The first two updates were solely focused on our progress on the house, so I thought, I would fill you in on our extracurricular activities and adventures.
On Tuesday us kids got in a little scrape, pun definately intended. Zander was instructing Mia on how to park in the library parking lot and we left a bit of paint on the white rental car next to us. We also have some damage but unlike the tourists with the white rental car we don't really care. They came out with three footlong red stripes while we got a 4 foot long scrape.
In our third weekend here, we went on a little beach hunting expedition and one of our stops was the Pololu outlook which is just past the northern most point of the island. The outlook was at the end of a narrow, windy road with a few parking spaces for us tourists. There were tons of tourists, from backpackers to Asian tourists with big cameras and Bermuda shorts. After a short, steep descent there was a some trees with rope swings hanging of them and tiers scattered about. The trail went through the trees and came out in a very rocky beach with tons of rock tower/piles. We didn't stay for very long, just long enough to take a look around and for Sarah to take a swim.
The other stop on the beach hunt was the biggest white sand beach on the island, which wasn't very big. The beach was pretty small by California standards but for a relatively brand new island, Hawaii has some great beaches. The water color is the most beautiful blue-turquoise imaginable. Hapuna beach was supper touristy, kind of like Avila beach in Cali.
The 4th of July festivities in Kona started with a parade through the downtown at around six in the afternoon. After the parade there was a chaotic firecracker festival that ended in an awesome fireworks show. The parade was pretty boring but the fire and explosions afterwards made up for it. The firecracker chaos was so cool. People just started seting of fireceackers on the street in the middle of downtown. The air was so thick with smoke I felt like I was choking but all the noise and explosives kept me alert. After a half hour of chaos and ice cream everyone settled down to watch the firework show over the harbor. The fireworks were pretty great, they even atemted to spell out USA, but the U came up upside down.
The King's swim was last Saturday at eight in the morning in the Kona harbor. The King's swim is run by Steve, our swim coach and he was adamant that the whole swim team participated. We had to be there at 6:50 the day after the 4th of July, to say I wasn't very happy about that would be an understatement. Imagine waking up at such an ungodly hour just to swim 1.2 miles around a harbor, it was torture. Just kidding, it was OK because we got free food and t-shirts.
So far we have been keeping pretty close to Kona which is OK because it's really nice here, but I think we are all getting a little restless. Soon I hope we get around to visiting Hilo, one of the volcanoes and just explore more of the island. Bye.
By Kayley Sienna Rolph
On Tuesday us kids got in a little scrape, pun definately intended. Zander was instructing Mia on how to park in the library parking lot and we left a bit of paint on the white rental car next to us. We also have some damage but unlike the tourists with the white rental car we don't really care. They came out with three footlong red stripes while we got a 4 foot long scrape.
In our third weekend here, we went on a little beach hunting expedition and one of our stops was the Pololu outlook which is just past the northern most point of the island. The outlook was at the end of a narrow, windy road with a few parking spaces for us tourists. There were tons of tourists, from backpackers to Asian tourists with big cameras and Bermuda shorts. After a short, steep descent there was a some trees with rope swings hanging of them and tiers scattered about. The trail went through the trees and came out in a very rocky beach with tons of rock tower/piles. We didn't stay for very long, just long enough to take a look around and for Sarah to take a swim.
The other stop on the beach hunt was the biggest white sand beach on the island, which wasn't very big. The beach was pretty small by California standards but for a relatively brand new island, Hawaii has some great beaches. The water color is the most beautiful blue-turquoise imaginable. Hapuna beach was supper touristy, kind of like Avila beach in Cali.
The 4th of July festivities in Kona started with a parade through the downtown at around six in the afternoon. After the parade there was a chaotic firecracker festival that ended in an awesome fireworks show. The parade was pretty boring but the fire and explosions afterwards made up for it. The firecracker chaos was so cool. People just started seting of fireceackers on the street in the middle of downtown. The air was so thick with smoke I felt like I was choking but all the noise and explosives kept me alert. After a half hour of chaos and ice cream everyone settled down to watch the firework show over the harbor. The fireworks were pretty great, they even atemted to spell out USA, but the U came up upside down.
The King's swim was last Saturday at eight in the morning in the Kona harbor. The King's swim is run by Steve, our swim coach and he was adamant that the whole swim team participated. We had to be there at 6:50 the day after the 4th of July, to say I wasn't very happy about that would be an understatement. Imagine waking up at such an ungodly hour just to swim 1.2 miles around a harbor, it was torture. Just kidding, it was OK because we got free food and t-shirts.
So far we have been keeping pretty close to Kona which is OK because it's really nice here, but I think we are all getting a little restless. Soon I hope we get around to visiting Hilo, one of the volcanoes and just explore more of the island. Bye.
By Kayley Sienna Rolph
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