Basketball Team Photo

Here's Silas's basketball team photo. His final game is on Saturday, 3/27. I don't know if they actually keep track at his age, but if they do his team should be in the top 3. Regardless, he'll be getting a trophy, and he's had lots of fun learning a LOT about basketball.

Swamp Romp

Chris participated in the 16th Annual Swamp Romp at the Marine Corps Base in Kaneohe. There were over 400 teams of 6 that participated. The "race" included running through lots of swamp as well as obstacle courses. Here's his team before the race.

This is what part of the course looked like.
This is what they looked like after the race. Chris is the one in the middle that's covered with so much mud you can't recognize him. He did a cannon ball in the mud puddle at the end of the course - just for fun! He's still finding mud in his eyes and ears!

Maunawili Falls

For President's Day we took a hike up to Maunawili Falls. The trail was very muddy.

The Falls were very small. But we had fun and the surroundings were beautiful.
Keilah held on tight to her reins.

Diamond Head Crater

We visited Diamond Head Crater, and I was astonished at just how huge it is. They have a tunnel through which we could drive to the center of the crater. Then we took a LONG hike up a steep side to the highest point of the crater. The view was spectacular. As you can see from the high rises behind me, we were pretty high up. The kids were troopers, and we had a great time.

Shark Encounter

For Chris's birthday he got to go swim with the sharks off the north shore of Oahu. Since he had this week off he took his birthday present a little early. The under water camera wasn't great, but he had a FABULOUS time and got to see plenty of sharks swim by.

Polynesian Cultural Center

We went to the Polynesian Cultural Center today. We started off by seeing canoes representing each Polynesian island float by with dancers on them. The pictures below show the kids eating the quava ice cream we bought during this show. Then I forgot I had the camera and didn't take any more pictures. :( After that we enjoyed Tongan drummers & shuffleboard, fishing in Tahiti, Bamboo instruments from Fiji, Hawaiian bowling (Keilah and I did a hula lesson while the boys bowled), and making fire with sticks in Samoa. We didn't stay for their new night show "HA - Breath of Life" because the kids were exhausted.

First Basketball Game

Silas's team (The Lakers) have been practicing hard for a month, and this Saturday was their first game. Silas was very good at defense. That's him in the yellow standing in front of the boy with the ball.

Silas is very good at running and knows all the positions very well. His coach (the large man by Silas) is a very good teacher and Silas is learning a lot.