We took a bus tour with students today to see the sights around Honolulu. Our first stop was to head up above the city for the views. Diamondhead Crater is in the background of the 2nd photo.
Another stop was the famous "blowhole" where the surf comes up through a hole formed by lava. The first photo above is the blowhole, but it didn't quite cooperate for us. The second photo is the beach from the film "From Here to Eternity."
We stopped at another park where we had great views of the snorklers....
...but Barek was more fascinated with the wild chickens and roosters that were running around the park amidst the beautiful trees. That's our guide, Shannon, in-between Charis and Barek in photo above. He had a great sense of humor which the kids really enjoyed.
In the afternoon, the boys took a cab to Kmart to buy some last-minute "necessities" before leaving the states: Uno, socks, Twizzlers and toothpaste. Charis and I took the bus back to Wakiki for some shopping. Charis was able to get in some phone calls on my cell before leaving the states.
Another stop was the famous "blowhole" where the surf comes up through a hole formed by lava. The first photo above is the blowhole, but it didn't quite cooperate for us. The second photo is the beach from the film "From Here to Eternity."
We stopped at another park where we had great views of the snorklers....
...but Barek was more fascinated with the wild chickens and roosters that were running around the park amidst the beautiful trees. That's our guide, Shannon, in-between Charis and Barek in photo above. He had a great sense of humor which the kids really enjoyed.
In the afternoon, the boys took a cab to Kmart to buy some last-minute "necessities" before leaving the states: Uno, socks, Twizzlers and toothpaste. Charis and I took the bus back to Wakiki for some shopping. Charis was able to get in some phone calls on my cell before leaving the states.Back on the ship, we took Asher to our wonderful doctor who unwrapped the bandages. Although it will take a long time for Asher's foot to heal and he needs to stay off of it for a long time to come, the good news is that there is absolutely no infection and that I will not need to do any upper body workouts until Asher becomes mobile!
Asher's teacher back home, Mrs. Jones, did her student teaching in Hawaii and absolutely loves Hawaii. After being here for four days we see why! The islands are beautiful!
We are taking off right now for Japan, a crossing that will take about 10 days. Now that we are back at sea, classes will resume tomorrow for everyone. We all need to switch from tourist-mode back to classroom-mode!
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