A little R&R for Seth & Kelly

Seth and I just got back from a wonderful 10-day vacation to the Big Island of Hawaii. Here is a link to our photos, if you want to look at all of them: http://picasaweb.google.com/kellyhennessey/Hawaii92007

We stayed in a condo in Kailua-Kona that was right on the beach. The photo above is from our lanai. It was literally about 15 feet from the edge of the water and when the tide went out, there was a little lagoon that remainded that usually had a turtle or two in it! We did all kinds of fun stuff. We did some relaxing in the form of laying on the beach, we did some snorkeling and saw lots of turtles and fish, we went on a 1/2 day kayaking trip down the coast, we did lots of driving (we put 800 miles on the car in the 10 days...the island is about 276 miles around!) and we did an awesome trip to the summit of Mauna Kea (13,760 ft) to watch the sunset and then gaze at the billions of stars that came out once the sun had gone away. Hawaiians have graffiti in the form of dead coral on lava rocks. The sides of the road are covered in the messages. We did this at South Point, the southern most point of the USA.

Sunset from 13,760 ft...an awesome site
Self-portrait in our tour-issued parkas and the observatories in the background.

Turtle resting on the black sand beach. There were quite a few of them just laying around sleeping.

Alistair stayed with his grandparents while we were away. He stayed the first part with Seth's parents and the rest with my parents. He did really well, slept and ate well and seemed to have a great time. He didn't really seem too fazed when he saw us when we got home. It was almost like he was thinking, "Oh yeah, you guys weren't here!" Since we have been back, he has been a little weary of where we are if we aren't in the room with him!