Hawaii is Really Pretty- Why Does No One Talk About That? ;)

So, last week, my Robb and I went to the big island of Hawai’i. We saw an active volcano, lush rainforests, deserts, waterfalls, ALL the fruits, dolphins, sea turtles, green and black sand, friends, and the new Bond movie, because sometimes you just need to take advantage of a babysitter and go to a movie, even when you’re in a tropical paradise. It feels like there’s nothing new I can say that hasn’t been said about the gorgeousness of the place, but I’ll try. Plants are jurassic-looking and abundant, clearly winning. The whole place is ancient and ever-changing, like multiple planets in one, all rising off the face of a cork, bobbing alone in the ocean. There ARE birds, we heard them- chickens, roosters, and song birds waking us through windows, but very rarely do you see a sea bird. Because you’re on the edge of the earth and how would they even get there? The ground is hollow- lava is porous, layers and layers of liquid coalesces to become rock enough to stand on, to require machines to break through to build, but also light enough to lift. Sometimes when lava rests, it’s as smooth and decadent looking as a pan of chocolate brownies, sometimes it’s sharp rubble. Weird, exotic minerals land in weird, exotic ways, so the sand comes in strange colors.