Nick was BUSY while I was away!

So...my hallway is almost finished. We are waiting on the floor to be fixed underneath the house, so no baseboards yet. Nick's favorite room in the house is waiting on carpet and baseboards of course...but I think that also has to do with the floor too. And finally the one complete room...our bedroom. Although I am working on some kind of art and probably a small crown molding. But the carpet is in and it all looks great!

I am also trying to convince Nick to let me paint the kitchen so that it matches the hallway...but we'll see what happens!

Ex-owners mull ‘hugging’ lion’s legacy - TODAY: Pets - TODAYshow.com

Ex-owners mull ‘hugging’ lion’s legacy - TODAY: Pets - TODAYshow.com

Okay...so this is the video that has Christian the lion. It's pretty amazing! :)

Ex-owners mull ‘hugging’ lion’s legacy - TODAY: Pets - TODAYshow.com

Ex-owners mull ‘hugging’ lion’s legacy - TODAY: Pets - TODAYshow.com

Galina is here :)

Tired but ready to go home :)
Sleeping in the car...good sign!
Isn't she beautiful!

Galina Hippolyta Baldwin

July 16, 2008

Hanauma Bay Snorkeling

The view from the top. Hanauma Bay is a beautiful place! It is a live reef with lots of amazing fish to see!
It was about a five minute walk down to the beach. There was plenty of room for all of the people and there were a lot of people! Once you got out in the bay though you didn't see anyone.
We didn't get to see any whales because they come in the winter, but all of the other fish and ocean animals were great!

Honolulu Zoo

Here are some of the beautiful animals at the Honolulu Zoo:

The Pali (our first hike)

The lookout at ground level...and way up at the top of the "trail"

So, this has been a while...I was hoping to be really good at this but time seems to go by quickly here! We went to the Pali Lookout and Brian then decided to tell us there was a trail...Mom and I still don't think it was a trail...but we followed him anyways. It was a long, winding, steep, scary climb up, but we finally made it...Mom actually stopped about two thirds of the way up and made me go the rest of the way with Brian. It was a scary at times because you really were looking down about 500 feet off the side of the mountain...straight down to the highway below. So if you survived a fall...you would then be run over by a car :) Here we are...up as far as we can go!

Going back down...finally