Our last day...no one really wants to leave, but we definitely made the most of our time in the islands. Jeff and I took advantage of a couple free hours and did some last minute shopping. At 2:45pm a van picked us and Mr P up for our para-sailing adventure while the ladies went shopping at Hilo Hattie. Mr P was just along for the ride, and as camera man. The real adventure for us was the ride to the dock! This guy driving the van was crazy. Imagine a NYC cab driver in a 15 passenger van. Yikes! Speed bumps? Speed is right; we were bouncing all over the place.

I can't say the boat ride out to the initial launch spot was much better. Riding against the waves always sucks. Jeff and I were the second couple to go up. There were 4 (?) other couples with us; everyone was doing tandem rides. What an awesome feeling. Your harness gets hooked to the cable and then they let go and the wind takes you straight up. We were probably up about 800 feet. Once you're in the air you hardly feel tethered at all; the waves rocking the boat don't transfer up the line. So cool. I wish I'd had my camera up there, but they warned that if there were any problems we would be doing a water landing, so I didn't want to risk ruining my nice camera. I think our ride was around 8 minutes long; what a cool way to end the trip.

We all arrived back at the room within about half an hour of each other. Jeff and I took off for a little while. We sat down by the beach for a long time watching the surfers and all the people. An early (for us) dinner at Yum Yum Tree left us with plenty of time to pack. Jeff and I had packed everything so tightly for the trip that we had no room for souvenirs. I kinda figured that would be the case, but knowing the rental cars we were supposed to have gotten weren't going to be all that big, we opted for using the smaller suitcases. So anyways, we ended up buying a duffel bag at WalMart to fit everything back in.