Hawaii day 5

We woke up Wednesday morning refreshed and ready to go. We had went to bed by 8 pm. The kids wanted to go for a swim so we have in and took the to the hotel pool. It had rained the night before so the pool was freezing. It didn't take the kids long to decide they couldn't handle it. The pool has some coconut trees around it so we picked a coconut and Andrew bashed it against the corner of the concrete and was able to bust it open.

It wasn't completely ripe enough to eat but the water inside was pretty good. 

After getting dressed and checking out of our hotel we went to the Hilo Farmer's Market. 

The Farmer's market was so much fun and to my surprise actually cheap. There was tons of cool looking fruit and lots of home made food. The whole week Andrew had been talking about a food called musubi that he had as a kid. He was so excited to find it at the farmer's market.

Musubi is spam wrapped in a sticky white rice and seaweed. We bought lots of other goodies including a pineapple. Have I mentioned how much I love all the fresh fruit??!!! 

After Farmer's market we drove down to Hawaii's Volcanoes National Park.

One of the volcanoes is currently going off so allot of the park is closed. We were able to see Kilauea Crater from the overlook. It is still steaming. 

All through the park there are steam vents. I expected to see water in the holes but it was just the moisture steaming off. 

Our next stop was Pana'ewa Rainforest zoo and gardens. This place was perfect for our small kids. There are tons of lush plants with  beautiful flowers everywhere. They mainly have birds at this zoo.

Lexie was so impressed when a parrot told her "hello, my name is Max" she acted if it was a magic bird that only talked to her. On the way out we had to go back by him for Lexie to tell Max "goodbye, I love you" to witch Max replied "goodbye, my name is max". 

The zoo's path ended at an awesome little playground. Andrew and I were able to sit and relax while the kids birds of some energy. We all loved the zoo. I loved that is was FREE!

We stayed the night in Hilo but this time at a different hotel because the Hilo Hawaiian was booked that night. That night we stayed at the Hilo Seaside hotel. It was nice but not as nice as the others. Some thing were a little outdated but they had renovations going on so that will help. It did offer a free hot breakfast and free wifi which is a rarity on the island.

We were all pretty tired so we ordered our dinner to go and ate at the hotel. Lance & Lexie enjoyed a nice dinner on the balcony. They were pretty cute acting like they were on a date.