Here are the photos of the leper colony and the sign at the entrance of the lookout. The last pics are of the road (and I use that term loosely) that we took to drive down to the spot that I spoke of in the post before this. We are having such an amazing time. We do not even have a clock set here and just do whatever, whenever. Pa is so relaxed and get this.......actually said that if he thought he could make a living here he might like to live here. I think we owe an awful lot to Toby the owner of this condo as she has made it possible to feel completely at home.......there are books on Hawaii, probable 40 movies (none of which we have watched) and everything a house needs down to safety pins......what a thoughtful owner.
well it is now 4 am and I have to be up at 5 so really should try to sleep
ALOHA

Makenna here is a sign that is almost the same as your name! We sure miss you, and all the rest of you girls (and one lil boy kid_)
I am posting these pics because I love them, the village of the leper colony is as close as we could get as you can only go in there by air or sea or BY MULE which we will be doing later today it is 3 am right now. Can't sleep and neither can pa which means we will be a laugh riot when we ride the mules. The water pics I have no idea where we were, as we went off roading with our poor lil rental car. We followed a rutted, unpaved untravelled road all the way to the ocean. Many wrong turns and back ups but we found this strange place where there were cement tracks leading nowhere and what looked like it must have been lava flow and then the most amazing cove that we did not get down to but would have loved to beach comb as there was all sorts of debris washed up on the rocks. I think ya had to be there..........aloha

The first pic is of the sun coming up on our lanai, the second is a lovely fat horse we met at the sugar plantation, she proves that even animals think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, as she had lots of lovely grass on her side but chose to put her head through the fence nearly choking herself to eat some rather unappetizing looking weeds. Does anyone know how pineapple grow.......we sure didn't. Such tiny plants and each one only has one pineapple.... I now know why they are expensive the strange rock is an ancient birthing bed which we found quite fascinating.
and then there is me, posing at Phallic Rock. I was a tiny bit disappointed as there is much fanfare and really......it was just the tip....aw well
I hope all of you are well.
ttfn

I may have discovered the secret of blogging in Molokai! U have to get up in the middle of the night to do it! About these photos, these were taken yesterday at the western end of the Island. It is much different terrain as if it were a different country, very hilly and lots of fields that have grass growing but nothing else. The dirt is actually bright red, although for some reason it doesn't show that colour in the pics. I think there is one of me photographing something and catching my image in the car mirror.
I am going to try to post today's adventure also.......and tomorrow THE GREAT MULE RIDE if I don't fall off the cliff I will post again when we get back. Aloha

the first two pictures were taken yesterday, i love the pic of the sunset. Today we drove as far east on the island as the road goes. It was quite amazing as the road is ocean on one side and mountain on the other. The views were absolutely breathtaking.
This morning I sat on our lanai, with tiny beads of sweat on my tanned forehead, drank my macadamia coffee and wondered how my dear friend Kathy was doing. Get those stats ready my girl!!
Pa swam naked on a deserted (well after he stripped down it was anyway)beach and I waded fully clothed in amazing surf and found some shells for my Siobhan. I miss you all and wish you were here. Danica and Jacqui you will appreciate the photo of the wave crashing on the rocks I think.....I waited and waited as the delay on my camera is huge but I am delighted with the end result. We called on you Michael, to give a good frowning to a driver that felt we were going too fast on the treacherous road up the island. Perhaps we could get some lessons?
.....food is incredibly expensive here, for dinner tonight, Robin had the local fish and I had stuffed shrimp which sounded good but wasn't. The local fish was 26$ and I think the shrimp was 23$. Methinks we will be cooking at home more.
love you all
ma and pa

ok there is a viewer warning for small children (and lotsa other peoples) but be very careful as you scroll to the end of this post. Nekkid ole men warning....you have been warned..........but for the rest of you! here are some more seeable (may not be a word) pics of our adventure so far......
the reason for the nekkid pic is that pa brought two sandals.........not from the same pair and for some reason felt the urge to pose nude with them! and me being the ever obliging woman that I am.........well you can see the rest.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm someone is lookin good for Xmas!!!

two beautiful little girls were here for a visit last week and now my orchid is blooming!! Have to love that ionic water fogger (or whatever it is actually called) now I am waiting for the one Rob and Jacqui gave me to bloom.
two more sleeps then HAWAII HERE WE COME!! (poor poor mules)

When Martha heard we were having chicken for dinner she thought she was invited!!!

here is the birthday girl having some fun at her party. We all had fun Siobhan.
Thanks for having us!

here are some shots of all the kids both big and little having fun at Siobhan's birthday !