Hawaii Day 5

After fighting traffic to get from the west end of the island to the east the day before, we were at,east prepared for it. we actually saw an accident this morning on our way to do the Maunawili Falls hike. we got to the neighborhood that hike starts in, literally just parked on the street of a neighborhood. we headed in about 8 am. we got poured on for about 15 minutes. it was very muddy and slippery on the hike and we got lost at the end, we had gone up a stream maneuvering through the rocks when I decided to pull out my iPhone and check where we were. luckily I found a persons blog who posted pictures and I saw where we made a wrong turn. We went back- found the falls, but was a little hesitant to swim in the murky waters. So we took pictures and headed back out.

We saw about 8 people coming in as we left. And we were proud to say we got to the falls first that day.  That hike was 2.8 miles and my keens might have irreparable damage done to them (mud stains).

We then drove to diamond head. A much more touristy populated paved path type hike. It was cool though we hiked to the top and got some amazing pictures of the island. That hike was 2.3 miles total. After these lengthy hikes I planned to gorge myself with a burger and beer :).

We went to Waikiki to eat and planned for a beach day for the rest of the day. We had to walk a good mile from where we parked to finally eat. We ate at Dukes on the beach. Sooo good and my first Mai Tai.  It was tasty but not that special. I also tried a kona brewing company beer. Yummy too.
Ryan and I went to the beach. I wanted to go into the hot tub of one of the hotels but Ryan would not play along. Soon after we layed our stuff down it started pouring... we decided to walk around the touristy area. Bad idea because our feet were all sandy and soon both our feet were ripped to shreds from our flip flops. it was a long painful walk back to the car. we then went back to chads and ate some taco salad.
That night we watched the movie Rendition. it was really good but sad too. I cried :)