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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all 4 of my readers.  We spent Christmas on the Big Island this year.  It was a nice week away and quite an experience.  Where else but Hawaii can you go from a black sand beach to a volcano to a snow-capped mountain?  Some of the highlights include:

- water slides at the beach resort

- petroglyph fields

- driving the family 2 1/2 hours in a car for the first time in over 3 years

- sea horse farm

- black sand beach

- eating lunch at the “Southern most bakery in the United States”

- caving an old lava tube

- watching the creation of new land, courtesy the Kilauea volcano

- Geocaching at 9500′

- driving 13 miles (each way) up a one-lane, pseudo paved road to 10,500′ to see snow

- 36 hours of torrential rain

By the way, if you take your wife’s new portable GPS on a trip with you, you can save yourself $30 by bringing the power cord. 

Here are a few pics:

J