Kauai Day 1 - January 27

We made it! We left Spokane early Friday morning and spent the majority of the day flying. We left Grandma Kellogg in charge of the kids and we escaped!!! So begins our week of fun on Kauai

This is "our" beach. Our condo backed up to this perfect inlet and beach.

View of our pool and out to the beach behind our condo. I never got tired of this. Doesn't it just look like a vacation should?

Our awesome helicopter sits behind me. I was so so excited to do this. We booked it for our first day and it did not disappoint. Something I would recommend to anyone. If you do it you have to go on a Hughes 500. This helicopter is doorless and seats only 4 passengers. We chose the Jack Harter company which offers a complete 60 minutes tour of the entire island. So impressive. Kevin buckling in and getting his earphones on. They weighed us before hand and gave us seating assignments, so Kevin sat back left and I sat front right. We each had a camera, so we got a ton of pictures. Here are a few of my favorites.

View of Wailua falls

Beautiful toes I know, but hey you know they are mine.

This is an aerial view of our condo/hotel set up. That pool is known as the biggest pool in the entire state of Hawaii. It took a few minutes to swim around the entire thing. So warm and relaxing.

Waves on the North shore were incredibly big the week we were there. We are talking 25 to 30 footers.

The Napali coast is one of Kaui's must see, experience and be in awe over. You can really only get a good look at it by air or hiking in. Absolutely breathtaking.

All of us in front of our helicopter and see our cute pilot in the back? We are looking a bit windblown, but can you blame us?

After the helicopter ride we headed down to the South shore to look at the spouting horn blow hole and see what other beauties were down there. This is also where we experienced the delicious Puka dog. Who knew a hot dog could taste so yummy.

These are some petrified sand dunes down on the south shore, we ran out of daylight so we didn't get to wander as far as we wanted, but they were really fun, and were a great location to check out a beautiful Hawaiian sunset.

Spouting horn blow hole-we weren't allowed to get within 100 ft. I guess that is for the best as I needed my camera for the remainder of the trip.

Soaking in the beauty of the South shore. What a great day.