Mostly Minis

Last weekend was interesting. Friday and Saturday night both, I watched for coral spawning, but seems like Monitpora capitata are done for this year.

Saturday, I got a couple pics of Vic working on his truck and Bailey just hanging out. She's good at supervising when Vic does car stuff.

Saturday night, Vic went out with his friend Michael, and I hung out for a bit with my friend Mel. Somehow the boys wandered into where we were for a bit though. Long enough for me to snap a picture anyway.

Not quite sure what Mel and I were laughing about, but it must have been funny.



So all that was great, but Sunday was packed full of goodness! Got up early, as I usually do on Sundays to go teach horseback riding lessons at Therapeutic Horsemanship of Hawaii in Waimanalo, which is an amazing place where kids of all abilities can come to enjoy the healing effects of connecting with horses. I'm always busy when I'm there and never think to pull out my camera, but happily one of the volunteers, Crystal, snapped a picture of myself and Kelsey and Savannah, two of our other volunteers in action doing a field ride for one of our smallest riders.



After THH, I rushed home and grabbed Vic and we went out to Kualoa Beach Park for the end of a Mini Cooper rally. They had started at Kaka'ako Park in town and drove around the south end of the island, past Sandy's, Haunama Bay, Makapu'u and Waimanalo and all the way up through Kaneohe. It was the 50th Birthday of Mini (today I believe), and Friday was the 50th Anniversary of Statehood for Hawaii so their goal was to get 50 Minis together. I think they made it and it was so awesome to see so many Minis all together. I just got mine back in March and, if you've talked to me much since then, you probably know how much I love it. First pic is of mine and its little friend who had actually followed me from Waimanalo for awhile thinking he was going to be the last one there, but then laughed when he said he lost me when I stopped to pick up Vic. So many Minis!













The old Minis were super-awesome to see. Check out the rag top sunroof on the one on the left. So cool!



It was great seeing all the Minis. Not a single two were alike. It was amazing. Equally amazing was the variety of people who were there as Mini owners...men, women, young, old, all races. So neat.

Mini of Hawaii provided burgers and hot dogs and other picnic stuff and everyone hung out for awhile. Super-fun.

Vic even found a tree to act like a monkey. :)



After that we went out with Mary and Ned on their boat to the sandbar in the middle of Kaneohe Bay. Despite many times of attempting to get out there with various groups of people, this was Vic and I's first time at the sandbar. It was super-nice.




Vic has been helping Ned with their boat off-and-on for awhile now. It is an interesting boat that Ned built himself from a kit. It's always fun to hang out with them, but sometimes the boat has issues, so Vic brought his tools along. We were all giggling about it until the boat wouldn't start out at the sandbar. Good thing he had the tools. He fixed it right up and we were on our way.

Checking out the motor...



Finished off the day with dinner at Macaroni Grill with our friends Sam (fidget DJ Sam Ondarox) and his wife Danielle.

Another great day in Hawaii. Woot! :)