From water slides to water falls...we are officially baked to medium-well. We spent hours this morning in the pool and everyone, I mean everyone, took their turn on the water slide. We were all impressed when Grampy climbed the stairs and saddled up. We waited for the big splash. And waited. Finally he putted down, trying to gain some speed with his hands. Evidently there's another variable to the "mass * velocity = momentum" equation that needs to factor in width relative to a narrow tube.

Cindy and Kenzie
Grammy

Grammy and Grampy
Grammy, Grampy, Kenzie, Mason, Julie, Devan, Emily, Carol
Kenzie, Devan, Emily
Kenzie, Julie, Carol, Emily, Devan
Grampy and Emily
Carol and Emily
Grampy, Kenzie and Mason
Kenzie
Lisa and Emily


Mason
Emily, Kenzie and Devan

Then we went to see a couple of "real" waterfalls, including the beautiful Wailua Falls. By this time the kids were completely spent and Mason was just flopped on my shoulder. He never did give in to take a nap, so he's quite loopy at this 7:00 hour, which is 10:00 to his clock. We're waiting for dinner to cook and the kids are throwing an old coconut that we found underneath a tree. (The joke is that last time we came to Kauai I shook a tree, made a coconut fall, and then spent a frustrating amount of time trying to crack the sucker open. All the while Carol was video-taping me, much of which was unbeknown to me. Let's just say that there are possibly dents in the tile floor of the last place we stayed.)

Finally, Grammy, Cindy, the kids and I stopped by Lydgate Park on a whim. What a great park for the kids with an amazing beach! Since I've already exceeded my own standards for number of pictures per post, here are a few more:






So, sand and water. Mix them together and you get a boy who needs to change his clothes. Then he sits down in the sand and you get a boy who needs to be rinsed.