camera phones

We got our first camera phone this year. We actually think it takes fairly good pictures. Unfortunately we're not so good at downloading them in a timely manner. Here are some shots of visitors this spring, that we didn't post earlier.

Isaac at one of my favorite restaurant on Maui, Pizza in Paradise. Unfortunately you can't go there hungry because it takes over an hour to get your food. Maybe that is why the food tastes so good. You're soooo hungry by the time it comes that it tastes that good. And Isaac and Raph and another favorite Maui spot, Cliffhouse. We tried to go there on our most recent trip and it was totally shut down because they were tearing down a hotel. I was bummed.




in the bosom of Kiluea Iki crate, my cousin Julie, her friend Rachel, and my aunt Jean. Good hike.



This is what happens when you go to the beach on our side of the island. Weather comes. In any case, I love the way they have planted thousands of palm trees here to try to create a nice beach, since the last one was destroyed by lava.



Here is Dan chewing on sugar cane and Cara on a hike. Soon everybody but me was gnawing on the cane and Cara tried to take some home with her.

Raph and the Volcano

Raph took our teacher/mentor/friend Terry out to the lava on Friday night. As a nice surprise they didn't have to go very far to see it - exactly one mile from the car. So they had plenty of daylight to take pictures. Pretty cool. This is all surface lava, and this particular kind of lava, pahoehoe, is smooth and runny as you can see. They had a lot of fun lighting sticks on fire and throwing things into the fire to watch them burn. Boys.