11 am and all is well

My computer may say 11:06am, but it is really 6:06am... good job computer. I'm up at the crack of dawn to see the sunrise, a little late I am, but it's pretty. My siblings arrive at 8:10 and we're going to make some fresh leis out of plumeria and feed through some flowers in the Ti leaf leis that we made the other day.
Yesterday afternoon, we stopped by a friend of Joel's family's place. He owns 620 acres about 4 miles out of town just up the mountain, just under a square mile. It is gorgeous. They've owned the property for about 5 years and use it as a place to tool around after work. They dapple in gardening, landscaping, have 12-15 trees of all different sorts of fruits including vivee which I hadn't had before, some on and off-season tangerines, the starts of mangoes, guavas, bananas and avocadoes, and lots of ornamentals, orchids and tropical plants I've never seen before to eventually landscape around the house they hope to have put in and finished by December. They have a little waterfall, and a gorgeous view of the city below. It rises to about 1,000 ft. and is the view you would expect from the airplane as you fly in. I enjoyed our 2 hr. tour of the small bit they he's had a chance to play with!
And now for the list of things we've done, perhaps with a bit of detail to them, perhaps not. May not seem interesting, but I need to write it down somewhere :)

• Snorkeled in Maui and here at Richardsons and saw many blue, yellow, green, purple, white and assortments of those colors in fish as well as pipefish, 3 types of pufferfish, sea cucumbers, sea anemones and large turtles.
• Made some good food here: sushi with tuna, a nice pasta sauce, lovely salads, purple sweet potatoes, mint tea, marinaded teriyaki and sesame chicken, fried rice with chorizo, and Hawaiian style hot dogs.
• Have been seeing Joel's darling nieces each day. They are now 8 mo. and 22 mo. Will post pictures of the cuties.
• Scrabble. Played daily. We're 8-0, I'll let you guess who is undefeated :-D
• Sunburn is getting much better. Still red, hurts less in the sun, 80 % chance it will not peel, woohoo!
• Line Drying Clothes - not so bad, takes an hour or two when the sun is out. Takes a day when there is mist in the air and it is high in humidity out.
• Waterfalls are much nicer when you're not in a drought. Will need to re-visit Rainbow falls now that we had a little rain. Akaka falls and Kahuna falls were nice though. Every tourbus stops there apparently.
• Maui is not that big. You can get to most places there in under an hour. I am not a fan of the mtv show, living Lahina, or whatever it is called.

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