Jeep Adventure

WOW...Quite the weekend! I rented a Jeep from 8am Saturday until 8am Monday...and boy did I get my money's worth! I started with 3 of the guys who are going on outreach with me and we went to southpoint, then drove the 4WD road to the green sands beach where we saw a mother humpback whale teaching her baby how to breach! I couldn't get a picture though. We then went to a beach called road to the sea and it was a black and green sands beach. We jumped into the sand because it was so soft. We had some good pre-outreach bonding.

We returned about 4:30 and I ate dinner, and grabbed 4 more of my friends, and we drove to a beach called Makalawena which is a rugged off-road to the most beautiful beach I have seen on this island! Sand so soft and fine as powder! We got there just in time for the sunset(amazing!) and we camped overnight(pic of the jeep and tent), had a bonfire(Min had never had smores before!), then in the morning we went and swam at the beach(just 5 minute walk away) Then we packed up and we made it back to campus at noon.

I showered, repacked and grabbed two of my roomates and two of the girls going on outreach with me and we went to turtle beach where the top of the water was cold ocean water(about 65 degrees) and then there was a hot underwater stream flowing and the deeper you got the warmer it was. So about 6 feet under the water was about 85 degrees. SO warm! Beautiful too. After we hiked back to the jeep and went up to Mauna Kea. Our goal was to watch the sunset...we had to layer up and by the time we made it to the top of the mountain, we missed the sunset by about 15 minutes. We stayed and watched stars and left for campus at 10pm. We returned to campus at about midnight and we decided that since we had the vehicle, we would go back for sunrise. So we went to denny's and ate breakfast at about 1:00am and then we drove back up mauna kea and waited for sunrise. It was SOOO beautiful.

We returned the jeep a little after 8am monday and we hitchhiked back. I drove over 500 miles in the jeep and Took over 400 pictures. It was the most amazing weekend ever! I wish I could post like 50 pictures, and still it would not do justice to the beauty and the adventure I went on. So I've been spending quite a bit of time catching up on sleep, prayer, and the like this week. So sorry for the delay in this update and my emails and phone calls. I love you all!