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Wet, Wet & Wetter! October 25th

Today is wet. Usually it does rain here, but it just kind of mists. But today is definately more then a mist. It is the big day! Today is the party for Grandma Tusi's big 80th birthday. We decorated the cultural hall at the Waialua building yesterday. We went to Pearl City to watch Jarret play soccer in the rain. I stayed in the car. I just don't have that black thick hair that looks the same whether it is dry or wet like everybody else. I was trying to preserve my hair. It was a waste of my time. It rained for the entire day. It never had a chance. Atina spent the day helping Laai'. I spent the day with the kids watching t.v. and playing nintendo games at the condo. Finally, it was time for the party. We dressed up and went dancing. The food was amazing. Laai'did an awesome job with the food and entertainment. She is Hawaiian Kumu(teacher) for her own hula performing group. She chants, plays the ukelele, sings & dances amazingly. Atina was the MC for the party. He did great. The grandkids from each family performed in between dancing numbers. Cookie sang first, then Taela, and cousin Pena danced with some of her friends for us, and Rhita performed tahitian dancing. Taela sang a cute song she learned in chior, Jeremiah was a Bullfrog. She did a good job! Atina and I were her stage dancers. If I say so myself, we've got some moves (well not really). Then we danced the night away. Taela and Myali couldn't get enough of the great band that was playing. We had food, entertainment, dancing and made new friends. What could be better then that? Okay, Grandma dancing tahitian with Rhita was pretty good. Who new she could shake it like that?

Turtles!!YEAH!!! October 24th

We had a little jet laggggggg! You could say we were off a little bit on our mountain standard time. We woke up at 3:45 a.m.. I mean wide awake. We waited for a lil sunlight, just the the light, the sun was still not quite up yet. We watched surfers and fishermen take the early time on the waves. Then we rolled Dad out of bed at 6:00 a.m.. We dressed for a nice morning walk on the beach. The kids were a little excited. This was the first time for all three of them to ever be on an ocean beach. Lets just say we don't go near the water now without our swimsuits. Myali was completely wet. We went exploring. Fortunately we didn't have to go far before we were swimming with turtles. We followed them, trying to get a better look at them. It was a family reunion of turtles. Finally, two came closer to the shoreline. Atina was all gungho on catching himself a turtle, since he caught a crab right off, he thought he was the great Johnny Wingo, the sharpest hunter on the island. It was quite the hoot watching him go in with his clothes on and then realizing that the turtles were not small, but huge. I mean huge!!! It was fun. We loved the turtles in our own little private cove. It wasn't a public beach so we had it all to ourselves.
Later on in the day we went to try our skills on a boogy board. I have to admit I was a little nervous going into the ocean. Once I caught a wave and rode it, I was addicted. I loved it! Waimea Bay had awesome waves for boarding. We spent the afternoon there more then once.

ALOHA!!!!!October 23rd 2008

We arrived on the Island of Oahu on Thursday afternoon. We met up with family from California and Austrailia in Haleiwa on the North Shore. We unloaded our stuff in our condo Haliewa Surf. We are on the Haleiwa shoreline, the famous surfing beach. Laa'i lives in Waialua, right up the street from historic downtown Haleiwa. Yes, Lyndi around the corner from Motsumoto's Shaved Ice. It was good. Who would think to put icecream under your snowcone! Laa'i told Grandma that she was having dinner with some of her friends on her birthday. Instead her children and grandchildren walked into the front room. She had no idea! Nice job Laa'i on the suprise.