Boxing Day Updates

We are enjoying a holiday visit from my parents, and thankfully accomplishing a lot while they are here. I will take pictures of the projects tomorrow. First project was to encase 500' of phone wire in pipe so that we could have a phone in the back cabin (where we are living).

Between projects one day we went to the "end of the road" in Kalapana to see if we could see the lava flowing into the ocean. We arrived too early to go to the viewing site (only open from 2pm to 10pm), but we were able to escape some rain and visit the Black Sand Beach (now covered by lava from the 80's) that was Kalapana Black Sand Beach. Above is my Dad & Kyle (looking through the binoculars) and below is my Mom & Reeve.

The rooms in the back cabin are fairly small, so we decided that hammocks would be ideal vs. beds. We'll see how they work out. Reeve and Kyle are already sleeping in their hammocks, and loving them. After the first night in his hammock Reeve said he had the best night of sleep he's had in his whole life! I'd say that was an endorsement for hammock sleeping. I told him he looked like a baby in a sling.

Stella and Reeve snuggling. Please ignore the messy room...it actually has been cleaned (today!).

Christmas morning, Stella finding her new push-bike (no pedals) and Elmo helmet.

She loves riding it around. Luckily we've been enjoying drier weather and our lakes are subsiding.

Our happy duckies in their puddle.

More pictures of recent projects to come!