Day: January 5, 2013

On Leilani’s actual birthday, she got to open all the presents from her parents, relatives, and Lisa who was visiting. There was no cake (that would be for the party the next day), but Sonja made marzipan animals as a sweet treat, and gave Leilani some candles to blow out:

Andy was in San Francisco, but thanks to modern technology, he could be “there” too:


… and that’s probably the last photo of my macbook. I’m a bit sad that it’s broken. At the age of 7 years I suppose I won’t have anyone try to fix it anymore… But I am so happy I got all the data off…

Just what Leilani loves: figurines, puzzles, and a vintage playhouse for her Barbies:

Sonja’s holiday craftiness using the recently collected beach glass (Leilani made some of these too, and Andy took some of the pictures):

Leilani put so much easy-comb stuff in her hair that we could have made her into Pippi Longstocking

Thai curry, made from scratch with true coconut milk (also made from scratch by opening, scraping, grating, and pressing mature coconuts):

More Ahukini feral cats:

True colors, not photoshopped….

We picked up the raw material for our Christmas gifts:

On our way home we stopped at Ahuikini Pier:

Still in the 2nd week of November. It was almost as if we were still on vacation. We really took every free moment to enjoy our beautiful island. This is the Kuilau Ridge trail near the arboratum, inland of Kapa’a.

Leilani loves to climb trees:

We arrived at the shelter just in time for the clouds to roll in…


and a refreshing little rain with beautiful rainbows.

Yes I photoshopped it a lot, maybe a bit too much, and the original got lost when my laptop died. I think it really did look like this, just the camera did not pick it up.

The trail a little bit beyond the shelter:

The Sleeping Giant, seen from behind:

Back at the arboretum