More Moloka'i

After our wonderful journey to the peninsula, we gathered with the locals to listen to a very talented jazz band at Coffees of Hawaii. Seriously, Moloka'i is the greatest! We also met up with a couple of people that were on the Kalaupapa experience with us, including one writer for the San Francisco Chronicle! Check out her work here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/03/19/alohafriday031910.DTL
and here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hawaii/index
I can't wait to see her article about Saint Damien and the Kalaupapa Peninsula.

The next morning, we went back to Coffees of Hawai'i for breakfast with a couple of new friends and fellow travelers from our guesthouse. Hello, Bruce and Sue!
Being sore from the hike, we decided that a beach/beautiful drive day was in order.

We were so happy on our first honeymoon (honeymoons are so fun and we love to travel, why not take a couple?)



We tried to go off-roading in our PT Cruiser. Maybe not the best idea...

Just a short walking trail was all we could handle this day:

This is Saint Sophia Catholic Church, one of the churches that Saint Damien started. It caught fire and was very damaged the day before we got to the island. It is a shame, but the people we spoke with about it didn't seem too distraught because it was in great need of renovations and updating anyway. Here's the article in the paper that morning: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2010/Feb/11/br/hawaii100211008.html

You have no idea how happy scenes like this make me.