We were a little late leaving the gate from San Jose to Kona - they had to deice the plane!  I didn't even know that they had the equipment to deice planes in San Jose!!!  But if you wanted a good motivator to get off to a tropical island - deicing ranks right up there!

Hawaii - the Big Island is lava rich - circling to land you could see the flow and imagine that heat it took to melt rock.  Rivers and channels of black rock cover the hillsides...

Nitsa's brother Calvin and his wife Angie couldn't be more welcoming.  Flowers in the bedroom, books on the tables - delcious food and drink...aloha.

Ukehele

snorkel

sunset.....