Adventures in Hawaii

Mimi gave me an assignment.  To type up an account of her adventures here in Hawaii, trip of 2010.  The following is from her perspective but I wrote it (and put my own little spin on things *cough*).

Monday, August 23rd: Arrived @ around 1:45 pm. Gave quilts to the kids. Ate. Went to bed.


Tuesday, August 24th: Went on a walk with Shelly. Tire blew. Shelly asked if I was in the quilting business. Asked if I wanted to make a baby quilt. Jaw dropped. Hit the pavement. Drove through Ho’omanu botanical gardens. Walked to the lake. Sat on a bench. Watched the kids feed ducks and fish. Made Micaiah take lots of pictures of trees and stuff. Went home. Put feet up. Went to watch Micaiah do her ballet. Returned home. Ate. Slept for about an hour and a half. Woke up and started talking randomly to Micaiah who was trying to read her book. Went back to sleep.

Wednesday, August 25th: Visited Pearl Harbor. Made Micaiah take lots more pictures. Rode the little ferry out to the USS Arizona. Went home. Relaxed. Accompanied Abi to ice-skating lesson. Froze. Got into the car. Defrosted. Drove up Tantalus (Isaac’s time-trial ride 4.5 miles up, lots of sharp turns). Sat in the rain and watched cats and chickens. Ate our picnic dinner. Was too cloudy to see sunset. Watched it from Tripler instead. Made Micaiah take EVEN MORE pictures. Went home. Slept.

Thursday, August 26th: Toured the Bishop Museum. Could not make Micaiah take pictures (not allowed). Planetarium show and Lava demonstration. Got Taco Bell. Went home. Ate. Shopped at Fabric Mart. Almost fainted.
We walked in and she saw all the fabric and she was all like, “Wow!! That’s a LOT of cloth!!” Then she saw the prices, “WOW!! Those are some good prices!!” “We haven’t even got to the clearance section, Mimi…” “There’s a clearance section?! This is crazy!!”
                                                                                  -Micaiah recounting their shopping trip to Dad.
Watched Micaiah dance…again. Tried not to think about how Micaiah’s toes must be feeling. Went home. Ate. Shopped at the NEX for ALOHA wear. Returned home. Slept…some more.

Friday, August 27th: Ate big breakfast. Waffles. Played mad-scientist by experimenting with cinnamon in the last two waffles. Went to Bellows beach. Watched the kids play in the waves. Bear was very brave. Walked way too far out for my heart-rate. Never fell once. It rained. So we ran under the shelter. It stopped. Patrick started up the grill. Formed a wall with towels to block the wind. Ate hamburgers and hotdogs. And chips, and potato salad, and watermelon and THE MOST DELICIOUS BROWNIES EVER MADE by Micaiah. Out of a box. Tried to wash sand off. Failed. Drove home. Showered. Ate. Went to bed at around 7:30 for an ABSOLUTELY CRAZY EARLY start the next morning to see a sunrise that you could see in a picture some other time. Like in the afternoon.

Saturday, August 28th: Woke up at 3:45 AM and invited Abi to come snuggle in my bed. Thought she’d be quiet and go to sleep. Thought wrong. Abi demonstrated the different noises that her alarm clock could make. Played cricket mode. Played the seashore mode. Woke Micaiah up by playing the waterfall mode. Micaiah was cranky. Micaiah doesn’t like being woke up at 4:15 in the morning. Micaiah doesn’t like hearing a waterfall when it’s been at least eight hours since her last bathroom trip. Micaiah threatened to go tell Shelly. I giggled. Uncontrollably. Micaiah couldn’t get back to sleep. Piled in the car for the trip to the other side of the island to watch the sunrise at the Poly look-out. Made Micaiah take lots more pictures. Watched chickens hens and loads of chicks (a group of 11 and a group of 8). Listened to some really obnoxious roosters. Ate muffins. Drove around the windward side of the island toward the North Shore and Sharks Cove. Waded around and looked at fish. Became very adventurous and waded out further towards the kids who where surrounded by fish. Stood and watched for a while. Slipped. Almost drowned.
                                  (insert by Micaiah) “The water didn’t even reach your neck.”
So? Shelly saved me. Ate at Pizza Bob’s. Browsed through some little shops around the North Shore Shopping Place. Received a free elephant. Drove home (got to see Isaac’s first race course- Haleiwa Hills from Hell). Arrived home. Napped till 4. Showered. Ate Feast. Went to bed.

Sunday, August 29th: Went to Trinity Presbyterian for church service. Enjoyed meeting (and re-meeting) people there. Had lunch at Teddy’s Bigger Burgers. Shopped around Kailua. Found a great shop called Red Bamboo. Bought some souvenirs for people back in MO. Drove home for a relaxing afternoon.

The end...for now.

~RM