Aloha

We had a fairly quiet ten days in which we watched Courtney play one basketball game and saw Erica in her drum band, Vertigo and prepared for our Hawaiian adventure.

Nathan and family met us in Vancouver and after a layover of a couple of hours we settled in to our Air Canada flight.  We arrived at our beach house late last night (well before 10 p.m. Hawaiian time) and we were all exhausted.

It wasn't quite like I was expecting.  The waves were high and roared as they reached the wall at the back of the yard and the salt water flew four feet into the air.  It was very warm and humid reminding Liam of Nova Scotia and me of Nanjing.  It was hard to sleep - either the room air conditioner was loud or if the windows were open the roaring of the ocean was loud.

Everyone except me  has been down at the beach this morning.  It is quite cold in the water - at least the little boys came back shivering.  Bob said it was the warmest ocean water he has been in.   Here are a few pictures taken from the upstairs balcony.