Maui for the 4th of July!

We were going to go to Honolulu, but the morning we were supposed to take off the flight filled up. So we decided Maui was a good backup. We flew there and found a place to stay for cheap and spent the first night hanging out on the beach. It was kind of a make shift trip, but we had a ton of fun.

This was on the top of Haleakala Crater for sunrise. We woke up WAY early and cruised up the mountain so we wouldn't miss the sunrise. We barely made it to witness this.

On the road to Hana we stopped and took pictures of these really cool trees. They're the Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree's. Our friend called them the gay trees. They were a little different.


As is Michael sometimes. They brought out his inner self.

This was another stop on the road to Hana. Another black sand beach. We thought these were really cool. Even though people say the road isn't worth the drive, they are wrong. It was worth every bit of it. It is one of the most beautiful drives I've ever been on.

This is at Seven Sacred Pools. We were the only ones that climbed up this top fall, along with our new-found friend Chris. We met Chris and Shirnest at the pools and after hanging out for a couple hours ended up deciding to stay another day and sleep at their place. So they let us stay for free and we took the flight out the next day.

This is the "nuddie" beach. We never went down because there were nakky people down there, but we thought we would get a picture of it. It looked really pretty. Technically it is illegal, but no one really cares down here.

This is the really cool black beach. This is at Waianapanapa State Park and we had a ton of fun here. We picked a guy up on the road to Hana and he told us to come here. He was this really funny old guy and made us take a picture with his "Thank God for Hana" sign.

That rock out there that pokes up is where we jumped from in these next videos. It was crazy cool!

This was a crazy scary jump. The waves were beating in against the rocks and you were standing on this 40 foot rock and the wind was blowing pretty fiercely. . .so much fun!

Chels always looks funny jumping off the rocks.See what I mean. Look in the middle on the left. That's Chels all bent over jumping off the rock.
Michael doing a backflip off the little cliff. We had a lot of fun here at the Seven Sacred Pools. I absolutely love Hawaii for this reason!
This is the sign the hitchhiker gave us. We look like such dorks!
This is a little LDS chapel in Maui. It is the first LDS church built on the islands, so I told Chels we had to find it and take some pictures of it.
This is inside with some of the original pictures. It was such a cool little church. Kind of hard to find, but way worth it.This was the beach we hung out on for the 4th of July. I would have taken some pictures of the fireworks, but none of them really looked like anything, so you'll just have to imagine fireworks over the ocean.
It looks like a really peaceful beach at sunset, but a couple hundred yards away a huge group of kids showed up and drank the night away. Police showed up at one point, so I can only imagine what was going on over there. But we had a lot of fun down on our end. Chels took a couple of pics like this and I couldn't decide which one was the best, so I put this up.
This is another picture of beautiful Hawaii. It was so pretty there. I think I could live there for a while and be perfectly content. I wish we had more time in Hana. We were told not to go out there, but if we ever go again we will probably spend most of our time there. There were a ton of waterfalls and beautiful shorelines as you wind your way through the trees.
Everyone thought we were crazy for only staying a couple days, but when the flights are free it's oh so worth it.
This is another pic from the Haleakala crater. We got up here right before the sun started coming out over the clouds.
We love Hawaii and even though it was a last minute change in plans, we still had a ton of fun in Maui.