oContinuing to answer DeEtta’s question here. Last winter we had talked about going on a cruise with the “L” family, but our families wanted to cruise to different areas so it didn’t work out. Last summer, they started making plans to vacation in Kauai this winter and we tentatively made …

DeEtta recognized a few extended family members in some of the pictures and she asked who all came on vacation with us. The short list of who is here with us is my parents, my brother, and the “L” family – homeschooling friends of ours from home. Grma & Grpa …

My brother Troy decided to have a beach yoga class! This was the day we had the beach all to ourselves! Amanda said the move above is MUCH harder than it looks! Above is the downward dog which Amanda is doing below, but he had already moved on to the …

Josh is also enjoying his time at the various beaches. At one beach, he decided to be the one covered in sand. So, everyone set to work covering him up to his head. I had to stop Nathan from covering up his head though. He started to put sand all …

I have no idea what the purpose of this game is, but I know it has something to do with locking hands and trying to not be touched. Here are pictures from the kids and Tim playing Star Wars. Again, without anyone else on the beach we were taking advantage …

I’m not sure the locals will believe us if we tell them we saw a shark on shore. We did though! The Tater Shark that follows us around all the time probably thought he was a monk seal today because he decided to come ashore and sun himself for awhile. …

We’ve been going to a different beach (or beaches) every day so we can see as many as possible while we’re here. One day we ended up on a really nice secluded and fairly unoccupied beach called Hanama’ulu Beach Park. Since there weren’t any people around at all other than …

Emily decided she wanted to be a mermaid today so everyone set to work covering her up and giving her sand fins! Tim’s working to get it just right! I suppose all of our ancient greek studies this year have given Em the notion that mermaids have a pretty nice …

If you ever find yourself looking for a dive instructor in Kauai, do NOT use Scuba Steve. I can’t quite put my finger on why I didn’t like him, but I didn’t. I’ll spare you all the details, but suffice it to say we were way over charged, he doesn’t …

Josh tried scuba for the first time on this trip. I think he would have enjoyed it more if he had tried it in the pool first. He was able to give it a try for a little bit while doing an Adventure Scuba program. Here he is getting suited …