St. Patty's day Hawaiin style

On St. Patty's day we decided to hike up Diamond Head.
Diamond head is a volcanic crater that was left by an volcanic explosion. The volcano is now extinct, but there’s just something empowering about walking up the side of an extinct volcano

The 99 stair climb sure made our legs burn.

We finally made it to the top.

The view was amazing!

I still can't believe how clear and beautiful the water was.

 Crater

 After we climbed back down from the volcano, we stopped and took a rest on some park benches. All of a sudden these birds cam up to us. I decided to crumble up some of my granola bar and feed them. Sure enough they jumped right in and started eating out of the palm of my hand.

 Some would climb right into our hands and we could hold them.

 After our hike we went to
Hanauma Bay for some snorkeling. It was so much fun! I have never done anything like it before. I'm bummed that I didn't use all of my film from my underwater camera to have it developed. I got some really neat pictures of a ton of cool fish. 

We had a nice three hour relaxing time at the beach. So much so that we fell a sleep on our towels for about 30-40 min. The result was a cooked Melissa lobster.

After our snorkeling adventure, we went to Germaine's Luau.
Here we had authentic Hawaiian food. They had a roasted pig, poi, fish and potatoes.
This table was set on the sand. We used mats for chairs.

 You can't see me in this picture, but I was up on stage learning to dance the hula.

By the time we left the luau I was super red from the lovely sunburn I received from my relaxing day at the beach.