Monday, October 29, 2007
Aloha from the Big Island of Hawaii!
Plane ride across the Pacific was rather long and boring. Sarah had a backpack full of new toys and painted her nails THE ENTIRE 5 HOURS. Becca had a backpack full of new toys and looked at them all within 11.5 seconds, requiring me to entertain her (aka keeping her from kicking the seat in front of her) for the other 4 hours, 59 minutes, and 48.5 seconds. In the brilliant Mom move of all time, I had Sarah paint Becca’s nails for 45 minutes. And Becca did watch part of the Harry Potter movie onboard, though I’m sure it wasn’t pleasant for others around us (Becca yelling: WHY IS THAT DRAGON ATTACKING THAT BOY?! WHAT IS THAT GLOWY THING?! WHY IS THAT TEACHER MEAN?! WHICH ONE IS HARRY POTTER?!)
And the last couple days have been Becca Getting Used To The Time Change. When Becca’s tired, she just goes native. She has been poking, yanking, smacking, climbing, and otherwise misbehaving… as well as loud-talking and eating objects that aren’t food. In fact, at lunch yesterday, one of the nearby parrots actually said STOP IT, BECCA! Repeating the phrase that has been the most often used the last 2 days!
Well, that’s not the funny-kind-of part. THAT would have to do with the 2nd day we were here.
So we arrived here at around dinnertime the first day. Day 2 we woke up to… a WILDFIRE. Big puffs of billowing smoke that closed the highway north of us. Ash lightly snowing on our balcony. That familiar smell we thought we were escaping.
The natives were very nonchalant about it. Apparently this happens a lot here and because the island is only inhabited on the perimeter, they pretty much let the fires run their course with only a little containment help.
But we were pretty freaked out, especially Don, who I venture to say, experienced many of the same feelings of when we were evacuated.
As of last night’s luau, the fires were all but gone. Nice luau – dancing girls and open bar can erase a lot of trauma…
6 comments:
Oh gosh - anytime I read about Becca, I can literally see her in my mind's eye, doing what you've described. The plane trip must have just been such fun! It certainly is entertaining from this end, anyway!
But did you eat poi?
And why are you blogging while you are in Hawaii? My sister is such a nerd.
I did not eat poi. I am only eating things I love. That looked nasty, even after 2 mai tais.
And yes. I am a nerd.
Here is a non-refutable offer. Send us Becca for six months and you and Don chill. All of our friends are grandparents from our generation...she will settle down immediately just to keep her sanity.
We have put a stamp on her forehead. She'll be there tuesday.
We'll be waiting!!!!!
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