It is Raining Like Crazy

Today the grounds at Temple Square are glorious!  God and the TSP grounds crew have outdone themselves.

It's cold, though. 

Remember these days?

Every day is paradise with Spencer by my side.  (But I hope we can go back to Hawaii sometime soon!)

Laie Overlook (my weak attempt at a play on words)

When the days are slow and long, do you ever find yourself asking, "Why am I not in Hawaii?"?

Me too.

Glimpses by Aundrea

My eyes are closed for two reasons:  1) I'm too lame to have a picture taken without blinking; 2) there is not enough oxygen in the air yet, so I'm asleep.  This is at the SLC airport, where we nearly missed our flight due to the length of the security checkpoint line.  I've seriously never seen anything like it.

Todd and Sami at Pearl Harbor--I love this picture (even if Sami won't love it)!

Spencer is a good sport to do the goofy stuff with me.  We are at the Dole Plantation.

This is the back yard view of the house where we stayed.  *sigh*  I could SO get used to a view like this!

Nothing says "Class" like flags along the road!  The food was really good.  And I apologize to everyone in Hawaii who DIDN'T have the garlic shrimp that day.  They were pretty serious about the garlic.  :)

Going into dinner at the Polynesian Cultural Center.

The lookout from atop Diamond Head.  (Are my eyes open?  You decide.)

Proof that we visited a tropical rain forest.  Incredible!

Banyon tree.  It's really beautiful.  (It was also the closet for some homeless person(s), containing a cooler, a bedroll, and others "stuff")

One of the funny things when we travel is that I want all the pictures to have people in them.  Spencer likes "the view."  He got some lovely photos, but this is MY blog, dang it!

Random Stuff

I had planned to write a blog which had the word "doctor" in every sentence. I still could. Except you gotta read today's edition of my friend's blog, "Two Scoops." That will top any day! And the funniest part is that my mom knew before I did, because she read the blog first! Amy laughed and said, "I LOVE your mom!" I replied, "What DON'T you love?"

For any who would like to join us, Amy and I are celebrating on Monday by having a Hawaiian Day! I'm wearing a hot pink lava-lava (which will look wonderful with my jacket from Alaska that I wear constantly so I can stay warm), and she's wearing a flower in her hair. We will eat chocolate chip cookies (they have chocolate chip cookies in Hawaii, don't they?). We will hug and maybe dance the hula. OK, maybe not the hula part. I'm going to download...Never mind. :)

You should come. I'll see you there!