TUESDAY

Aloha! Jackie and I have enjoyed another wonderful day in paradise. We started our morning with a nice breakfast of scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, toast and of course coffee. After we ate and washed the dishes we sat on the lanai for awhile trying to decide what we wanted to do today. Our first choice was to head to Anini to snorkel but mother nature had other plans as it started to rain. It was our normal pattern of 15 minutes of rain, then 30 minutes of sun repeated thru out the morning so we decided to wait on the snorkeling for a little while. Anyway Jackie said she had a few things here at home to catch up on so she washed a load or two of clothes and cleaned and vacuumed our apartment. Cory came down and I talked story with him until he had to go to work at noon. After our lunch we decided that we would take a chance and go to Anini after all. It's not that far from our house and if we get rained on, so what! Well the sky did look threatening a few times but we managed to get thru the snorkel without getting rained on once and the water was real nice...a little wind chop but great visablity. I think the overcast skies makes the video look clearer. We got some more clips of Mr. Honu out by turtle rock and some nice clips of a snowflake eel. We stayed out for about 2 hours only coming in when Jackie got cold. After we dried ourselves off we headed home as I wanted to catch as much of the Poinsettia Bowl as I could. The Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore grew up one house down from us when we lived in Prosser. His dad is the football coach at Prosser High School. We got back in time for me to watch most of the second half. It was a very good game with Boise State leading almost the entire game but losing to TCU by one point. It's kind of ironic that PHS lost its state championship game in double overtime by one point also. But for a couple of points both of Coach Moore's sons could have enjoyed undefeated seasons...a topic that will more than likely come up a few times around their table this Christmas!