Acai Bowl

This is something that I have been thinking about having since we were here last year. We had it just once and Craig and I shared a bowl. I have been dreaming about having it again and not sharing this time. I wanted the whole thing to myself. And was it ever good and worth every bite. Yum... so good. I've got to learn how to make them myself.

Trouble in Paradise

For Craig's birthday this year our kids got together and gave him a gift certificate from "Spa Finder". That was back in May and he had not used it yet. Well Ashley got on the internet and found a spa in Honolulu so we made an appointment for him for today. While he was in getting a massage, Ashley and I went shopping at the Ross that was there close by. It was quite an interesting experience in the middle of downtown Honolulu.... not the paradise you picture in your mind when you have never been there. And not the same thing I remembered from all the Elvis movies I used to love when I was a kid. The first thing we saw was an interesting homeless man who I believe had never cut his toenails his whole life. Ashley turned to me and said "mom, look at that guy's toenails". I looked and couldn't believe it. "Mom, take a picture". So I did. I acted like I was taking a picture of Ashley and snapped a photo of an unbelieveable sight. The picture is awesome but I don't know if anyone really would like to see it. Let me know and I will add it later. When we were getting in our car I heard a man tell another guy to go away because he had to pee. He went into a little corner of a building and relieved himself right there. When he was done he came out and was talking to a young couple who looked like they were college students. They all looked around and this guy pulled up his sleeve and knelt down behind a cement planter and the young guy who I thought looked like a nice kid proceeded to shot him up with drugs... the girl stood in front of them to hide what was going on but they didn't care about us who were right there watching the whole thing. We just wanted to get out of there. Glad to be back in Laie and away from all that madness.

Malasadas

Last year when we were here Ashley kept watching for the Malasada truck and it never came. We did go to Ted's bakery but they said it wasn't quit the same. I guess the truck travels around and it comes here to the north shore about once a month (I think) and then it goes to other places. I can't remember what town it was in but we had to stop. So the pictures speak for themselves. Yummy!

Diamond Head

Yesterday we hiked up Diamond Head. It wasn't too bad of a hike until we got to the stairs. My knees still hurt from that. I think there were 270 some stairs. I might be off a little but there were a lot. The view from the top was amazing.

Hawaii

Here we are in Hawaii again. Not long ago I thought I would never get to come here and now I have a daughter here and have been here twice in a year and a half. It has been hot and humid but beautiful. It has been so clear that you can see Molokai from here (Oahu). I guess that's not very common. We have done a lot of snorkling and yesterday at Hanauma Bay. We saw some awesome fish. Our quest was to find some turtles and right before we went in there they were. I swam with one for about 10 minutes and then there was another one. He would swim around and then come up to the surface and put his head out of the water and take a breath of air. It was so neat to see him up close. Hanauma bay was so worth the drive and cost. I will need to take Jami there when she comes next week. When we got back to the north shore we had to take a picture of this awesome sunset. We didn't have the time or energy to get over to Sunset beach but that would have been some picture.

Blogging/Scrapbooking

I am not very good at this blogging thing.... probably because I am not very good at wriitng. I do like to record major events here just so that they are documented and saved for the future. I keep saying that I am going to start scrapbooking the piles and piles of pictures and mementos that I have put aside for that very purpose. I keep saying that when this or that is over then I will have time to do it but then I have other things come up and I still never get to it, but I keep saving everything so that I can scrapbook it (if I was at home I would take a picture of my piles of stuff... I will add that later). Maybe when I get home from Hawaii..... and after Mindy and the kids move back to Utah (sadly) then I will have too much time on my hands and will get to it, that is when I get past the sadness of them moving away from us. So blogging is a little easier then scrapbooking. Even though I'm not good at it, I do get some of the major events recorded here. I will get to that scrapbooking someday, maybe when Tyler goes on his mission, or maybe when I can convert one bedroom into a craft room, or maybe when Chad goes on his mission, or maybe when. . . . So in the mean time I will blog badly.