Honeymoon Pictures

Here are some of the pictures from our honeymoon in Kauai. Two weeks of bliss :)

REAL Hawaiian pizza (it's all in the pineapple)








Kauai was amazingly beautiful...

Zach making homemade guacamole--frightening, really....

There are roosters ALL over Kauai. Seriously. And they cock-a-doodle-doo whenever they feel like it. They might choose dawn, but they'll just as soon crow at noon or 11 at night.

Zach and I put about 500 miles on our rental car in two weeks. That is because we probably explored every single road on Kauai. Zach couldn't pass up the adventure.

We named him Numa....

Shave ice. Like a snow cone, but shaved so fine that it feels like ice cream. We ate a lot of this :)

Oddly enough--one of our favorite activities was going to the grocery store/farmer's market and then cooking nice meals at our timeshare.

We rented a kayak one day, stuck it on our car, and took off to explore rivers. SOO much fun.

Zach pulling the kayak up rapids....so that we could then fly down them :)

The second river we explored was pretty much impossible to navigate. We went through what you see in the picture below....yeah--it was intense.

Our rental car. It was a tough little guy....we tested its limits more than once....

Another of the delicious meals we created.

Dang, he's cute ;)

Honeymoon Pictures

Some more pictures from our 2 weeks in Kauai!

Awesome bridge

Kauai was absolutely gorgeous. To put it lightly....

We woke up for the sunrise one morning

The next set of photos follows a great story. But I’ll put it briefly:
1- Seven hours of hiking
2- Mud. Lots.
3-Mile long tunnel through mountain. One headlamp.
4-Overgrown trail, feeling lost, no end in sight.
5-Burning muscles and fatigue.
6-One of the coolest things we’ve done. Something we’d probably never do again :)

This was the start of the trail. And we thought it was dificult...we had no idea what lay ahead.

This was the end of the tunnel. We had been in the wet, dark tunnel for probably 20-30 minutes

After we made it out. Relieved to be in sunshine.

My leg after the hike. Heading to one of the most long-awaited showers ever...

We have a great video of the hike. Eventually I'll get it up, too.

Living room and kitchen of first the timeshare we stayed at. Very, very nice

We camped two days in the mountains...here is our humble abode.

In the hammock Zach strung between tree roots and our picnic table...

Waimea Canyon--quite spectacular

This mom and her chicks ate a loootttt of bread at our campsite :)

We stayed our second week at the resort below. 'Twas lovely....

This is one of the waterfalls before Hurricane Felicia....This is it afterward.....

SoOoO delicious and you can't beat the view :)

Summer Summarization :)

*Deep inhale*

What an amazing summer! Getting married definitely has to be one of the coolest things I have ever done :) The past month has been pretty crazy for Zach and me. We got married on July 26th (pictures of that to come later), a week later left for our two week honeymoon in Kauai, then spent a week in limbo between working at his grandparent’s farm and being in St. Charles. Almost two weeks ago we finally made our “permanent” trip to Kirksville. We set up our house (more pictures for later) and now it is a real home! College has begun again and we are about to end our second week of the fall semester.

And that is a very brief summary of our summer.

But what I know you would rather see are some pictures from the honeymoon! I only took about….1,500.

I’ll try and make it semi-chronological. Obviously it’s impossible to completely cover 14 days of adventure. Just take my word for it—every day was fabulous.

Alright, we shall begin with the plane ride. ‘Twas a lovely 9 hours....lots of good ear popping :)



We arrived at about 9:30 Kauai time (1:30 Missouri time) and from their our interesting first night unfolded... I will attempt to give you a brief version of the excitment:


1-A hardened, tatooed Hawaiian man flies up in a car, points at us, we get in the car, and he goes flying through city streets in the dark--without saying a word. (This was actually our rental car company taking us to the shop to pick up our car. However, in the moment it was quite terrifying)

2-We get our car and drive aimelessly around this strange city until we find Wal-mart--a familiar beacon of hope to any frazzled traveler.

3-Next we drive to the "safe, state beach park" where we will be camping on the beach. Long story short, there are police cars there and one of the cops informs us that the park is known for being an area with heavy meth-amphetamine and drug trafficking.

4-We finally arrive at a different park (suggested by our cop friend). Without really knowing the rules, and without a camping permit--we plop down our tent in the middle of a bunch of strangers. (It's quite late by this point)

We are the yellow tent (Zach is underneath, tearing it down at this point) It is about 6:00 AM and we were up and out before the park ranger could charge us for a permit :)

And that is the story of our eventful, hectic, and entertaining first night in Kauai.

We're marrried!!

Well, this is the first post from the official Mrs. Amy Vicars. Still seems funny to say :)

We've been married for almost a month now, but have been so busy! I promise there shall be photos/stories from our honeymoon in Kauai very soon.

Marriage is absolutely wonderful. We pretty much love it :)
We finally arrived home in Kirksville yesterday. Today we've been running around taking care of insurance, name changes, thank you cards, etc... We stopped by the library to pick up a few DVDs--were hoping to hook up our DVD player tonight.

We miss everyone back home but we're very excited to see what God has planned for us!

Much love,
Zach and Amy