Day Six - Henry

It was June 21st, Saturday.

This day was a day unlike any before, that is to say we did not start our day with making sandwiches early in the morning for once as there was no service for the day, just a bunch of sidequests. Instead we got up at 8ish, and after a brief breakfast got to work cleaning the whole house. 

We packed all of our stuff, and made sure to sweep the whole place up. It was then that our dirty van made it's voyage up an exeptionally pretty island coast in the direction of what would become our new place of rest for the next 2 nights: the Airbnb.

We stopped at a food truck parking lot, and I got a poke bowl. And then we drove back to Waimea Valley, where we had our Luau experience yesterday to visit their gardens.

We entered the garden, it has one big main path leading to the waterfall, and several smaller paths to various sections dedicated to different plants in Polynesian islands. Michael and I made it our goal to visit every trail and read as many signs as we could. There was also a section dedicated to the buildings people lived in in Oahu, which I thought was very interesting. I also brought my camera and got to take so many pictures; Hawaii is so full of nature in a way that that cannot be experienced secondhand. I think my camera's sd card filled like 5 Gb more. I can't get those off those off my camera yet so- uh- I'll give you a second to imagine what they could look like on your own.

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Anyways we finally all arived at the waterfall, it was calming but we didn't swim. And then we made our way back, I was so invested in the nature that I may have been a little bit late to the party in fact.

But then our van had to depart yet again, because Mike said so and he's driving. So we drove yet again in the direction of the Airbnb, but not without stopping for shave ice, the same place we visited the day before because it was too good.

As we drove along the coast we noticed a lot of tents with people living in them, and just how much poorer the West Side of the island seemed to be. And yet it's still the same Hawaii.

We stopped at Tumura Supermarket to restock food, and finally got to the Airbnb. Mike grilled burgers while Knox and Jude, had some sort of game where they marched along the patio? Anyways after eating we had our reflection of the day, and then we played Oh Hell! (Which Mike calls Oh Heck!) for the first time of this trip. Oh He(ll/ck)! is a game similar to Hearts, but tricks are good and you have to bet on the exact number of tricks you will end up with each round for bonus points. My favorite moment though was when Thorne bet on getting 0 tricks, however he managed to win a round with a 2 of non-trump, the lowest possible card; so he got no bonus points!

We then went to bed. It's a boring conclusion but it's how most days end. I think it was an exciting day.