Almost to Hawaii

We have been relaxing the last four days on the ship at sea on the way to Hawaii. Yesterday we celebrated our 30^th wedding anniversary in the formal dining room. There is a lot of activities on board. We took dancing lessons (not to successful) and took in a lot of lectures and entertainment. Last night we saw a comedian juggler. There are a lot of nooks and crannies to sit and read while looking at the ocean.

Tomorrow we arrive at 8am in Hawaii at Hilo. We will be busy taking tours for the next four days.

The captain just announced we are traveling at 23 mph. That’s why it takes four days to get to Hawaii.

Hawaii

We just left the cruise port of San Diego! We'll be in Hawaii in 4 days.

Front Yard Progress

Today we finished another stage of our curb appeal project. All the palm trees are planted with tree sprinklers for each tree. The next stage is to put the path in. Our goal is to have a winding path going through the trees with some kind of ground cover. We might use concrete pavers (which are installed on a bed of tamped sand) or just colored gravel or bark. Eventually we want to remove the existing concrete path going up to the front door and make the path all the same material whether it be pavers, gravel or bark.

Michael W. Smith - Agnus Dei

I like Michael W. Smith's music which Steve and Sudi introduced me to. One of my favorites is "Agnus Dei". This video is a long version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPBmFwBSGb0

Cindy's Birthday

For Cindy's birthday we went to a wonderful vegetarian/vegan restaurant located in Normal Heights. Their most popular item is "neatloaf". It comes in vegetarian or vegan style. Cindy and I had the vegan version. It is served with soup or salad and mashed potatoes with mushroom gravey. Dan had an avocado sandwich loaded with goodies and a little cheese. We all thought everything was excellent. For dessert Cindy and Dan shared a decandent vegan chocolate mousee cake and I had a delicious apple pie.

Our own RV dump station

We now have our own personal motor home dump station. Finished all the plumbing today and all that's left is to fill in the giant hole. We had to dig 6 feet to find the sewer pipe. We were about ready to call the plumber when when we got to 5 1/2 feet with no results. There wasn't much room in the hole to maneuver around so Cindy got in and dug around with a little hand shovel for a short while and hollered "I found it!" It was a little farther to the right than we thought it would be.

Front yard progress

The next step of our curb appeal project is to install a dump drain to dump our motorhome holding tanks. We thought we would do it while we have the front yard dug up. It's a good convenience. Today we started digging and got to 5 feet. After running into a big rock (boulder) we dug about a foot away from it; so far no sewer pipe to connect to. We learned from the plumber who will probably install it that each house has letter "p" stamped on the curb which indicates the location of the sewer pipe. We will continue tomorrow. Are we having fun yet?