Kailua Beach and Sites Nearby
We spent a week in Kailua visiting the beach every day, swimming, building sand castles, and hanging out in the midst of such natural beauty! We also had a chance to check out a few sites nearby, go to church on Sunday, and we even attended a memorial service in Honolulu.
Sampling Hawaiian shave ice in Kailua -- the first of many shave ice outings -- a Hawaiian cultural experience!
We took a very steep hike up Pill Box overlooking Lanikai Beach in Kailua. Luke and Joy did very well, and we all made it back safely. Whew!
We took a trip into the nearby mountains to check out the Japanese Buddhist temple called Byodo-In, commemorating the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii.
We got to know our neighbors staying next door and had some fun listening to Kaylen play ukulele while we sang and danced.
We've been seeing and smelling beautiful flowers every day!
We've received small gifts of hospitality from the people of Hawaii all along the way. Grounds maintenance guys trimming palm trees gave us a coconut, and we drank some refreshing coconut water right from the coconut!
We visited a farmer's market in a mall and had some more amazing food -- Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, and Hawaiian!
Joy is enjoying a poke bowl. This poke is diced raw ahi (tuna) with spices -- a Hawaiian specialty!
My first mixed plate in Hawaii -- rice, macaroni salad, and garlic chicken, fried shrimp, and kalbi (Korean ribs).
We checked out He'
We worshiped at Parker United Methodist Church on Sunday. It is a small multiethnic congregation in Kaneohe that started as a Japanese congregation, merged with a Samoan congregation, and now has a Korean pastor. Their community also has worshipers who are Filipino, Tongan, Chinese, and Caucasian. The congregation is active in their community, serving at a local thrift shop and involved in ministries among people experiencing homelessness. I'm going to connect with their pastor in the future to talk about multiethnic ministry.
When we first arrived in Oahu we learned that a cousin of Leigh's mom had died (at age 96!), and her funeral service was happening at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Honolulu. We drove to the service, and Leigh said it was strange to be surrounded by so many relatives of the Hawaiian Chinese community but to not know very many of them since her mom left Hawaii in her mom's early 20's. Here's Leigh with her distant cousin Mary whom she was meeting for the first time. We connected with Leigh's uncle Warren, and we will be sharing a meal with him soon.
We were sad to say good-bye to such a beautiful place--Kailua--but we're on to more beautiful places, and it was time to meet Grandma and Papa at the airport in Honolulu!
Sampling Hawaiian shave ice in Kailua -- the first of many shave ice outings -- a Hawaiian cultural experience!
We took a very steep hike up Pill Box overlooking Lanikai Beach in Kailua. Luke and Joy did very well, and we all made it back safely. Whew!
We took a trip into the nearby mountains to check out the Japanese Buddhist temple called Byodo-In, commemorating the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii.
We got to know our neighbors staying next door and had some fun listening to Kaylen play ukulele while we sang and danced.
We've been seeing and smelling beautiful flowers every day!
We've received small gifts of hospitality from the people of Hawaii all along the way. Grounds maintenance guys trimming palm trees gave us a coconut, and we drank some refreshing coconut water right from the coconut!
We visited a farmer's market in a mall and had some more amazing food -- Filipino, Thai, Vietnamese, and Hawaiian!
Joy is enjoying a poke bowl. This poke is diced raw ahi (tuna) with spices -- a Hawaiian specialty!
My first mixed plate in Hawaii -- rice, macaroni salad, and garlic chicken, fried shrimp, and kalbi (Korean ribs).
We checked out He'
We worshiped at Parker United Methodist Church on Sunday. It is a small multiethnic congregation in Kaneohe that started as a Japanese congregation, merged with a Samoan congregation, and now has a Korean pastor. Their community also has worshipers who are Filipino, Tongan, Chinese, and Caucasian. The congregation is active in their community, serving at a local thrift shop and involved in ministries among people experiencing homelessness. I'm going to connect with their pastor in the future to talk about multiethnic ministry.
When we first arrived in Oahu we learned that a cousin of Leigh's mom had died (at age 96!), and her funeral service was happening at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Honolulu. We drove to the service, and Leigh said it was strange to be surrounded by so many relatives of the Hawaiian Chinese community but to not know very many of them since her mom left Hawaii in her mom's early 20's. Here's Leigh with her distant cousin Mary whom she was meeting for the first time. We connected with Leigh's uncle Warren, and we will be sharing a meal with him soon.
We were sad to say good-bye to such a beautiful place--Kailua--but we're on to more beautiful places, and it was time to meet Grandma and Papa at the airport in Honolulu!
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