Goodbye Hawaii

We spent one day traveling the road to Hana to see "the Seven Sacred Pools".

The picture shows water falling into pool three and then into pool two. The younger crowd was climbing up to pool 3 and jumping from the cliffs into pool 2.

Along the road to Hana were some beautiful beaches and 6-7 waterfalls and a black sand beach.

We took a snorkling trip to Molokini and the Island of Lanai. We didn't see any whales but we id see a large group of spinner dolphins. The snorkling was great!!

Molokini

The southwest side of Lanai
Ralph went scuba diving.....Linda chickened out and watched from the beach. I think I need to learn in a pool first. All the info and equipment were a little overwhelming to learn in about 30 minutes.

I feel like there should be more pictures but we spent alot of time snorkling and sitting on the beach. We spent many evenings in Lahina, they have many restaurants right on the water. I think we ate inside one time while we were there.

Sunset from Maui ( this was the view from our lanai-how great is that)

We left Maui and went to Honolulu. We went to Pearl Harbor, below you can see oil still leaking out of the Arizona after 68 years.

Hanauma Bay, a bay formed from a crater. We saw a eel snorkling here, cool!!

Ralph hiked to the top of Diamond Head to get this picture of Waikiki Beach.

Waikiki was great but very different from Maui, it was very crowded but the things we did and saw were great. One thing we don't have a picture of-- we spent the entire last day lounging at the "adult only" edge pool. There were little plastic flags on the back of the chairs that you raise when you need the waitress to get you a drink!! It made me think about the first vacation we took to the Lake of the Ozarks--yes the trip where Katie (16 months old) jumped into the pool when my back was turned. I remember a mom (who had older kids) relaxing and reading a book by the pool, and I wondered if that would ever be me. So.... I spent the whole day reading a book, putting up my little flag and drinking diet cokes. I think the only thing that can beat that is the excitement of awaiting that grandbaby!!

Hello from Hawaii...

Mom and Dadtook some time out of their hectic lives this evening to send these across thousands of miles and numerous time zones to their children (and Grandchild!) back in the continental US, where we have seen about 10 hours of sunshine in the last 10 days total.

We're not jealous, or anything...

But we are quite proud of Mom's texting capabilities...

Babies & Birthdays

May 6 - May 14, 2010

Days of heavy rainfall and rumbling skies lead to muddy pawed doggy delights...

Prepping for baby...we are now owners of a 'big bertha' deep freezer that we got as a steal of a deal from J's boss.  J enjoyed playing with our new 'Food Saver': 

JC was not happy with me this morning when his daily routine was broken; Daddy was home for a 'use it or lose it' vacation day on his 2nd year employment anniversary, but apparently, JC prefers the peace and quiet of his cage with his morning Ritz cracker:

Little Man's 5th Bday celebration with the 'F' family:

Iron Man 2, complete with Large Diet Coke and Popcorn,

Pizza Rolls & Root Beer with some Indiana Jones with J-Dog,

& a chocolate chip cookie cake (the little dude's favorite treat) to top it all off:

PS. Doesn't Jdog look like Wolverine here?

PPS. The frosting isn't pretty (I'll have to work on that) but Baby thought the cake was Deeeeee-licious!

Doggie Park

Lilly and I hit up the dog park this morning. She had a lot of fun avoiding other dogs and running all through the woods. We went off the main path so she could go through even more trees and find even more new smells. We ran into another golden retriever (like we always do), and this big boy (at least 80+ pounds) was 7 years-old. His owner thought Lilly was so pretty and looked really good for her age. She also wanted Lilly to teach her golden to run around like Lilly does so he can drop some weight!

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