We have spent another couple of great days! Monday was a beautiful day and I spent most of the day reading my wonderful book…which by the way does have some questionable material included…but what the heck at my age it really doesn’t matter any more…but I did finish the book “A Song for Arbonne” which took alot longer than I anticipated. I finished it late last night after everyone else was in bed.

We enjoyed the sun again on Monday. Jerry and Joanne spent a couple of hours feeding the fish…here Jerry will talk a bit…we picked up some fish food from a local deli and the coral reef was only about 3 feet deep. Met a couple from Nebraska who lent me their snorkeling equipment and while I snorkeled, Joanne fed the fish food into the water. Within minutes a couple of hundred tropical fish were swarming around our legs! I thought Joanne would freak out! As a result of all the fish the multitude of kids and parents came rushing through the water to see all the fish. Joanne, in one of her rash moments, threw some fish food in front a 5 or 6 year old kid, who at the time had put his head into the water to look at the fish. The result was a couple of hundred fish rushing toward the face of this young kid who practically crapped his drawers…what a great laugh! We are going back there tomorrow to see if we can scare a few kids. This time Dwight and Gloria are going with us.

The sun is simply wonderful here. I have spent so much time in the warm sunshine and with the breeze continually coming off the ocean…it is absolutely amazing. On Sunday afternoon we spent a couple of hours in the ocean playing in the breaking waves. It was incredible as the tide began to come in and the waves got bigger and bigger. Jerry, Joanne and I all ended up with sore legs, knees and ankles, from bracing ourselves against the waves.

We watched the local kids run down the beach and jump on their boards as they hit the water…when they hit the first breaking wave they were airborne and did flips in the air and landed back on their boards. I didn’t try it! This was a great place “to eat sand” and drink “salt water”!!!

We travelled on the east side towards the north side of the island today. We went up to Hanalei Bay where apparently South Pacific was filmed many years ago. There was mostly rain today, but it was so hot and humid you could hardly breathe sometimes. Jerry and Dwight both bought Hawaiian shorts today so blended in well with all the other tourists!!! We also went to a place called “Beezers” for ice cream today. The guy who ran the place was absolutely crazy and talked so loud…it was quite funny when he asked us what we all did for a profession…before this he had been swearing, asking about our sex life, and being relatively outspoken and gross…when it came to me and I said I was a minister, he just laughed loud, and it ended up that he had been raised in a strong Methodist home and had gone to a Lutheran College on a basketball scholarship…it was here he started questioning and is still on that road of questions! The whole episode was quite funny and we left having had a great laugh.

That’s about it for now! We are heading out to find a place to eat and then head back to our condo to either watch a movie or play some cards. We have had some great card games…the last time we played Joanne won…it was amazing! Jerry says “He let her win”! So typical isn’t it!!!

Thanks for all your comments! Matt,it is so good to read your comments…or were they yours Jesika! We haven’t heard from you Tamara!