Pali Lookout

We recently checked out a place called Pali Lookout. Its where King Kamehameha battled to unite all the Islands together. He did that by pushing the opposing tribe off the edge of the cliff to fall to their death. Pretty gruesome. Especially the a picture of the event, which was how Shaun found out about the place. One of his coworkers had a big painting of it up on his wall. Shaun of course thought "Awesome! Where is this place?" Thus the excursion to the historical site. I don't know if it is always this windy, but it was pretty intense up there, and of course absolutely beautiful.

This is a compiled video of the trip. A picture of the battle is in there. Towards the end Izzy was crying because the wind was so strong that she was blown off her feet and it scared her so bad because she thought she was going to get blown away. I had just turned the camera on so I didn't get a shot of the wind blowing her off her feet, just only afterwards. Poor sweet little girl.

Homemade Facepaint

Izzy wanted to try the homemade facepaint recipe. It asked for simple ingredients: corn starch, cold cream, water and food coloring. It came out a bit watery but I think that's because I forgot to measure out the water before I asked Isabel to pour it in. We still had fun with it and it keeps for a while in a container. Only problem is that the food coloring in the paint does leave a faint coloring on your skin even if you wash it off with soap.

Ian didn't like it at first. I don't know why. He just didn't like how it felt I guess.

Izzy wanted a butterfly

After the initial shock Ian wanted me to keep going and this was what he wanted.

I let Izzy and Ian take turns painting my face. All in all I had a lot of fun and I think the kids did too.

Some fun in the sun with my brother Jeremy and sister-in-law Kennan

My brother and his wife had already made plans to be in Hawaii before we even arrived so it was fabulous to have family here with us so soon from arriving. I was able to pick them up from the airport and give them my first Aloha welcome, complete with a lei, and take them back to our place as our first guest. I so loved having them here! It was fabulous. The next morning I treated them to my famous french toast and then off on a bit of a tour of the island. We started with a visit to a place called The Byodo-In Temple. Pretty cool place. Pictures and videos speak for themselves. Then we drove around up to North Shore and showed them one of our favorite snorkeling sites called Pupukea. After that we stopped for some delicious snow cones on the way home. The pictures are not in order. I didn't have the time to put them on right, sorry.
Thanks Jeremy and Kennan for such a wonderful time. Please come back soon!

This is Ian going "Ahhhhh" while smacking his tummy with how delicious the snow cones were.

Overlooking Pupukea

At Byodo-In Temple touching the turtles that were everywhere.
Lightening incense at the temple.

Burning an incense in hope that my peace offering for wealth and good health will be heard

Part of the Temple grounds You can ring the bell, which is pretty loud but pretty awesome too

Of course Ian had to do it

Inside the Byodo-In Temple.

You need to watch the 5th video down first to understand what happened. Basically there is this little Buddha statue for people to lay down their offerings to receive blessings and Isabel just thought somebody lost their "offering" on the ground and had picked them up and put them in her pocket. I couldn't help laughing at how innocently sweet she is.

Ian and his cute self. Don't know where he gets it from

The delicious snow cones in all their glory!

There will always be at least one of Shaun's documentary under-the-water film.

Look what I found!

Ian rings the bell.

Crossing the bridge over to Byodo-In

Starfish at Pupukea