Steph and Michelle are on the way to New Zealand (Hawai'i week 2)

Week 2 of the Hawaiian trip has come and gone. It was an interesting week. Last Wednesday evening we went to a luau that was exciting. The Island Breeze Keikei (children) had a Christmas performance for us, which was very cute.

Then we saw the pig being removed from the imu and watched a renactment of the landing of the royal family and learned about some Hawaiian history.

We ate an amazing amount of food and watched dances from several Polynesian islands.


The fire dancer was pretty exciting as well.

The following day we went to Hilo on the other side of the island. On the was we stopped at the Akaka falls, the tallest waterfall on the island. It was pretty sweet.

I took some pictures of the messages on the side of the highway. People write things with the white rocks to contrast with the dark rock. I found a place near the bay where I could write my own and take pictures.



Over the weekend I was sick with a virus that's been hanging around the island for weeks. I'm feeling much better now.

We spent Christmas Day at the beach and it was a pretty low key kind of day.

Yesterday we went to the Mauna Kea beach, which was a really nice beach. No rocks at this beach. I made a camel and a turtle out of sand, both of which disappeared pretty quickly after the photos were taken, thanks to a certain 4 year old's enthusiasm for destruction.

There's only another 5 days lefft before we're back in LA and only 18 days of work left.