We got word that Sean would be leaving to go work in Hawaii for a while when the new year began and I told him that we were coming. As I write this I am sitting on the 30th floor staring out at the beautiful blue water of Waikiki beach. We are across the street from the zoo and that has been a lot of fun. We sit out and eat dinner on the lanai every night and watch the elephants and giraffes. The monkey's entertain us with their banter every morning around 9am. The boys are enjoying the fact that we can just walk down to the beach and play in the sand for hours.
Yesterday we spent the day at the Lyon Arboretum since it was overcast and raining for part of the day. This was a beautiful rainforest of plants and canopies of huge trees. As we walked around I noticed that the majority of the huge plants were larger versions of our house plants. I got a huge laugh out of this. The boys wanted to try the hike up through the forest to a waterfall. I figured we would give it a try and was so proud that they made it without any complaints. They enjoyed the hike as did I and I took so many pictures my camera battery died on the way back down. As we were hiking we kept hearing these screeches in the trees that sounded like monkeys but came to find out as we got further in the forest that they were Wild Cockatoos and when they flew out of the trees they were spectacular. Nothing like the ones in the animal stores back home, these birds were huge like eagles and had such amazing wing spans. I was definitely in awe! Then we hiked back down and walked around the gardens below and watched the little green parrots in the trees. We did get eaten alive by the mosquitoes and are paying for that today but we are headed down to the beach now so I am sure we will soon forget about the bites.
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