Never thought we'd be celebrating Independence Day in Hawaii, but here we are. So, how does someone in Hawai'i mark the holiday? I'll give you three guesses, and the first two don't count. By going to the beach, of course!
Steve & Josh started the day by trying to tour a coffee place. Since it was the 4th, the coffee place was closed (so everyone could go to the beach, of course!), so they ended up stopping to drink coffee and then bringing home doughnuts for all of us. Yum!
Josh & Caroline prepped to go home, while we decided to visit a beach that Steve & I remembered from our visit here in 2001 (so we thought). Makalawena is a secluded beach that's only accessible by a rough 4WD road or by walking about a mile from another beach area. After bumping down that road, we were there. But, it turned out this wasn't the beach we had been to before (unless it had changed quite a bit since then -- possible, I guess). It was still an awesome beach, with only about 30 people on it, pretty amazing considering the day.
We saw three sea turtles, quite close up, while the boys were playing in a tidal pool area at one edge of the beach. We also could see schools of tiny fish swimming, and a few larger fish the boys recognized from their snorkeling time. (And I got to see them too, since the water was so clear.)
After we left the beach and bumped our way back up the road, we headed home to grill burgers and wait for my mom's plane to arrive and the fireworks to start. Evelyn (my mom) got here about 7:30, and fireworks started at 8. We were lucky enough to be able to see them from the yard of our house. I'd never seen fireworks from above before, so this was kind of cool. (Way too short, though, only about 15 minutes long.)
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