March has been a kind of hectic week. We have been spending quite a bit of time with our friend Amy and her daughter Avery. We started off the month by going to the Honolulu Zoo, which Adam and I have never been to before. It was nothing like the San Diego Zoo, but it was decent. It was fun to go with a couple of our friends' kids who got excited about everything.
Amy's daughter, Avery, turned 3 on March 25th, so we had a birthday party for her. She wanted a princess party, so I suggested we make a castle out of cardboard boxes. I was thinking 1 or 2 refrigerator boxes, something small. This is what it turned out to be.
It was A LOT of work, especially since a lot of the time it was just Amy and I working on it, but it was way fun. We ended up not being able to do everything we planned with it, but the kids loved it anyway.
Adam is taking a Conservation Biology class in which they do quite a few field trips. They have worked a few times with different branches of the military to clean out invasive species of plants on various sites in Hawaii. On one trip, which ended up being only Adam, 2 girls from the class, and their professor, they camped overnight on the ridge of a nearby mountain range, and the Army helicoptered their stuff up and down the mountain.
Then, a week or two later, they went to Kaua'i to work with the Navy on removing invasive species there. I wanted to go, but there wouldn't have been room for me in the vehicles they rented. So, Adam had a day of fun and a day of work without me. They explored caves, went hiking, jumped off waterfalls and ropes into a pool of water, and a few of Adam's classmates almost drown because they didn't listen to their professor about not swimming in a dangerous area. Fortunately, Adam wasn't one of them.
Since I missed out and Adam didn't get to do as much as he would have liked, we are going as part of his graduation trip during Spring Break next week. There will definitely be pictures of that and of Adam's graduation (April 10th) in next month's blog.
The last thing that happened this month is that Adam decided that he is for sure going to be done with school in the beginning of June. We are still trying to figure out our plans for sure, but he is still planning on joining the Air Force, and we will be talking to a recruiter in about a week when we return from Kaua'i.
3 comments:
Sounds like you guys are having fun! It was fun talking to you on Skype the other day Adam! We should do it again soon (with Jenni too this time!) because we have it on our computer too. That's so exciting that Adam is graduating and going into the Air Force. My dad was in the air force and said it was really cool. He loved it! Anyway, love you guys! Have fun doing your trip during spring break!
hey! what a fun, busy life! alfredo and i miss you guys! that castle you made for avery's birthday was so awesome! good job!
Hey tonz of cools stuff in this post. That is way cool that you built that castle for her birthday. It looks great. I am currently making a bed out of wood into a castle daybed and baby carter due in August I am making a castle crib. Their themes are Prince Aden's Castle by the sea and Prince Carter's Castle by the sea. We even have a hammock swing hanging from the ceiling in Aden's for the rocking chair. Let me know if you have any tips on building castles!
Our bedroom is "Our piece of Paradise" and you live in paradise ;)
Love Heidi
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