Beach Days

So life is same old same old. I hate to say it, but we’re really enjoying life on Molokai. It’s amazing how few responsibilities we have, and it gives us lots of time to hang out. So here’s how we hung this week.

Eric bought a machete. What is it about guys that a big knife brings out the cave man in them? He bought it because “it’ll be good to cut coconuts with, then we won’t have to buy coconut”. Stef can you sympathize?! Our husbands and their way of talking us into ridiculous purchases! Anyway once we got home he proceeded to hunker around swinging the thing at anything in sight. He did manage to climb a coconut tree (after he got out his old track spikes for extra traction) and after several SEVERAL minutes cracked open the coconut. This was about a week ago, and it still sits in our fridge. But man, I love him!

I’ve been loving having time to try out new recipes. I’m attempting to put together a cookbook of favorite recipes, so now I make Eric help me take pictures of all our food. He loves waiting 10 extra minutes for suppertime while we get the perfect shot. Actually, he gets pretty excited about our new weekly recipes and is always asking when I’m making the next.

We keep finding beaches we haven’t been to yet, and are loving the new explorations. This weekend we decided to hike from one beach to another about 2 mi. away that could only be gotten to with a 4 wheel drive vehicle. The path only lasted about ¼ a mi. and then we discovered it was hiking rocks the rest of the way. So we decided to stay put and enjoy where we were. Eric brought along his rock climbing shoes and found a cliff to scale. My job was to instruct him on which hold to go for next and take pictures. Apparently I didn’t do that great of a job, because for some reason we came back with just 3 pictures. But don’t worry, I’m sure we’ll be back! We packed a lunch (in our fabulous picnic backpack via S&S Beer) and while we lunched in “our” little rock cove a few feet from the water we saw a hug pod of dolphins in the ocean. This was our first, and appeared to be a large group: 15-20 of them jumping out of the water as they swam. We first spotted them far out and could only see their fins, but they came closer and closer to the beach. So cool… Mom get excited!

Today we ventured in town to take advantage of the community center. It’s actually pretty cool the things they have to do. Free swimming pool, tennis courts, baseball fields, bball (@ the school) and the skate park. Eric brought the longboard, and sadly it was the wrong choice. A little too long, it got stuck on the hills and my man bottomed out numerous times. But fun was had, and I’m excited to see him vroom around on the regular boards. Wes, Marcus, Shane, Lish, and Lauren we’re so taking you here when you come! Shane, maybe for your protection you can watch the baby while the others board, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.

Welp, that’s all she wrote.

Peace
E&M

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