Early the next morning, we went on a whale watching excursion. It was funny because no one really wanted to go except for Ryan so we went for him. It was pretty fun! We saw whales immediately and got some good shots. I told Ryan that I better see some Baleen, but no luck! :) It was a little long. If it had only been one hour we would have liked it much better. This picture you can see four whales!
This is an awesome tree in Lahaina. It is one tree that covers an entire park. It is super old so we probably should not have been doing this....
or this...
or this!
After this we spent a couple of hours at a time share presentation, which we did to get discounts on our excursions. Afterward, we went to Black Rock and the boys snorkeled some more and cliff jumped. Dan ended up loosing his rented snorkel set which was a bummer. He put them on the rocks to do a back flip of the cliff and when he went to go get them again they were gone. A wave came and swept them away. We then went on a helicopter tour, I felt like I was on the Bachelor! We flew over West Maui, and crossed the ocean to another Hawaiian island, Molokai. It only has a few people living there and was truly gorgeous. The best part was flying above the largest sea cliffs in the world. Just straight up and down. Our pilot was awesome-he flew us to the very top and said, "So this is what it would feel like to jump from these cliffs" and totally nose-dived the helicopter for a second. It was so awesome!
Whenever we go on a trip with the McCooks, something always goes wrong! When we went to Vegas, I ended up in the hospital. When we went to Palm Springs, the AC went off in the house we were staying at in the dead heat of summer and Jade screamed all night long. So, we kept joking about what was going to happen this time. That night while we were out to dinner and getting ready to leave, the breaking news of the tsunami in Japan came on the TV. Immediately, we knew we might be in trouble. Knowing that we might have to evacuate that night, we decided to go get some gas in our car and already, there was a huge line!
The rest of that night was pretty crazy. We packed up some backpacks with some things to set by the door in case we needed to evacuate. You wouldn't believe the line of cars we could see from our balcony trying to get up to higher ground. Sirens were going off on the whole island, informing people to evacuate from their homes. Also, announcements were going off on our hotel intercom every hour or so. Our hotel informed us that we should stay put since they would only be moving the first and second floors up to higher ground and we were on the sixth.We watched the news for a couple of hours and they were able to predict the time that Hawaii would be affected. So, we tried to get some sleep and woke back up at about 3:00. Nothing new had really happened and we were able to sleep the rest of the night. The next morning we found that other parts of Hawaii had some damage, but our side was ok. Dan says that his favorite day of the entire trip was today because of the Tsunami warnings. It brought a entirely different excitement to the trip!
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