February & March

We have been pretty busy the past several weeks. February started off with me finishing the guest bedroom for our upcoming guests.

Then we celebrated Valentine's Day with a home-made cupcakes, roses and a nice dinner out in town. Our family (Marisol and Big Gil) came for a visit for two weeks in February. Marisol arrived first (Big Gil came second and it was a surprise! A very good surprise) and we went to a Kaneohe Spouses event. It took place at the Generals home. It was a very nice event with amazing southern food.

While they were visiting we headed up North to the Dole Plantation. We took a train ride tour of the Plantation.

I managed to get one decent shot of a pineapple while on the train. Truthfully there isn't much to see; mostly field upon field of pineapple bushes.

After our tour of the Dole Plantation and a stop off at the North Shore and Turtle Beach we had another pit stop on the way home at the Macadamia Nut Farm. Very small but so much to look at. We tried all sorts of macadamia nuts and managed to find quit a few things to buy. Below is a picture of Marisol and Big Gil outside the farm with the mountains in the background. One day the guys went golfing and the girls tagged along as photographers. Our base has one of the best courses on the island so both Marisol and I wanted to check it out. It makes me want to pick up golfing...which might happen in the near future.This is a view from hole 13. This is what the golf course is known for. Another weekend we went to the Polynesian Culture Center and learned about all the different Polynesian islands. We got there late and were only able to spend about 1.5 hours there but it was still fun. I can't wait to go back and spend more time there. We took a canoe ride so we were able to see more, then stopped off at one of the villages and saw them climb a coconut tree, make coconut milk as well as many other cultural traditions. We ended the Desroches' trip with a Luau. Lastly here is an updated picture of Kai. She is growing so fast! She is almost 4 months old and about 35 pounds. Gil left last week for California. He is there for a little over 5 weeks. This is there last training before deployment. He seems to be having a lot of fun training with his Marines. Both Kai and I miss him a lot and can't wait till he comes home!