Honeymoon
We're back from our honeymoon in Hawaii!!!
First, you must know that it is difficult to put into words how nice Hawaii is. It was really like a fairy tale in paradise. We were thousands of miles away and completely detached from the rest of the world. The most stress we had was worrying about how long it would be before the girl with the Mai Tai's would be along to refresh our drinks!!!
A little background info:
In case you don't know, Hawaii exists purely because of underwater volcanoes that erupted, spewing lava all over the place, thus creating several islands.
The capital of Hawaii is Honolulu, located on the island of Oahu. Perl Harbor is also located on Oahu, along with Wai Ki Ki. There are about 1,000,000 people living on this island
We stayed mostly on Maui. It's an Island of only about 100,000 people. This island is great for the cultivation of sugar cane, pineapples, and cattle. Believe it or not, the second biggest cattle ranch in the U.S. is on Maui. It is not as busy as Oahu, so it makes a great place for a honeymoon. There are several resorts spread out across the west coast coast of the island. On the northwest end of Maui is Haleakala. It's the round blob in the top left corner of the island shown in the picture above. This is the top of a large volcano undersea that erupted, forming the island. Haleakala is about 10,000 feet high at it's tallest peak and has a giant crater in the middle, which is more like a valley. Actually, most of the mountains you see when looking at pictures of Hawaii are really craters, not mountains.
Most of the people in Hawaii are not from there. There are really only about 7000 true Hawaiians left in the world. Originally, since the islands arose from the sea, the first people to call Hawaii home were the Polynesians. Groups of people settled on each of the islands and kinda separated themselves from each other. Each island was it's own group. There wasn't really the creation of a tribe or anything similar to that of other Native American groups. They weren't really united until several years later when King Kameamea decided to conquer all the islands and unite them as one. Captain Cook helped out a little and was later killed. The first capital of Hawaii was Lahaina, located on the upper west coast of Maui. The king found out that things were going on on Oahu without his knowledge and had to go there to kick some ass. He decided he should stay there and moved the capital to Honolulu.
OK...enough of that, let's get to the good stuff
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