Maui — March 2005

Enjoying the Sun

With such good weather, we find lots of things to do outdoors.

We're staying right on Ka'anapali Beach

Anya making a birthday cake with a "candle"

Every time we come to Hawaii now, Angela makes a pilgrimage to a store chain called Cinnamon Girl that specializes in matching mother/daughter sun dresses.

Angela is still

Our most brilliant vacation tactic this time was making arrangements ahead of time with a nanny service to have a babysitter come each afternoon while we there. This gave us plenty of time for activities that we could do without the kids, like scuba diving.

Jan and Angela went scuba diving at Olowalu Beach south of Lahaina. Despite the alarming nature of the sign, the area doesn't have more sharks than other areas of Hawaii, and in any event we weren't lucky enough to see a shark on our dives.

We only got in two dives, but they were fun! Lots of green sea turtles.

Anya wants to go diving too someday

When Anya learned we were going to go to Hawaii, she suggested that we go hunting for a letterbox there. A letterbox is a small plastic box hidden in some public location like a park or forest that contains a stamp and a log book. To find a letterbox, you follow a simple series of clues obtained off the web from a site like Letterboxing North America. Jan and Anya have gone on a few letterboxing adventures in the Seattle area, but Anya had the inspired suggestion to look for one in Hawaii.

We went off in search of one in an area a little north of Ka'anapali, and after a bit of puzzling over the clues, found what we were looking for.

Anya holds the letterbox we found hidden under a volcanic rock

The stamp we found in the letterbox. We took an imprint of this stamp, and left our own mark in the box's log book.

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