So happy to see the water cleaned out.  Being that we live on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it doesn’t take long.  Surf, foil, or dive:  that’s my life.  Two days ago I surfed, yesterday I foiled, so today was a good day to dive with these perfect conditions!

Went out to my normal spot looking for tako.  It’s the beginning of tako season so there were a lot.  I saw 5 in under an hour.  

The deeper you go to get tako out of the hole, the faster you have to do it.  The crazy thing is you don’t actually know how big the tako is until you see the legs coming out of the hole.  The thicker they are, the bigger it is.  

This one was a little too small so I let it go.  I followed it to see what it was going to do.  This is how I learn more about their behavior.  

If you don’t chase it, it will stop, grab onto the reef, and look at you. If you don’t approach it, you can have a staring contest from a distance.  But once you get too close, it will swim away and hide in the next hole it finds.

I found 5 but just took one home for dinner.  The cool thing is I can go back out to the same exact spot and they will still be there.  I’m going to wait until they get bigger.  

The biggest pod of dolphins swam right up to the boat.  There were a hundred of them swimming so peacefully.  Came in, washed up, and going to start preparing this tako for dinner!

Blue is back! Tako poke time!

This entrance to the Hilton Hotel was blocked off for the past 40 days.  Hundreds of strikers blocking it, yelling, and screaming.  I know people who stayed at the hotel during the strike and they told me it was very unpleasant.  Paying $400/night for a room with no service and strikers yelling all day long.  That’s not a good way to spend a vacation here in Hawaii.  I also know people that were striking and they told me they had no choice.  I understand both sides and just thankful that it’s over.

I don’t allow electronic devices or the television on when the kids come over to play.  They only get to play with toys and their loud crazy Uncle.  Haha.  But they seem to love it.  Then when they get tired and fussy, or it’s time to change their diaper, I simply send them home.  Haha.

My brothers and I all played little league baseball.  The Moniz kids all played too.  Now it’s the next generation of the family playing.  It’s pretty funny because our family is big so we have the biggest cheering section.  Here is coach Micah pitching to Keahi.  

The Shohei Ohtani swing!

Honouliwai is pretty funny.  He’s running all over the field bumping into his teammates trying to get every ball.  Then during the game, he runs to the cooler and drinks Gatorade whenever he feels like it.  It’s pretty hilarious.  Now I have free comedy every Saturday afternoon.