Day 3:

The road to Hana was interesting...a 2.5 hr drive to go 60 miles. Let's just say there was a lot of curves...car sickness..and belly laughs. All to get to the famous "Black Sand Beach" which should have been called "Black Rock Beach" it was beautiful but that was it. After spending much of our morning driving to this location (which by the way was CBs idea .. And not a bad one) we worked up  quite the HANGRY appetite!!!


Now, mind you...the road to Hana is on the otherside of the rock ... High high high up...in the freaking jungle. I'm convinced it where all of the real Hawaiian people have gone to escape, well, people like us. However along the sides of the road are make shift storefronts where the native people  sell their local produce, artisan crafts and other "souviners" that well again  people like us will stop to buy a $5 Hawaiian banana.moving on.

The place: Island Chef, "Hana Village Market" $$$

Here in this marketplace were three make shift restaurants, one of them 'Island Chef was in airstream. Quite possibly the first of its kind...and here is where CB and I purchased 2 $20 coconut and shrimp plates. As delicious as it was it wasn't worth the $40 or 40m wait.  This price did not include drinks...you can find those down the path at the yellow "building" for $20.

After we shoved our bellies full of food we found ourselves back on the road again. This time on the way to the Lava Tubes, in Hana. This place was actually really cool.  For $12.50 you can grab a military grade flashlight and head down into a cavern..Chuck, the owner purchased this place year years back and created a great tour packed with fun history for everyone!!!


Back on the road to Ka'anapali ... After we got back we were starving (seems to be the theme of the trip) we took a nice evening stroll across the way to Pizza Paradiso!!!

The place: Pizza Paradiso $$
This place had great pizza, the boys ordered their standard pepperoni piazza...which came on a thin crust, I was surprised CB enjoyed it as much as he did!! I ordered the Big Fat Greek Gyro...that was delish!!!! After we walked over to the Shave Ice place...which was really weird because it had a radio station (????) inside...and the guy was a creepy super liberal weirdo.