Two more days, first four family members arrive...Interior photos of the house...
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| This sign is in our driveway. One must park carefully to avoid coconut hitting the roof of the rental cars and, more importantly, one's head which could be dangerous. |
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| The living room looking down from the loft level. There are two sofas and plenty of chairs. |
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| The large kitchen table can seat eight by adding two more chairs. Most meals will be buffet style. |
In two weeks before the others arrive, we'll make the two hour drive to Kona to the Costco store to purchase another round for TJ's family and for the remaining two families.
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| The sliding door and window in the master bedroom overlooking the roaring surf. |
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| The house is a tri-levl with this master bedroom on the upper level. |
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| The king sized bed in the loft bedroom. |
Making meals will also be easy. Each family will make their own breakfasts and lunches with all their preferred foods on hand and will have the option of joining Tom and I in dinner each night. Or, if they prefer, they can make their own dinner as well. They only need to tell us in the morning if they'll be joining us.
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| Another view of the living room. |
With many activities planned, some further away, some will join us and others will not. We aren't concerned at all with this plan. It will all work out as it always did when they came to visit in our old lives.
Its been cloudy these past few days, raining off and on, so we've stayed busy organizing things in the house, handling financial matters and accounting, taking videos of the huge surf, walking in the neighborhood taking more photos we'll share tomorrow and enjoying our surroundings.
Yesterday, we had an unexpected surprise when daughter Tammy, significant other Tracy and grandson Vincent, 8, had a beautiful Hawaiian Christmas bouquet delivered to the house. See the photo below. These should last through the holidays since many flowers native to Hawaii, if properly care for, can last for days.
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| Although we'd told our kids, no gifts since we have no room for anything, Tammy, Tracy and Vincent didn't listen. As usual. These Hawaiian flowers are much more beautiful in person. On this rainy and cloudy day, they don't appear as lovely as they actually are. |
With our first load of laundry going in the washer in the garage, the bed made, the kitchen cleaned, I'm chomping at the bit to get out after the wash is done. Tom, of course, is always content to lounge and listen to his radio shows and play with his computer, neither of which he'll do much once the kids arrive.
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| There's a walk in closet in the master bedroom. As you can see, we don't have much in the way of hanging clothes. |
For online security reasons, I prefer to keep photos of the young ones to a minimum. Plus, its easy to tire of seeing photos of other people's grandkids. Right?
May your day be filled with pleasant surprises.
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Photo from one year ago today, December 4, 2013:
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| On our second full day in the bush, two moms and seven babies (one mom and baby not shown in this photo) became regular visitors to our house in Marloth Park. The moms would stare me down asking for pellets, for which I couldn't ever resist providing. The moms would let the babies eat first. They were so sweet, I fell in love with the warthogs as those of our reader know from our three months in Marloth Park, beginning one year ago. Please click here for details as I wrote, "Morning doesn't come soon enough." So true. |