Yellow Fish cruises: More photos from Hawaii

Greetings from Hawaii!

Thank you so much for the many, many emails I received about our experience during the Emergency Alert a week ago. I had hoped to respond personally to each of them, but there are close to 100, and there is just no way I can do that. Please know that I’ve read and appreciate all of them, and was very comforted by your thoughts. Though we had been calm in the moment, we admittedly felt a bit shaken afterward that day. However, we realized, in hearing others’ stories on TV and on the internet, that we had been very fortunate. We were in our hotel room instead of on the road or on the beach, we had no other family members in danger, and, most of all, we were together.

And the next morning we moved on.

I have just finished uploading several hundred additional photos from our Golden Princess cruises to my blog (yay!). In my spare time ;-) we’ve been busy having fun in Hawaii. We marched with the Hare Krishnas in the MLK Jr. Day Parade (really), marched from the Royal Mausoleum to Iolani Palace to commemorate the 125th overthrow of the Hawaiian government and to honor the memory of Queen Liliuokalani (really), hiked the Makapu’u Lighthouse, Diamond Head crater, Kolowalu and Puu Pia trails, took a whale watching tour (and saw two whales breaching and blowing!), did a sunset cruise, and watched sunset every night, weather permitting.

It’s been fantastic!

Instead of blogging, I’ll just upload a daily sunset photo for every day the weather and our whereabouts permit. Since our weather has been superb until this evening, I have several to share. I hope they provide some warmth during the cold winter days at home.