A busy April

April has been a fun month. First we had our good friend Chris Henderson and his son Colin come over for a quick visit. Chris and I went diving and Cory and Colin were snorkeling above us. Cory would have been diving with us but one of the regulators that we rented was broken so we only had two sets of gear. Turned out to be a lot of fun anyway. We saw a lot of interesting critters and swam with a turtle. Fun, fun.

Chris and Colin also experienced a little boogie boarding and Colin learned to surf from our friend Joe Wilson.

With Cory getting ready to return to school in Idaho, we were making a few quick trips to see things he hadn't seen. One of those was to Turtle Beach to see the turtles. There were three of them laying on the sand sunbathing and some playing in the water. When the turtles come ashore, the area is roped off so people don't go up and bother them. We watched the ones in the water play for a bit and enjoyed reading about the turtles. They track each one of them by name. The lady told us these two had been up quite regularly - sorry, I can't remember their names.



Linda is not one of the turtles - they are behind her on the sand. There is a third one behind the rock.

They just sat there and occasionally spun around on the sand.

 You can see a couple more turtles in these pictures, playing in the water.

This picture is of Cory's last day when the office he worked with had a luncheon and gave him a orchid lei. We took him to the airport on the 11th and he flew back to Idaho to finish his school. This is his last semester.

Cory and Linda did a couple of last adventures before he left.  One was to hike Koko Head Crater.  Straight up the slope of an old volcano.  No pictures. We have to get Linda to take the camera more often.



To round out the month, we had our stake conference. Elder Whiting from the 1st Quorum of the Seventy was the visiting general authority and they had a Primary Choir that sang at the session on Sunday. Brandon got to sing in the choir.

 And just to top off a busy month, Brandon and his friends were playing and running outside and Brandon tripped. He fell on his arm and so we took him to the doctor. They x-ray'd it and the doctor had us use some ice to get the swelling down. Today they called us to tell us it is fractured and tomorrow he gets to go get it put in a cast. That will make it a bit hard for him to play his violin in the talent show Wednesday at the school!!!  We'll see what happens. Watch for pictures of the cast in our next posting!