Memorial Day Hike - Manoa Falls

It was all agreed that we wanted to do a hike for Memorial Day, but which hike. It took us a while, but we finally decided on Manoa Falls. It was a hike we hadn't done before. It was good workout, and pretty scenery too, but I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Here we are, ready to leave. I should have taken a picture after because our shoes were all muddy.

And we're off.

The start of the hike.

There was a stream alongside of us.

Crossing the bridge.

Isn't it gorgeous.

Here's where the real hike began. What made it hard was not only going uphill, but the trail was wet and muddy.

After a good 45 mins, we made it to the falls. Access to the falls was blocked off because huge rocks falling a few years back. Some people didn't care and went in for a swim anyway. Boy was it hot and humid. I'm sure it felt good to be in that water.

Trying to pose amidst many tourists and hikers.

There we go. I wished we had been brave and just asked someone to take a picture so that Randy could have been in it as well.

The hike down was harder, trying not to slip.

There go Micah and Kara.

I swear I am NOT picking my nose. I'm rubbing it because it was itchy. . . REALLY! LOL!

As you can see, we did have a casualty coming down.

Green everywhere.

Picture time. In case you're wondering, the younger two went off ahead of us. As you can see, we were very concerned.

Back to the bridge.

Last pose. We were all tired!

I had to put this one in of Micah.

Trying to wash off what mud and dirt we could. Good thing we had water.

Well, since we were in Manoa Valley, we had to have lunch at the Manapua Factory. Very ono!

We had a fun day. We all went home with heat exhaustion . . . no really, we did. We didn't realize it till after getting up from our naps.

Can't wait for the next hike!