hawaii trip spring break 2005

aloha!  here are the loads of pictures i took while in hawaii.  i'll tell you right now that they're mostly just scenery because that's what happens when you vacation by yourself.  but they're pretty!  you can pretend you saw all the same beautiful sights i got to see! :)

my hotel room
the rainbow after a little bit of rain on the day i arrived
the rainbow again
one view of my hotel room
the other view of the hotel room (my mom loves photos of hotel rooms)
the bathroom
the view from my lanai
another view from my lanai

the beaches
the ocean
diamond head from the beach by my hotel
a closer view of diamond head
the reef, the halekulani (my fave!), and the sheraton
diamond head again
more diamond head -- it's pretty!
a view of the waikiki shoreline from a walkway out over the water
another view of the shore and kuhio beach
kuhio beach, the movie screen, the booths set up, and diamond head in the background
a closer view of the movie on the beach that i didn't watch because it turned out to be in japanese
a beautiful sunset from kuhio beach
the waikiki shore
sunset and a palm tree
sunset from the beach on another day
a few minutes later
and another of the same sunset
a view of the southern part of kuhio beach from rocks that jut out into the water
and waikiki from this same place
and more waikiki from there
and more of oahu
diamond head from these rocks
the ocean forever
the beach and aforementioned rocks, which i enjoyed from the shade under a tree
a sailboat
and more of the beach and sailboat
sunset on my last night in waikiki
more sunset on my last night (for now)

the hike up diamond head
the first view i came across, before even reaching the floor of the crater
a view looking over the eastern part of the island
another view from pretty low
the mountain i was about to climb (blurry)
the flattest part of the hike was the crater floor where it officially started
starting to get a bit higher with more views of the island
the path quickly grew very rocky and narrow
a view from a lookout point a bit higher
another view from the same place
me standing on the very edge of this lookout point
the dark cave that was part of this trail
i could finally see the whole crater from this point
approximately 90 stairs straight up
nearly to the top looking out over the beautiful blue waters and the lighthouse
a closer photo of the water and lighthouse
from the same place, nearly to the top, of the waikiki shore
and of the hotels at the foot of diamond head
and the whole crater
finally at the top looking towards the island
and looking towards waikiki
and almost the same exact photo
me with waikiki in the background
of the shore right below diamond head
the water, shoreline, and palm trees directly below
looking towards the island again
more of the island and shore looking south
more shoreline on the opposite side of diamond head from waikiki
and more of the coastline because it was just so gorgeous

around waikiki
a bad picture of a wyland whaling wall
the announcement of sunset preceding the lighting of the torches (somehow there's more butt than i had planned in this photo)
and more of the guys who blow the conch shells at the duke statue
and the guy with the fire who lights all the torches in waikiki at sunset every night
under the banyan tree outside the honolulu zoo

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