Winding down from a wonderful 1st month.

This is the falls that fed the creek over which the suspension bridge was when we zipped on Saturday. I was doing fine on the suspension bridge until I realized the holes in it were just about my size. They had a cable going above the bridge, though, and my harness was hooked to the cable. That didn't make me feel a whole lot better, so I rushed right over after I got this picture. There are more falls and rainbows in Hawaii than can be counted. What a good thing, because I'm so lousy at counting anymore!

Today has been another day that we took it kind of easy and hung around pretty close to the house. We did go carousing around this afternoon and drove past some beautiful homes near the beach at Puako. We had collected some coral and we intended to make our names in the lava with the coral, but it rained when we were there. We took that as a message that we weren't supposed to do it. So we took the coral back to the beach where we got it and came back home. We enjoyed our outing, anyway. We stopped at a wood show in an art gallery and enjoyed viewing some beautiful local workmanship.

Tomorrow Tom and Linda will be getting ready to leave as their flight goes out Wednesday night. Bob and Mimi will be home on Thursday, so we'll be getting everything ready to leave ourselves on Friday. We'll pick up Bob and Mimi on Thursday and then spend that night here. Then Karen leaves on Friday, so she's picking us up and we'll take her to the airport and then go back to her house to sit for the next month. We'll be about 20 miles from Bob and Mimi, so we'll be doing some things with them during that month, I'm sure. We'll be packing on Wednesday so that we'll be all ready to go early Friday morning when Karen comes for us.

It's been such a wonderful month. We always love it here; it seems just like home to us. Bob must have been raised a lot like me because everything here seems so right. The cats seem to love us, as we do them. It's just a good experience for us. It's wonderful to have other good friends join us. We feel really blessed to have the opportunity to house-sit here. Usually we dont' get to see Bob much, but this time we did before he left and we'll be staying nearby another month, so we'll see him again. This is really great! We've sure missed the whales we enjoyed in the winter the last time we were here, but we've even enjoyed missing them because the recollections were so nice. Thank you, God, for all of this.