Wrapping up at School, Hula Show, & Night Volcano

Last night we went to Reeve and Kyle's "Closed" House in their classrooms. It was a potluck and most of the families were there. The students produced their yearbooks and they were distributed. Each class had an Awards Ceremony. Kyle's Award was titled: "Oh My Gauss, that was Rayediant." Kyle's teacher explained how he and Reeve's teacher were very impressed when Kyle re-worked mathematician Carl F. Gauss's (1828) Equation and Kyle simplified it for the class. Kyle's teacher said that Kyle likes to rework all the math equations, he was a budding entrepreneur (Reeve & Kyle's Juggling stick business is called Rayediant Fun) and that he was a fun guy to have around. Below Kyle is working on his last school project (a presentation on juggling sticks) and Reeve is studying for his final exams on our way to a Hula show at Volcanoes National Park. 

Reeve's award was titled: "Unbridled Pencil and Cognition Sharpener" I think the first part was an inside joke. Reeve was in the most "Top 5" categories for best scores in all his subjects. We also watched video interviews of each of the students. It was a great way for the kids to wrap up the school year. Today they wind down by cleaning up, putting the finishing touches on a video yearbook, and time to autograph yearbooks. Tomorrow is a Fun Day at the Main Campus for their last day of school. Then they have 9 wonderful weeks off before it all starts again (all too soon imho!) on July 30th!!!

 It was a fairly clear night when the Volcanoes National Park had a free Hula Show, so we had our dinner and traveled the 24 miles up to the Kilauea Visitors Center.

 It was an interesting show.

 Reeve took some videos...

Then we went over to the Jagger Museum to look at the awesome glow of the Halema'uma'u Crater. It is completely amazing that we live so close to the world's most active volcano! How often do you find yourself saying, "Oh it looks like it's going to be a clear night tonight, let's go up and see the Volcano!!".   

 Reeve took the above and below picture of the glowing lava lake.

 The following pictures were taken by me. I had put the camera on the rock wall to stabilize it. 

 The little white dots in the pic above are stars. It was a crystal clear night and about 57F at the Crater, which was 10 degrees cooler than our place 24 miles and 3200ft below the crater.