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04/21/17 Hawaii - Day One - Traveling to Kauai, Lydgate, Condo

View from our condo at the Cliffs -- literally cliffs edge!
Thursday evening, April 20th late we started our adventure to Hawaii.  We had a nice family dinner and sent the kids up to bed and then we headed to Las Vegas, Nevada to the airport.   Andy has a motorcycle permit and when he got that they took away his regular license.  Due to that fact he got the "royal treatment" at the airport -- complete with full body search!

Our flight left at 1:45 a.m. Vegas time (2:45 a.m. our time!!!) and landed in Honolulu around 5:30 a.m. Honolulu time  (9:30 a.m. our time).  Once in Honolulu we had to switch to a different gate for a quick 45 minute flight that got us to Kauai at 7:30 a.m. (11:30 a.m. our time).
We made our way to the rental car lot (take a shuttle) and by 8:30 a.m. our fun began!

We had breakfast at Ono Family Restaurant in Kapaa and it was still only 9:30 a.m.  But we were exhausted from having flown all night and weren't supposed to check into our hotel until 4 p.m.

The weather was overcast/rainy so we weren't sure what we should do. We went to Walmart and picked up some breakfasts/treats/and Sunday meal because we had heard there was not  good shopping once we got up to Princeville where we were staying.
We decided to stop at Lydgate park and try some snorkeling.  We were rewarded with some great fish.  And the weather broke while we were there -- no rain, just overcast.  About the time we finished it started down pouring.  
Our original plan was to go to the Marriott Hotel out to their patio and sleep on their chairs by the beach but with the weather not cooperating we decided to head up to Princeville and see if we could get into our place.
We arrived about noon - 4 hours early for our check in time.  A nice gentleman named Blake smiled and said we were in luck, the cleaning crew had just finished and they let us in 4 hours early!!!
Our place was really awesome!  

We enjoyed the rest of the afternoon at our condo and in the pool. Andy had to work for several hours Friday evening so I borrowed the movie Descendant's (the condo had a bunch of movies filmed in Hawaii for borrowing) and watched a movie while he worked all evening. 






Honolulu from the plane




Up above the clouds

Kauai from the plane

Lihue Airport


















Lydgate State Park - the water was breaking
over the rocks pretty good!



Lydgate State Park - storm coming in














Lydgate selfie!



Condo in Princeville









Interesting facts about the condo: There were some units for sale -- $499,000 - for a 1 bedroom place!!!  The place was renting for about $350 night that week (we got if for $100 a night) (Thank you Kerry Wheelwright!!!)
Birdie on our porch

Tree full of birds outside our window

View of the ocean from our condo



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