Aloha Day 2

So yesterday was even busier than the day before. In the morning we made our breakfast, and ate out on the veranda, which overlooks the ocean. It was so nice. After that we got in the car to go shopping. There is this fabric store that Julie has gone to several times. They had such a wonderful selection of fabric. She was looking for material to make curtains for her cabin, and I wanted to find some material to make myself a new blanket.


(Story behind the blanket... I promised that I would make all of the kids their very own blanket for their birthdays. Trevor is the only child who has one so far because I can't get the other kids to tell me which ones they want. Then I made myself one last year just before my back surgery, and Natalie immediately fell in love with it. So in June when it was Natalie's birthday she decided she did not want a blanket. She wanted Hannah Montana stuff. A week after her birthday she decided that she did want a blanket... mine. So I'm buying stuff to make myself a new one.)


Here's a picture of the material I selected. The colors won't show up as brightly as I want, but it gives a decent representation of them.

After we were done there we went to a tepanyaki restaurant that was right next to a Buddhist temple. I shouldn't have eaten there, though, because just as we were leaving to go on our trip I got a bad case of food poisoning. Yuck!

We came back to the hotel and ate dinner. After dinner we changed and went to snorkel with the manta rays. They had a lady there who recorded the whole excursion. She has done almost all of the photography of rays for Discovery Channel. She is named Martina, and she did a fantastic job. We were able to get a copy of the DVD she's making. We only had 2 rays come join us for the swim, but it was pretty cool. One was about 6' across, and one that was about 9' across. Yikes. It was kind of trippy. We were all attached to the boat originally, but the rays decided to go closer to the shore so we all left the ship and swam over closer to the shore. I got kicked in the face, stomach and arm with all of the fins, but I think everyone did. We also took some pictures with underwater cameras. We are going to drop them off to be developed. If they turned out I'll post those pictures here too.

Well we're off to Waimea (I think) so I'll post more later! Should be fun!