Is there really a perfect paradise?

Well, here are a few photos from my last trip as a "kid" to Maui and O'ahu, Hawai'i. It really was an amazing trip and since how I only have about 10 minutes to write before I have to go to bed for my first day of work tomorrow... I will hit some high points with some pictures.

I love flying and there are many reasons for that. One reason is because it seems to turn my world upside-down when I see it from a far. This photo is of a boat I saw in the water from 35,000 and my great 80x zoom camera. But it's funny how normally it would be like looking up into the sky and seeing a plane zip by instead of what I was seeing.

Hawai'i really is near perfect. I know I haven't been everywhere, but honestly I wasn't even that excited about going. I don't mean to sound spoiled and elitist, but I prefer architecture, fabulous historical buildings and different kinds of scenery, not just beach after beach. But There were volcanoes and mountains with rain-forests on top and waterfalls with lava-black beaches and soo much wildlife. The temperature was even perfect!

I got to do some amazing things too. I jumped off waterfalls and into fresh water springs. I drove 52 miles and back on a road with over 600 sharp turns through the mountains. I road my bike down the volcano through fields of lavender and forests of eucalyptus trees with intoxicating aromas.

I also got to go to a luau filled with Hawai'ian food and dancers, rich with historical culture and extraordinary flavors.

I got to ride on a catamaran dinner cruise of which the winds were so hard it was all I could do to hold up my camera and take this ridiculous picture.

We also got to see a fireworks show from our hotel room on the thirteenth floor over looking the amazing beach sunset behind the spectacular explosions.

The resort we stayed at was even like a zoo and the flamingo below was in a pond near our building hiding from me.

Finally we left on a 5pm flight and because of excitement and other feelings I couldn't sleep and I watched the Pacific ocean sunset go from 13 colors, to 8 colors to a bluish black before I finally fell asleep on my last day of officially being a kid in paradise.