Aloha blog! Welcome to Day 8, our last full day in Kauai. Sniff sniff. Josh went paddle boarding early that morning on the Wailua River, and then we went back to the always fabulous Ono Family restaurant for another delicious breakkie.

While Josh returned our paddle boards, I did a little shopping by myself near our hotel in downtown Kapa’a. This glass shop had incredible glass jewelry. I managed to restrain myself to a simple pair of triangle-shaped glass studs (I’m into triangles this year), but, given enough money…I would have bought several pieces. Heigh ho!

Even though it was in the 80’s already that morning and insanely humid, I nevertheless had to walk into “Orchid Alley”, at which point I nearly passed out from the humidity. I quickly snapped some photos of the most gorgeous variety of orchids I’d even seen until a salesperson waved their arms at me and I noticed a huge sign overhead that said NO PHOTOGRAPHY. Whoops.

Orchids aren’t even my favorite flowers and I was still impressed. One of them had a chocolate scent!

After Josh returned to Kapa’a to pick me up, we stopped at Ono again for shave ice and then went to check out the beautiful Opaeka’a Falls. A stranger kindly offered to take our picture.

So lovely.

This was a very popular tourist spot, as you can imagine.

Josh’s shirt received a lot of favorable attention from the old hippies of Kauai.

Nearby, the Wailua River where he went paddleboarding that morning. My shoulders weren’t up for another paddle boarding day, unfortunately.

Another pass by the coconut grove.

Shiny happy people!

It was fitting that we had our final plate lunch at the place we had our first plate lunch, “Da Imu Hut”. Mmmm hmmmmmm. I can’t sing the praises of plate lunch enough.

After the Imu Hut, we hit up Kauai Coffee for goodies and gifts to bring back home. I fell in love with these flowers again.

Coming up next: one last snorkeling experience! A nighttime street art fair! And I finally get lei’d!