My Hawaii Trip (re-edited)

 Dec. 25
The weather wasn't that good in my state and I lay on my bed hoping that Hawaii would have better weather in store for us. About 30 minutes before we left for the airport, I started sleeping. When we reached the airport, I couldn't wait to get to Hawaii. My favorite part would always be to see the hotel. You might say that all the hotels would look pretty much the same. But that's wrong. They look pretty much... different! Anyway, once we got off the airplane that was bound to Kauai from Honolulu, we went to our car rental, picked up our car, and then, headed home, I mean to our hotel (but basically, a hotel is a vacation home). The next day, we began our first day of Kauai. That day, we were seeking out a Hindu Monastery that is absolutely run by Americans. The founder of this temple was, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami. He left San Francisco and traveled to Sri Lanka and followed a guru's teachings by praying and meditating. After many years, he came to Hawaii and founded this monastery.  The part of Kauai that he has used to create the temple and it's beautiful natural surrounding is gorgeous. There are jackfruit trees,  rudraksha trees (see in this link: http://www.google.com/images?q=rudraksha&oe=utf-8&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1400&bih=791), and banyan trees. One of the statues they decided, was to be shipped from India. The people shipping it from India asked if they wanted the stone banyan tree. They said they didn't want it because they already had a humongous large, real banyan tree. Once the statue came and was placed there, one of the sages cried because of how beautiful it looked.While we were driving, my mom told my dad the way to Opaeka Falls. Sadly, we couldn't get very close. We just saw some water falling in 3 different directions. The next place we went to was a hiking place. There was also a wet cave and a dry cave. We just walked up to the wet cave. It kind of looked like a scene from a movie where usually, there are one or more people boating. Then we went on a muddy trail. Two people advised us to not go too far. We just did a 5-10 minute hike and left for our hotel.