hard core playing October 14, 2007

meg’s trip to hawaii
day six:

today we played extra hard and
probably burned twice as many
calories as we ate…although we did
eat well today and had ice cream.

our day began at 7:00am!!

yikes!

we headed over to kailua for

   k a y a k i n g

meg
julie
lisa
jared (sorry…jared! i’ve been spelling your
name wrong)
mike
james
(the same crew from day one in kailua)

jared and i were in the same kayak.
julie and james were together and
meg and mike were together…for some
reason the two freckled people got placed
in the same kayak. 

we headed out to an island right off the
coast where we started.  it’s flat, so you
can’t see what’s on it from the opposite
shore.  it’s a bird sanctuary, covered in
green grass-like growth and……birds.

                 
“ouch!  eeeee!  ouch! oooo!” “why didn’t we wear slippers to walk
around this ‘flat island’!!?”

then we went out to an island far from
where we started.  we had to paddle through
coral and beautiful, teal, bright blue waters!!
it was hard to believe that i was really there
in that water seeing what i was seeing.

we finally arrived at our destination and
pulled our kayaks up on the shore. 

   

we put on our slippers and went on a hike
around the back side of the island.  it was
incredible.  lava rocks and crashing waves
and blue sky surrounded us.  it was
challenging to scale these rocks in only our
flip flops and wet ones at that!!  but we made
it to the back side… and were rewarded for
our efforts.

the island we were on created a canal with
the rocks nearby.  the tide swiftly rose up and
down filling the space between the rocks.  the
waves crashed and created pools on the side
of the rock we were on.  in these pools fish
on other things grew and lived.

   

so, here comes the best part….

there was a rock we climbed and
j
u
m
p
e
d

off of into the water.  we had to
wait and time it just right with the
tide and jump in just the right place
…as not to dash ourselves into the
rocks!!  (my mom would have killed
me if she were there…meg and julie’s
moms too!)

       
meghan, julie, and lisa jumping off the rock.
aaaahhhhhh!!!  splash!!  “i wanna do it again!”

don’t mind the girl sticking her head out behind lisa…she was a
cute redhead, but not with us… we talked…no pressured her into
jumping.

the view was out-of-this-world!!!

we hiked back around and got back
in our kayaks.  we got back to our
starting place just in time. 

the warriors have returned to camp victorious!!

mike took us to a fav place of his for
lunch.  on the way home we had a
candy fest.  it’s been a while since we
chowed down on twix, reeces pieces,
and chocolate caramels. we had tummy
aches by the time we got back home.
..but when we got home…

we were w i p p e d ! !

so after a short nap we got up, changed
and headed out the door for some

u l t i m a t e   f r i s b e e

we played hard for three games
and almost two hours.  meg’s team
won all three games…me and julie’s
team…….did not.  but we still played
hard and had more fun than should
be allowed in one day!!  meg did so so
great!  after proving herself to one particular
boy on the team the frisbee was thrown
to her often.  julie and i fought hard to the
end!!  i made some sweet catches and julie
moved the frisbee down the field very
well.

      
this is lisa dishing out some serious defense on meghan!! 
or is she dancing??!!

post-game was a picnic with julie’s church.
yummy food and lots of nice people to
talk and eat with.  after eating meghan
played volleyball into the night. 

then…no, it’s still not over…

we took meghan and mike to experience
their first mochi ice cream.  they liked
it.  meg’s fav was guava.  my fav was, of
course, pumpkin!! 

now we are blogging upstairs and
bringing home the day with catching
up on the days football, courtesy of
julie k repass and espn, and bring it on.
you know the cheerleader movie?!  i
sort of can quote half of it by heart.  a
sad confession.

it was a long long long

fun fun fun

day in hawaii.