Diving!

The Stokes Folks had plans to go diving at noon, so the morning was spent relaxing and hanging around the hotel with Gway & Pa with no real agenda.

There's nothing wrong with Pa's eyesight. He spotted this sub from our balconies this morning.

Where's Waldo? Can you spot the palm tree trimmer guy?

This fellow is trimming palm trees - as seen from our balcony. It was amazing to watch him shimmy up & down the trees. He did have some sort of rope support system that we could not figure out from our vantage point.

Then The Stokes Folks went diving in Paradise. This here is B (my sister...my favorite sister that is!), aka: the Master of Everything Diving & our official Dive Instructor Extraordinaire! Thank you, B, for all the time, patience, effort, money, equipment, and everything else you've invested to certify and pamper and keep safe the Stokes Folks. (And I never even wanted to dive!) You're the best!

B&B standing at left. Sitting is our great friend Patty with Garet, & Karlee. Tammy is our Captain.

On the boat heading to the dive spot.

Garet getting ready for his FIRST ocean dive! And he did AWESOME! (Sorry, for some reason I can't get the video to download...)

Jeff...Awww...isn't he cute!

Karlee & Brad

B&B. Can't dive without 'em! Or more like WON'T dive without 'em! And thank you, Brad, for the APEX, even though I didn't get to use it. Mind you, that was my first dive without it!

The view of Honolulu from the dive spot. You can kinda see the surfers waiting for a wave.

Surfers catching a wave - as seen from the dive boat as we were headed back to shore.

That night the Stokes Folks, Gway & Pa, B&B, & Jon, Valerie, Josh, & Nick all met up for dinner at the our hotel. (Sad I don't have pix of everyone at dinner!) As we were waiting to be seated, I noticed that Garet was missing. It didn't take us long to find that Brad had him waiting in the bar. Thanks, Brad, for being the great example for my 13 year old son! Appreciate it!

This is a great story. Jon's fam stayed in a DIVE of a hotel - cockroaches & all. And down the street from the hotel they rented this "car" from an Arab guy. Shortly afterwards they got a flat tire. Ha ha ha ha! So funny! They fixed the flat and ended up having a BLAST seeing the island in this stupid car. You guys are awesome! I love you!