had a few avian visitors getting their morning shower from our son’s sprinkler. I hope to get more pictures of the birds on their back porch when we return next week.

 This is a pretty little bird taken from our son's kitchen. 

Unfortunately it was through the door screen.

Late today we boarded the Pride of America (Norwegian Cruise Line) for a seven day cruise of the Hawaiian Islands. [BTW- for those that may think we did back to back Alaska and Hawaii cruises, the pictures I was posting in November were from our August/September cruise. However it is rather neat that we are visiting these two off mainland states in the same year. :-)]

This my husband testing the bed in our cabin as I finish unpacking!

Tonight I had some difficulties getting online and I am told to expect the internet to be very slow.
I hope I will be able to upload some pictures and my book reviews for this coming week.
The next two days we will be in Maui doing a bit of site seeing. 

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