The Glass Beach

Our neighbors were telling us about some of the cool free stuff to do on the island. They told us about the Glass Beach. Apparently back in the day, they used to dump garbage at this beach. In the garbage was a lot of glass bottles. Over time the whole beach turned into glass!! It was really cool!!

Side note- Our neighbors are from Tennessee and they have that great southern accent. One day Dave (the Tennessean) was helping Scott put together his grill. After about 30 minutes Scott was speaking with a southern accent!! It was hilarious! Also, the other day they brought us some cheesy grits! Yummy!

Kirk the Painter

The sign on the building at Scott's work needed a little love. Since Kirk is a painter, and he got to go on a helicopter ride (that he loved!), he thought he would pay for the ride with a little home improvement.
Dane and I hung around and watched him work. It looks great!!

CRAZY Rain Storm

We live on the dry side of the island. It is weird that there is a dry side since the rainiest/wettest spot on earth is on Kauai. We get about 15 inches of rain a year compared to Mt. Wai'ale'ale that gets 500 inches a year and is only about 20 minutes away. Crazy!
Anyway, the other day I was just chillin at home and all of a sudden I heard this really loud noise! It scared me to death!! It was the rain!! It all came at once! I ran out an took these pictures. It was this wet only after about 10 seconds!! I thought it was crazy!

Boat Ride with Captin Kirk!

Scott set up this awesome boat ride for us to go on! We were a little nervous about how Dane would like it, but he did great!!
It was a 6 hour ride to the west side of the island, called the Na'pali Coast. It was beautiful!! They served us a little breakfast and a great lunch. They also stopped for about an hour and let us all go snorkeling!! A first for me! It was awesome!!



Pictures
#1 Right when we boarded the ship. Dane looks happy there, but a few minutes later we had to put his life jacket on. He threw the biggest fit!!

#2 & #3- About 20 minutes into the ride we spotted some dolphins!! There were about 200! They were amazing!! They swam right up to the boat and played. They did tricks and everything!! I LOVED it!

#4,#5,& #6- The boys! Having a great time!

#7- All of us gettin some fresh air!

#8-The Na'pali Coast

#9, 10, &11- This is when all 3 of the boys started to get sea sick! Scott had it the worst. He was GREEN and he wouldn't let us talk to him. Poor guys. Dane slept through most of his sickness (about 3 hours) and Kirk tried to ignore his sickness.

#12- More beautiful coast.

#13- Dane saw a "pirate ship". He kelp saying "wook pirates!!" So cute!!

#14- This guy had the worst sickness. He was slumped over for most of the trip. He threw up about 4 times! Poor guy!

Easter and Randomness

We had our first holiday in Hawaii!! Easter morning we went to the park a few blocks from our house to the Easter egg hunt.
When we got there we realized we forgot to buy an Easter egg basket! So we used the camera case! Lame.
When it was time to get the eggs Dane and I ran out there to start picking them up. He got 3 when he eyeballed the perfect blue egg! He started to run for it, but another kid got to it before he did. And that was the end of the race for us. Dane fell on the ground and refused to get anymore eggs! A nice lady even tried to pick him, but he wouldn't have it!!
It was fun anyway. I thought it was interesting because all the eggs were boiled! No candy for the kids!!

In Kauai, if you take your trash to the dump, but you think someone might want something that you are throwing away, you put those items NEXT to the dump. So Scott was at the dump when he saw Dane's "motorcycle". Scott brought it home and right away Dane said "Wook!!! A green motocycle!" He has loved it ever since!! I guess one man's trash is really another man's treasure!!

Animals And Waterfalls

This week was eventful!
(For this first "event" I don't have a picture.)
Dane and I were walking home from the post office, which is about 3 blocks away. But we were in the mood to linger, so we took a longer route home. I think I was looking down at my phone when Dane said "Wook mama! A doggie!" I looked up at the dog, it was about half a block away. It looked weird to me. A short, fat, big dog. When my eyes really focused I realized I was looking at a wild boar!!! Once I figured that out, it charged at a bunch of dogs that were barking at it!! Needless to say, after a moment the dogs stopped barking!! I was terrified!! I picked up Dane and started to run! I was looking for a place to hide if it came at me. There were a lot of trucks that were parked, I was going to jump into one of them! I called Scott and my mom and told them what I saw. Scott wasn't really sure that I had in fact, seen a wild boar, it was probably a dog. So, I started to question myself. I told him to ask the locals that he works with if it was possible that I had seen a boar. My mom told me to call the police. I didn't. I went home and googled "Hawaiian Boars". It was confirmed. I really did see one! Scott confirmed with the locals that I saw one. Apparently it isn't that uncommon. Yes, they are dangerous if they are scared. But they don't have good eye sight in the light of day. That night Scott came home and wanted to play tennis. I saw the boar right by the tennis courts!! We are all safe!!
Event #2 (picture #1)
Scott saw a toad in our yard. What else can I say.
Event #3 (the remainder of the pictures)
Scott finally had a day off!! So we went exploring! There is a waterfall that we wanted to see, so we packed up and went!! We had to hike down to the falls. It made me a little nervous because it was a steep trail and it wasn't smooth and we had Dane with us. So I made Scott carry him. He did a great job. It took us about 40 minutes to hike down and we had to cross the river twice. (I had my big nice camera with me! I was SO scared that I was going to fall and ruin it!) Once we got there it was worth it!! We will be going back to that one!
We took a different trail back up. It was about an 8 minute hike, but it was STRAIGHT UP!! It was slippery and there were ropes everywhere to help. There were also a massive amount of tree roots that helped a ton! Dane did SUCH a good job!! He loved it! He was singing the whole way up the trial. So cute!! I think we have a hiker!
It was a great day!!