Driving around the Island!

Hi Bella and Ethan... Mimi & Grandma too! Here are some more pics for our vacation. Mommy and Daddy miss you and we will see you soon. We love you!

 

Our Caving Adventure!!!!

 This was Harry our tour guide... And his name fit him quite perfectly... and not that he had lots of hair... He was a very peculiar man. Lives with his aging parents in a remote lot on the Hilo side. He bought the property in 1980, but didn't know that he had a cave/lava tube entrance on the property until 1996. Since then he has taken 3000 people through a portion of the worlds longest cave/lava tube. 

He was (to say it nicely) a little sketchy. But he was very knowledgeable about the cave and it was neat exploring the cave and seeing where lava had traveled creating this beautiful structure. 

Wheh we first entered the cave, Harry locked his homemade iron gate with a key he put in his upper pocket... At that point, I was thinking to myself... are we going to get out of here alive? Thinking maybe he was a little more crazy then originally thought. And then at the turnaround point, he asked us if we wanted to see totally darkness (meaning to turn off the flashlights)... I was thinking, this is it, he's going to kill us! LOL!

(I guess I've been watching too many murder mystery shows). Ben on the other hand kept thinking to himself... I just hope Harry doesn't loose that key! Funny how different minds think... so differently!

 These are the makeshift ladders we used to climb up and down the cave.

 Outfitted in our caving gear!

 Standing on the edge of the USA... In South Point, HI!

Me driving the jeep... It was fun!

 A sink hole people jump into... If I wasn't pregnant (or had kids... because that would be irresponsible:) I would have jumped in! You have to time to jump perfectly with the waves. You jump into high tide and then the current spits you out into the ocean on the other side. Definitely something I would have done in my younger years... 

 Dinner last night at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse... yummy!