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Published: February 27th 2006
Waipi'o
Waipi'o Valley - including the Scott's friends from Oahu and CAI think i left with Friday, right? Saturday - just because i knew i was allowed to sleep in as late as possible, of course my eyes spring open at 7:30. Tell me i've gotta be awake by 9, and i'll sleep all day. I'm weird. We did a lot of cleaning and grocery shopping Saturday in preparation of Sunday's plans. The Scott's bookstudy was assigned to feed Sunday's visiting speaker for their hall, so we were going to cook for that; we were asked to bring a covered dish to the party in the afternoon, and since Dave was the outgoing speaker at another hall and a family had
us for hospitality, Kathy wanted to make something to bring. Saturday evening, someone from their bookstudy called and said we dont have to bring anything, and that she'd cook extra for the speaker. So that was checked off the list. On Sunday we drove to the Kohala congregation for Dave's talk. The drive was long and curvy - almost meriting car sickness... but the view was awesome. Everyone in the Kohala hall was very welcoming. Very small though, 85 people were there. Dave did a wonderful job, as always, and we
ended up staying about 45 minutes after the meeting ended to talk to everyone. The family who had hospitality invited us to their home and they were going to grill out. The wife was from Oahu, i dunno where the husband was from. They had a son, 6, and daughter, 5. They were sooooo cute!! Their how was spectacular; it was situated on a hill with the rear patio overlooking the ocean. We spotted a couple whales while we were eating. The entrance walkway has ponds on either side - the right side is fed by a rock waterfall, the left is filled with about a dozen koi fish. The inside was very spacious and bright - there were floor-to-ceiling windows everywhere. After dinner, i watched the Heffalump movie with the kids... When they said the theater is on the left, they meant the
theater is on the left. It was like a mini Crossroads 20... stadium leather seats that recline, surround sound, huge screen, and even the diamond-shaped faint lights on the walls, lol. You haven't
lived until you've seen the heffalump movie in surround sound. After that, the little boy and i played football in the yard while
the little girl was trying to teach me how to hula. "Isolate your back and swing those hips!" she'd say. They were sooo adorable! They're coming on my carry-on's back home, with Brittany and Thomas. By the time we left, it was too late to go to the congregation party, so we went to an icecream shop in downtown kohala and then stopped at an overlook to see the ocean and more valleys. It was raining by then, but it was still gorgeous. This morning it's raining again... pouring in the front, nothing in the back... For real, you can like have a picnic in the backyard and dress totally different with an umbrella for the front yard. Crazy like a fox.
Now here's some pictures to prove i'm still in Hawaii. 😊
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Pumpkin
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#1- These shady pictures of you prove nothing. They're so out of focus you may as well be in Chinatown somewhere north of Clayton. #2- I want to LIVE! I want to see the Huffalump movie in surround-sound too!! #3- Carlie keeps praying that you will be safe on your "hula trip". #4- there's no real number four comment here, so I'll just say come home now. I miss ya. #5- If I check my email every 17.3 minutes to see if I have a new blog from you, does that mean I have no life?