Waimea Canyon and our last day

 We had to be out of our room at 11, but our flight wasn't until 11pm.  So we got food at the food trucks and hung out by the water for a bit.  This is along the path I ran.  Not a bad way to kill time.

Funny story, I forgot to pack a pair of long shorts.  So I had dresses and pants that I could wear with garments but not shorts.  So I wore my running shorts while we hung out here and changed back into garments and pants for the flight.  If you look closely in this picture you can see the purple bruise on the back of my thigh...

Then we drove to Wailua Falls.  Julie said her family climbed down.  Seriously, I don't know about them.  Ryan and I looked for a way down last time we were there and were never brave enough.  Not to mention it's not allowed.  But we did see people at the bottom this day too.  There's a way.  Maybe next time Ryan and I are alone we will do more research and find a way.

Then we drove to Poipu in hopes of seeing some monk seals or turtles.  We saw turtles but no seals.  Kylee and I walked along the beach past the hotel Ryan and I stayed at on our first visit and we decided it was far enough that we should just have Ryan pick us up and we would keep walking.  We walked all the way to the little shop that had smoothie bowls that I loved.  And we got there at like 3:01 and they closed at 3:00 and they wouldn't make me one.  I was soooo bummed.  

You can tell that Kylee was feeling better by then.

We headed further up the island toward Waimea Canyon and stopped for one last snow cone at JoJo's.

We drove to the top of Waimea and we were inside of a cloud and it was zero visibility.  I mean ZERO.  I think there was a fee you had to pay but we didn't want to pay it because there was nothing to see.  We waited for a little bit but it wasn't looking like the clouds were moving at all.  So we called it a loss and started back down.  We pulled off for these views, which were pretty awesome.  But not quite the same.

We made our way to Lihue and looked around one of the souvenir stores.  Then decided to have dinner at Costco.  And wow, we should've fed our kids there more.  The prices are the same as any other Costco, which is way cheap for Hawaii food.  After we ate we wandered around Costco for awhile looking at all the crazy foods they had.  A bunch of different kinds of dried fish, lol.  Anyway, we clearly had tons of time to kill.  We stayed there for awhile but the kids just kept begging me to buy them things so we finally decided to just go get checked in at the airport.  An 11pm flight is crappy any time, but when that means it's 3am at home, it's really crappy!  Somehow we all survived.  I've given up on stressing about trying to get sleep and just watch movies and close my eyes if I feel like it.  I will say I was pretty cranky at our connecting flight but I got more sleep on the flight to Salt Lake and felt okay after that.  Long travel days!  But our kids are troopers.  The people at TSA made comments about us like, "you have like a whole kindergarten class" and the one at the end said, "you guys did that really smoothly, doesn't usually happen with such a large group."  Kylee was like, "do I look like a kindergartner!"  Seriously, our family isn't all that big.  We did have a lot of bags though since we didn't check very many.