Kickin Back

Sunday December 3: The morning was a normal one, waking up with the light of dawn, getting ready for church, ect. But the thing that was not normal this Sunday was the church service. What struck us all as strange (especially for Casey) was that there was no sermon; just music and Christmas traditions. It helped us appreciate how important it is to worship God and not just be entertained.

When we returned to the condo, we looked outside and decided that it would be a good time to go to the beach as a family, so we walked down and swam instead of building our third Kahana Kastle (don’t worry, we’ll make one before our time is done).

Coming back from the beach, I luckily went a different way than that of everyone else. My Mom, bros, and my grandma all saw a very freaky eel with its babies dead around it. They had to come home and show us a picture of it so that we would be grossed out too, but, as you see, I made it through with only minor casualties.

Our Grandparents on my Mom’s side left after that, but not without getting a family photo. The strange thing is, though, they left to go only thirty miles away. Oh yeah, I almost forgot (I kinda wanted to)...we ran. Sprinted four and a half miles. Almost died while running. Not fun. But we made it through the pain. And later, went to sleep.

Monday, Monday

Monday December 4: Did nothing until we headed off to snorkel (I will get some pictures posted when our cd gets developed). We went to Kapalua Bay which is different from black rock in that it is mostly a black coral bottom - a perfect place for eels and sea snakes (we saw both). Getting done we came home and played a couple of games. But then we headed off to the Mixed Plate restaurant where we ate many different things (notice the title). The road out of there was a short one getting to the mall and to the Banyan tree, with birds a singing. My Mom even got a present from one of them on her head. And with that, I double-dog dared my Dad to go out there and stand in the middle for a least a minute and then he could dare me to do something. So he took his opportunity and did it. What did he dare me to do? He made me sing "Happy Birthday" out loud to myself in the park. But, I had to do it, so I did. We then made it home, going to sleep later on, with nothing more to tell.