NO BANANAS!

We saw WHALES!

yes it's true... (but no pics because, we were told not to bring cameras because they would get wet.)

About 9 or 10 years ago, my aunt and I went on a trip to northern California together.... at one point, we hiked out to the beach, hoping to see whales... and we saw one...

or at least we thought we did... we took an entire "Fun Saver" worth of pics, of what we thought was a whale.... then we realized, it was a rock. oops.

But today, we went on our whaling adventure...

Last week, when Bek was reserving our trip, the tour people told her, "we provide the drinks and the poo poos."

"poo poo???"

turns out, "poo poo" in Hawaiian means "snack"...

but we haven't stopped laughing about it since...

Before we left Dallas, Bek's mom gave us snacks she made to bring Jakki... not realizing that the long plane ride would not provide food, or snacks... and only would take cash (of which we had none.... - - DAMN YOU UNITED!!!), we were starving... and when we got off the plane, we both felt horrible about eating all of her sister's poo poos.... :(

So, we drove to the tour this morning... on empty stomachs (because we knew they provided the poo poos) and boarded our boat... The waves were SOOOO big.... I HEART Bomine... without it, I think we'd both have been completely sick.... It was ridiculously rough out there...

The last of the seven "rules" on the rule board was "NO BANANAS"... It's a sailing superstition... or a Hawaiian one ... or both... I'm not sure... but I thought it was funny.

there was no snorkeling... because of all the rain Kauai has gotten over the last month, the rivers drain out into the ocean, and make it really murky... and the rivers also washing out lots of snacks ( or poo poos) for "the big eaters" .... they wouldn't actually say what the "eaters" were... but finally said: "you know, the star of 'Jaws'" ....

SHARKS?!? and REALLY big sharks?! no thanks... we'll stay on the boat...

but we did see the beautiful Kauai coastline... it's were a lot of movies have been filmed: like , Jurassic Park, King Kong... an Indiana Jones movie, and a bunch more that i can't remember...

Then we saw WHALES! humpback whales.. first their blow spouts... then a big ol' whale tail... then lots of whales breaching.... Like the Pacific Life commercial was happening... except for in front of us! ...

the boat was SOOOOO rocky... everyone on the boat got soaking wet at one point or another... we were no exception!

We got back, showered... rested for 30 mins and went up to Olympic Cafe.... yum....

so much for the "Hawaii Diet" ... ha! that was last week's joke, but I thought I'd use it again...