Leslie watched the kids while my dad took Andy and I to the Pillbox trail. The drive there was through a valley between mountains and was SO green and lush. My dad pointed out the staircase in the photo below and said it’s called the Stairway to Heaven and that it’s an insane trail people hike.

My dad let us borrow chains for our sneakers. I’m so glad we had them, while the trail wasn’t too extreme it was pretty muddy and slippery.

Dad leading the way!

There are several pillboxes on the ridge around the island. They were used as lookouts in WWII.

Views up there were amazing!

You can see the second pillbox on the trail in the upper right corner.

Andy had looked up several geocaches on the trail and we found one but couldn’t find the others we’d been searching for. Such a neat hobby to be able to do at home and halfway around the world!

We hiked to three different pillboxes, some smaller than others. Rain started moving in and my camera was getting a little foggy as we ventured on. The hike back down was even more slippery but we made it, only a little muddier than when we’d begun.

My dad treated us to lunch at a cute cafe afterwards. One of the signs on the window warned us to not feed the chickens. I laughed, but it’s true, there are tons of wild chickens and roosters walking around the streets. Just like you’d see squirrels back home, Hawaii has chickens :)