Our Hawaiian Adventure Continues, Pt. 2

As you can imagine, that first morning we woke up in Hawaii, our internal clocks were completely off. In fact, we all woke up around 4:30 AM ready to start our day. Well...Abby took just a bit longer to get up and going like the rest of us. She's always been such a sleepy-head!

We ate a quick breakfast, then hopped in the car and headed south toward Kona. We rented snorkeling equipment for the entire week. Here's the view we enjoyed on our way there. Much different than what I thought Hawaii would look like, but still beautiful, nonetheless.

As we were driving around looking for the place we were going to do a little snorkeling, we happened upon this Catholic church. It was so tiny and was right beside the Pacific Ocean. It's supposed to be the most photographed church on the entire island.

The beach where we stopped to snorkel was made only of lots and lots of BLACK SAND. It was so strange, as I'd never seen anything like it before.

We stayed at the beach for just a little while because it was fairly crowded and the snorkeling wasn't all that great. So, we decided to head back toward our hotel and ended up stopping at a Farmer's Market before leaving Kona. The girls and I talked Chris into buying one of these "island delicacies" for us to try. It was rice pudding and coconut milk wrapped up in a banana leaf. Looks appetizing, doesn't it?

Well, let's just say that Brittany's face says it all! It was awful! We each took a bite of it and had to spit it right out. It was like wallpaper paste...not that I've ever tried it! BLECH!

Here's a fruit we, also, bought at the Farmer's Market called a mountain apple. It was very sweet and so different from the apples we have here on the mainland.

We spent the rest of the afternoon at the pool...and it felt so nice, even if it was a little chilly!

Abby's definitely not my BABY, anymore!

This is one of many birds that perched outside our balcony...and caused all sorts of racket in the wee hours of the morning. Bad, bad birds! :)

On my next update, I'll get to share with you some of the more exciting sights we got to see. Hope you'll come back to read all about it! Have a terrific day, my friends!