First Day in Hawaii!

This is just outside Jeanna's back door. Kate loves collecting the flowers that she has in her hair. They are everywhere and grow on trees, and fall off and they are on the ground. They smell GREAT. Jeanna's not here to tell me what kind of flowers they are but there is "beauty all around" around here. Flowers and trees. We went for a walk to keep the kids awake when we got here (because of the time difference) and we passed all sorts of fruit trees as we walked to feed the fish. There were mango, papaya, banana and another kind of fruit that is huge and looks like green grapefruit (again, Jeanna's not here to help with whatever it was).

At first this gave me a little anxiety to have the kids feed the fish here, because I could just see a kid accidentally pushed in. I slowly adjusted enough to take these pictures. We went to the park afterwards and came back and made dinner.

And for all of our efforts keeping my kids up late until 9:30 so that they would adjust to the time difference (which probably ended up to be near 10 after they stopped coming out for hearing scary sounds). They were up wide eyed and bushy tailed at 4 am.

We miss Daddy lots and lots. Michael usually makes Kate chocolate milk in the mornings (she's not a big breakfast eater, and she has chocolate carnation instant breakfast every morning). So, when she woke up at 4 am she said "Can you call Daddy and ask him to make my chocolate milk!"