ALOHA!!

It is great to finally be hear and to be getting settled in. We rented a home for the next four months (found it on craigslist and had it all arranged before we arrived). It is fully furnished and will be a great home for a while. It is in a great neighborhood and we've already enjoyed the community pool twice in the las 2 1/2 days since being here. I imagine we will make it to either the pool or the beach almost daily! We went to the beach last night. We didn't get there until after 4pm so it had started to cool off some (sunset is around 6:30) but we still had a blast!! The Waikoloa Canoe Club showed up while we were there and we got to watch them practice for there race in Hilo this weekend. There were over 20 kids in the club...6 to a boat. It looked like a lot of fun and a good thing for the kids to do.

Isaac and Olivia both Snorkeled a bit. I was amazed at how quickly they picked it up. Olivia's clip just shows her doing it for a short while but she actually could stay under quite a while. Adam and Dawson haven't been interested in trying yet. Isaac sure feels at home in the Ocean (must be all the time he spent in the ocean in Saipan during his first year). He really wants to learn to surf and I'm sure he'll be very successful at it once he starts (not for a while yet...I want his swimming skills to be really strong).