Breakfast was included in our hotel package. They gave us a lunch kit and we went down on the pool deck to grab breakfast-to-go (lots of fresh pineapple all week long - yummy!) and went down and had breakfast on the beach. (How cool is that!?)
The birds there were very brave. When we were eating breakfast one came up and pecked Darcy's toe! 
We walked on the beach some
and saw some very cool trees.
A local told us we could walk from our hotel up to Diamond Head in about half an hour so we tried it. Along the way we saw Hawaiian Christmas trees
and great views.
Apparently there are two ways up Diamond Head - we followed the signs, but it ended up being the long way. A "half hour" walk turned into 2 hours! And that was just to the bottom! We got there just as they were closing and they told us to hurry up or we wouldn't make it out before they locked up. But they let us in for free. So we hustled up the mountain for another hour or so. After just walking for 2 hours. Kinda tiring, to say the least! 
But the view from up top was amazing!
Not very volcano-ish, though. I don't know what I was expecting, but that wasn't it.
On the way down we met some nice people who offered us a ride back to our hotel in their mustang convertable. First time in a convertable, and what a great place to go for a ride!
One thing that was weird about Hawaii was their moon. A quarter moon at home is either a sliver of light on the left or the right, but in Hawaii it was "upside-down"! Not a great picture, but you get the idea.
Stay tuned for more...
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