Day 4

Sunday was a very busy day. We visited New Hope church in Honolulu. Their Pastor Wayne spoke a Pinelake several months ago. It is a large church that meets in a high school gym & also has tents set up outside. They have 3 or 4 other locations & do 5 services each weekend. After church we went for our submarine tour. This was very cool! They have placed sunken ships, planes & other things as artificial reef in the area, so there are plenty of fish to see. We saw a sea turtle at one of the ships. There was also a small tiger shark, but it was on the other side of the sub, so we did not see it. Next we headed to hike Diamond Head. It was a beautiful hike, but much easier coming down than going up : ) Most of the trail is unpaved, but that is the easy part. The 200+ stairs was hardest part, at least for me. But the view was worth it. The boys wanted to do it again, but Robert & I said no to that idea. We had a few waterfalls we had hoped to see, but since we had rain one day & had to reschedule the sub tour, we picked the shortest walk & went to Kapena Falls. It was a beautiful, short walk though a wooded area to a small waterfall. The trail follows the waterfall as it travels down the hill & it was hard to believe we were really still in town. Except for the fact that unfortunately, some rocks has been scared with graffiti & towels & other things have been left on an overlook at the falls, it was a beautiful area. We went back to Sandy Beach where the boys got to body board and play in the ocean until the sun went down. Then we drove into town & ate dinner at Kobe Japenses Steakhouse. My dad & I ate at the same restaurant when I as about Jake’s age.