Bodies!

We finally made it to the bodies exhibit! We went on Saturday after a busy morning of a daddy/daughter hike for the achievement girls (that's gonna leave me with some nice quiet time when they're all old enough), and HSM3. (Justin and I could barely contain our cookies during the show).
The bodies exhibit wasn't the first thing on Justin's list of fun but he ended up liking it more than he expected. The girls were pretty fascinated by the whole thing and had lots of questions. The best part was in the beginning when an old, creepy looking guy in a lab coat came up to the girls and in a VERY eerie, slow voice, said "Heeellllllooooooooo ladies...... can I help you with anything?" YIKES! He worked there (obviously) and I think he was purposefully trying to creep them out.
Okay, maybe that wasn't the best part. It could have been when Rachel was looking at one of the bodies that had bone and deep tissue and asked "is this a boy or a girl?"
Umm...... heelllooooo?!?! It has boy parts so it must be a.... BOY! I guess we need to have an anatomy lesson since she's not getting any baby brothers! WOW. Thats all I can say. Wow.
One of the neat things for the girls to see was the healthy lungs compared to a smokers lungs. That was a really good, powerful, visual for them.
The neatest part for me was seeing the embryos at different stages. That is something I've always wanted to see. The whole fetal development is so amazing.
If you're wondering if you should go...... DO IT!

Hiking!

The girls and I and some friends hiked up the Waimano trail. It was our first hiking experience here so far and we had a blast! When we first started out Lilly said it was the perfect place for alligators and snakes..... and if Hawaii had snakes.... it sure would have been! The trail was beautiful, overgrown and full of roots in the ground that we had to watch out for. On the way up we got to see our first real guava fruit (unfortunately it was starting to rot) and a really cool waterway tunnel that cut through the mountain and met up again on the trail, (which the kids got to hike through). The three miles seemed to go by so fast with all the fun we were having. At the top of the trail we were rewarded with some awesome strawberry guava plants that had plenty growing on them. They had a lot of edible seeds inside them but were really good and tasted a lot like strawberries. I wished we would have taken a bunch home to make jelly with.
On the way home we stopped at the worlds coolest McDonald's. We pulled through the drive through which was just a small little shed sized building. Just as I was starting to wonder how they got the food outside to the car.... we noticed that overhead was a conveyor belt bringing all the food from the main building over to the drive-through. It was fun to watch all those kids meals being sent over.