This is the day we moved over to Oahu for awhile. We packed up all of our stuff, said goodbye to Dallas’s parents, and headed to the airport. On Oahu we got our rental car and headed to our friends Billy and Ging Ging’s house in Waimanalo. But they weren’t there! We beat them from the airport. .. they were just coming in from Taiwan! So, we let ourselves in and when they got home we all ate dinner that Billy’s mom had made earlier in the day and put in the fridge.
Billy and Ging live just down the street from the beach and it is so beautiful. I’d never been to Waimanalo before and was taken with all the gorgeous pali (cliffs) and the wooded beaches (they’re ironwood trees). I’d never even visited this Eastern side of the island before, so it was interesting to see.
Billy grew up in Waimanalo and moved the family back home about a year ago. Their boys Damien and Hoku took to Makai immediately. They mostly called him “baby” or “baby Kai Kai”. It’s totally normal to wear a santa hat for two days in June in Hawaii, right? Damien and Hoku kept putting it back on Makai’s head whenever it fell off! (Not that it even fit on his head to begin with!) The boys played and played, past their bedtime, and then finally it was time to rest!