We flew in Thursday evening, and got to our condo around 9 of 10 pm. It was surreal to be there, but we were so excited to start our week there. One thing we should have put together, is that we didn't have any food that night...and all the stores close by were closed. and we had no car. haha so...that night...we had the complimentary bag of popcorn for dinner out of our room. lol We laughed at how pathetic it was of us that we had to eat popcorn. But literally nothing else was open. believe me, we checked.and walked up the hill to the shopping center to be sure. Too funny. So, bright and early we indulged in a breakfast at our resort. It was delicious. And the view was beautiful, right on a golf course by the ocean.
Neither of us had been to the Big Island, and Jake had never been to Hawaii before at all, so it was a fun adventure for us to get to know the island and explore together. We got colds right after getting there, so that kinda ruined our beach plans for a couple days, but the pool at the resort was gorgeous as well. We stayed at the Kona Coast Resort. After recovering from colds, we made the journey to the nearest beach. We decided to walk there our first day....that was a mistake. haha it ended up being a couple miles down the road, and with flip flops and blistered feet we walked and walked. We were so excited to finally find the beach! haha Magic Sands was the beach, and we ended up going there majority of the week. It wasn't a huge beach, but it was the perfect body surfing/boogy boarding beach. We had a blast, and the water was so perfect.
Some other fun things we got to do while we were there was a couples massage, with the sound of the ocean out the window, a delicious dinner at Rays on the Bay, where there were Manta Rays in the ocean right aside the dinner table, we went snorkeling and fed the fishes frozen peas, which were quite the hit! Jake was completely surrounded by fish! ( i kinda freaked out by it, lol) . We also found the most amazing beach our last day we were there...we rented a car and drove about an hour north. This beach was gorgeous and SO worth the drive. We saw the most beautiful sunset there, our last night on the island.
We finished the week eating another great meal, and then adventured back to the little airport to fly back home. It was a great week, full of memories. We loved being married, of course :) and then had some funny funny experiences that we'll never forget...Jake getting stung by a bee while we were driving down the highway, running into a coral parking curb with the rental car...the list goes on and on. It was a week I'll never forget. Although it was only about 4 months ago...it feels like it almost didn't happen! haha but we are so grateful we had the opportunity to go. Hopefully we'll be able to return back to Hawaii soon. Next time, I'm taking Jake to Oahu to see my home there :) Enjoy some of the pics we took :)
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