Kaua'i Banyan Inn

A couple pictures from our room at the Bed & Breakfast in Kauai. It is absolutely beautiful here. It is a little hazy today, but you can see the ocean from our lanai (porch).

Brian

Pictures from an active volcano

We went to Volcanoes National Park on Tuesday, and here are a few select pictures. Trust me, there are many many more. :) It was a long drive to the volcano from the hotel, and we stopped by the black sand beaches on the way. You will also note that the skies are very hazy in most of our pictures. That is because the volcano we are standing in front of is active and is constantly blowing out smoke and ash. Much of the park was closed down due to very high levels of sulfur dioxide.



This is the smoke and ash of which I spoke- The active volcano!


extreme zoom of the opening spewing the smoke and ash-

This is the most recent lava flow from 2003-2004. This was a road that left the National park and eventually led into Hilo.
Apparently the road is now closed-

New Island

We made it to Kauai safely today, and are now at the Kauai Banyan Inn. Tomorrow (Friday)we will be going to the botanical gardens, and then a Luau in the evening. Sorry we haven't posted more pictures, but it's been taking a while for our pics to load into the blog. But thanks to everyone who has been emailing us pictures from the wedding. They have been great and keep them comming!
Anna

Mauna Lani to the Rescue

We had the first bump in our honeymoon plans today. We had scheduled a sunset cruise on the hotel's catamaran (sp?), however it did not sail because lack of booking. Technically it isn't the hotel's catamaran, but a nearby "company", so the hotel really doesn't have any control over the cruise.

Needless to say we were very distraught over this news. We went to the front desk since it was included in the price of the hotel's honeymoon package. We spoke with the guest relations manager, Roy Honjo, and he went out of his way to make it up to us. He comped a romantic dinner at the hotel's expensive restaurant. The restaurant's manager personally came up to us and poured us really nice glasses of champagne. This was our second time to the restaurant, significantly better than the first time. When we got back to our room we were surprised with a bottle of champagne cooling in a bucket of ice and rose petals in the shape of a heart on our bed. It was really touching. We did end up having our last romantic night on the Big Island.

Brian