Maui, Part 2

This is part 2 in a much-belated series about our Hawaiian vacation...

Since it was still early in our trip (Day two! We felt like we'd already been in Hawaii for a week!), Dylan+painkillers could still walk without much pain... so, off we went on a hike. We started out by leaving the daylight behind and entering into a dense, dark bamboo forest.

 

Dylan felt like he was stepping into another world. He especially enjoyed the off-the-map detours into the heart of the forest (don't try that at home, kids). 

We were rewarded at the end of the hike by the sight of a towering, hurts-your-neck-to-look-at-it, waterfall. Naturally, I had to try some jump shots at the base. Unfortunately, our timing was off on every single shot, resulting in gems such as this one:

Rest assured, folks, this was not an attempt to out-Pamela Ms. Anderson. This is my wind-up to the ensuing jump, which, as you can see, was not captured by anyone.

By the time we made it back from our hike, we were pretty exhausted. We headed back to our little hippie haven, where we were greeted by the best Bailey replacement we could have hoped for: Stripes!

He was a pretty busy cat, being the Master of His Own Domain and the only pettable creature for miles around, but he wasn't too busy to snuggle up with us in our cabin that night.

(We promise, Bailey, it's not that we stopped loving you... It's just that we were so far away from each other, and you weren't around when we really needing some feline company. It only happened once, we swear, and it won't happen again.)

Why does blogging take so freaking long? Hopefully more to come on our NOVEMBER Hawaii vacation soon...