Flat Stanley takes a trip to Lana'i

Kurt's cousin, Megan, is doing a school project with Flat Stanley. Stanley was unfortunate enough to fall off of a bulletin board and get flattened. However, now Stanley gets to travel all over the world to visit people... and we are lucky to have Flat Stanley come to visit us in Hawaii!! 

Kurt and I figured we better not be boring while Stanley is visiting us so we took him on a trip to Lanai. It was our first trip off of Maui since we arrived here 4 months ago.

We told him stories...

attempted to teach him the shaka sign, "hang loose braddah'"

And taught him a geography lesson about the different islands off of Hawaii.

We are thoroughly enjoying having a visitor here with us, even if he cannot talk or do anything but put his arms out wide!! :) He is always a smiling face in our house!

 Here are a few more Lana'i pictures

 Manele Bay with the Four Seasons resort in the background

(I took this picture special for you, Jill!)

 One nice thing about Hawaii is that all of the beaches are public. Even though Lanai is a privately owned island, we still get to go to the beach!

 We rented a Jeep and went off roading. This is a picture of the "Garden of the Gods"

It was just a bunch of smooth rocks.

Lana'i is much dryer than you would expect for a Hawaiian island. A large majority of the island only gets about 10 inches of rain each year.  However, one quality that we really liked about Lana'i was that is felt very relaxed and secluded.  Only about 1,000 people live on Lana'i.