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Note: all pictures that have a date of 11/27 should actually be 12/28 (it took us some time to realize how to change the setting in the camera)
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After an entire day of traveling, we arrived in Honolulu late at night on Dec 27th (about 9pm local time, but 2am east coast!), so we just chatted for a couple hours and went to bed. The next day though, we went straight to Pali lookout to check out the view:
We walked down a narrow, overgrown old highway, that apparently used to be the main road before the interstates were built (middle). Most of that overgrowth is actually ginger! I found it amazing that the mountains are so jagged and fingered, yet still have vegetation (left). Also interesting was the road that just tunneled straight through some of these fingers! (right) 
 After driving from Pali lookout, past a few seemingly out of place shrines to American Christmas, we decided to get in some beach time at Kailua beach. The brown smudge in the water that everyone seems to be looking at is actually a turtle (bottom right). 
 
.JPG) After the beach, we got lunch at Maui tacos and went to the Windward mall to acquire sunglasses and some summer clothing (something that isn't needed much where we live!). After all that we headed to the Valley of The Temples, where there were churches and temples for various demoninations of several major religions, and lots of graves. 
 
 At the top, there was the Byodo-In, a Buddhist temple with beautiful grounds, where we saw some bananas growing wild and spent a little time wandering around. It's also where the flashbacks to Korea in the TV show Lost were filmed. As sad as it is that any Asian-looking place can pass for any other on network television, I have to admit that when I saw the show, I didn't suspect that it was anywhere other than Korea. 
 
 
 
 At the temple, there was a pond with schools of enormous fish, some swans, and... a turtle! 
 
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