Beach, palms, turtles + malasadas
4th of July week this week, really nice to get some time off!
Some highlights:
Jeff and I spend time everyday in the backyard under the palms…with kids typically running around the yard…
Been spending some individual time with the kids, Luke and I walking this week and Zo and I reading while Luke is in Jui Jitsu…
Our social life these days is at the beach…we’re starting a Tuesday afternoon beach day with a few friends, last week we went to Black Rock which is usually mobbed with tourists so we figured it’d be good to get some time in before things shift back to being a bit more open starting August…
Been yoga-ing under the palms in the back yard a couple times a week, and my garden is growing pretty well…
For 4th of July we pitched a tent for the kids in the backyard for the whole long weekend. They love it, have been spending all their time in there. We’ve been playing rolling log and I’ve been reading to them in the tent…Trixie Belden from my childhood is a hit. Books I loved as a kid are hit or miss around here, some they love, some they say are “old school” and they’re not interested…
Yesterday was the 4th and we started the day driving over to Wailuku—beautiful drive as always—and getting malasadas which are a local thing, kind of like donuts, we got them hot out of the fryer and then went to our “we usually see turtles there” beach to eat malasadas and watch the turtles…this would be the start of a fun tradition except we can’t do it anywhere but here…but as my friend Jerica said maybe future 4th of Julys it’s donuts and some sort of turtle like a mural or something, the hunt to do something similar in the future could be fun. We also got a bunch of fireworks for the driveway and had dinner (tacos from the taco truck) and surfed with friends at the beach and the kids swam and the kids’ friends across the street came over for the fireworks after…it was a really fun 4th…
Happy Sunday!
XO
