A certified member of the HCKT (Hawaiian Canoe and Kayak Team)

What a great second to last day in Oahu! We spent the day driving around the island and to the North Shore.

The day was once again beautiful and the views were incredible!

We stopped at the Dole Plantation so I could buy some pineapple wine and Maui passion fruit wine (I'm going to save it for whenever I finally get my house so it can be the celebration wine ;)).

Then we stopped and got root beer, burgers and fries at one of Cherise's favorite restaurants, Ted's Bakery. We had to make sure we ate a nice sturdy lunch because we were off to join the HCKT. We rented Kayaks and attempted to kayak in the ocean. It was really rough and windy today, however, and you pretty much need to be Popeye and make sure you ate all your spinach to get the double kayak past the shore line where the waves are crashing so hard. It definitely would have been a funny sight to see as me and Cherise tried to get the kayak past the waves. Cherise almost broke her toe, I got a huge bruise on my leg and the kayak kept doing it's own thing. It almost flipped a couple times and it did flip me once. Then we were laughing so hard that all our energy was gone anyways, and there was no getting the kayak out there. So we decided we would take it to the calm lake that was a run off from the ocean. That was very peaceful and pain free :) So as much as the HCKT wanted to give us honorary certification, we had to decline and rob them of our skills. They will forgive us someday.