You've got to want it to win it

After a long day of traveling, which included a layover in Salt Lake (flights were cheaper from Vegas),  Jesse and I arrived in Honolulu!  After dinner we went for a run.  Since we are staying in Laie, we did two loops to BYU-H and back, and two loops to the temple and back.  Super sweaty and moist thanks to the humidity! :) so happy to be on a real honeymoon!

This morning after enjoying a sunrise on the beach, Jesse and I went for a run :)  We ran to a community bike trail that runs along the Kamehameha Highway and went out for a bit.  Just past a mile in, we passed a state park so decided to run through there.  It was a campground, and the beach was right behind it.  It was beautiful.  By the time we were back out on the highway, we had added on another mile.  We kept going out a little bit more before turning around.  This was a really nice trail, and it was also neat to see so many kids riding their bikes to school on it :)  What a lovely community :)  Hawaii is awesome :)  We saw a lot of geckos on the last part of our run.

This morning sleep sounded better than running.  So I waited before getting up.  When I was getting ready to run after breakfast, it started raining!  So Jesse and I drove around the North Shore and to the Dole plantation for some Pineapple ice cream :)  The afternoon was spent boogie boarding :)  and I saw a turtle!   After dinner we were getting ready to run and it started to rain again!  But we went running in it anyway.  We did the BYU-H loop and the temple loop, Jesse did one of each with me and then I finished on my own and added on to get to 5 total.

After watching another Hawaiian sunrise with Jesse, we parted so I could get my run in.  I ran out 2.5 miles on the bike trail by the highway, then on the way back did 3 minutes on 2 minutes off.  I made it through 3 full sets and then was at about 2:30 on the 4th on part when I got back to the house.  Today's fun included paddle boarding at Kualoa Ranch.  I got swept away by the current (just past the buoy that marks off the small swimming area designated by the tour group. I was being washed further down shore and was not in real danger) but then I was surrounded by sea turtles!  So for the afternoon we went to Waikiki to go snorkeling on a boat tour that took us out into the water and stopped above a reef where we could see turtles stopping for fish to eat the algae off of them :)

Hopped over to Kauai today hoping that the weather would be better than on Laie as Iselle was going past.  Our hotel had bike rentals, and a nice trail behind it right alongside the beach, so Jesse and I biked 8 miles.  Then we ran 4.  Our quads hurt!  And we accidentally scared a chicken out into the road, where it got hit by a car.  And got up.  And got hit by the back tire of the same car.  But then it got up and ran the rest of the way across the street.  In the moment I felt so bad for the chicken, but thinking about it now I think it was hilarious!!!  Decided 4 miles would be ok and that I could do 6 tomorrow to finish off the week...  

It rained all night and we were on flash flood warning.  I even got texts from the National Weather Service, how cool is that?  They were able to send warnings to all phones in the area without us having to give them any information.  Because it was still raining and was probably going to rain all day, at about 6am Jesse and I booked our flights over to Maui!  Where we did the road to Hana.  In the evening we were not liking any of the hotels we were finding, so we booked the last flight back to Oahu.  After a late arrival and an hour still to drive, I skipped the run today.