It has been a great winter with temps hovering around 80 degrees. It did bring a few storms (11 inches of rain in 12 hours, 60 miles an hour wind storm and a tsunami warning) All of which we survived but damage was done around many of the islands. Michelle came for a birthday visit and well as Lana. Suzy and her family are due next month!!!
Ive been playing lots of tennis and have to take a break now and then due to injuries from over playing. Ive also joined a bunco group that plays the dice game once a month. Meeting new friends is exhausting! Ive attached a few pics of a few lunches and a hike. Im still geocaching and looking into buying a new GPS unit. Hiking here is very muddy but the sites are most unusual. The first picture below is a hike to the very west end of Oahu. Its an wildlife protected area of the albatross (which were protecting their chicks) Many Albatrosses were killed on Midway Island recently during the tsunami due to the fact they will not leave their young.
The grand kids are all doing great. Next year Abby is going to be able to attend the school that Owen goes to and where Suzy is the librarian! That will last two years until Abby goes to 6th grade. For the first time the three of them will be in the same school! Mason is beginning preschool on Monday and Alex is almost 11 months.
I probably will not be in Vegas until July and that will only be for a short visit. We will leave with Michelle and her family to our most favorite mountain spot of Hailey (Sun Valley) Idaho. We will be there for 10 days, then I will fly back to the islands via Seattle where I will visit my cousin. Of course, parents health may change plans. Forrrest's dad who always had a steel trap for a mind is now in a nursing home. We might have to go see him. My mom is hanging in there.
We are starting a new business tied in with timeshare resells. Forrest ran into an old colleague that is helping him until he feels he can do everything on his own. So far so good. We are now trying to create a pipeline of referrals. His goal is to either go part-time with Marriott (preferred) or quit. He basically buys banked timeshare weeks and pays that person cash, then resells them. Im just keeping my fingers crossed because the local timeshare business is terrible. Everyone is quitting since the deals are very flat. As everything in the "commission world" it is up and down. So we are looking else where and this business should work for a long time and a good retirement investment income. I definitely dont want to go back to work!
Hope to hear from you soon. If you can try to make a vacation to Hawaii! I can show you a very different Hawaii! No expensive excursions here!
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