Hawaii Day Two

The next morning we headed to the beach for some sun and snorkeling. Saw a few fish and Nate and Elizabeth got to try snorkeling for the first time. After lunch we drove to Iao Needle park and walked around there and at a strange nearby cultural park. We stopped at a fruit stand along the way for some local fruit. Then we drove back south and stopped at Maalaea Bay and hiked along a boardwalk and the beach. We spotted whales out in the bay. Then it was back to the condo for dinner with our tropical fruit,and hot tub time.

Hawaii Day One

I'm going to attempt telling about our trip to Hawaii - mostly for my benefit, since I tend to forget what we did when and this way I'll have a record of it. It may take a awhile to get it all down. . . .

We left Oregon on a cold day in December, the 13th to be exact. We had a direct flight to Maui from Portland. The flight was full but the free mai tais near arrival were nice. We picked up our rental car, which was "upgraded" to a Dodge Charger (we would have preferred the downgrade) and headed a few blocks to Costco, where we loaded up with groceries. Then we drove on down to Kihei to our condo at Kamaole Sands. The grounds were beautiful and our condo was nice. The beach was across the street so as soon as we were unpacked and ate our pizza from Costco, we headed to the beach. The water was warm! We walked around on some rocks nearby and spied our first turtle. He was huge! We explored some more and then made a run to a nearby grocery store for the rest of our supplies and then we were readyfor bed!

Happy Holidays!

Well, it's been awhile since I've been here. We'll start with a Christmas post and hopefully move on to our Hawaii trip. This first picture is one of us with our gifts from Aaron and Kim - mostly books, hurray! And here's the kids with gifts from Grandma and Grandpa--Benjamins!

In the afternoon we went over to our friends, John and Roz Hadley. We had a great dinner and games and enjoyed their dogs, Spicey and Ober! We had a nice day.