Sights and Events in November 2015

There are always beautiful sights around the island, especially the sunsets and watching the waves of the ocean.  So calming and peaceful.  We will greatly misses these sights back in Idaho! We also enjoyed a real Thanksgiving Dinner with our Senior Family.  We had everything except olives, none on the island and the sweet potatoes were purple as that is Tonga's sweet potato.  But all was very tasty!  We did not have a lot of time to sight see this month, but here are a few shots that we took.  Hope you enjoy them as much as we have!

These are the Blow Holes and they were really blowing this day, so amazing to watch!

The picture does not do it justice.  In real life the huge wave was a clear blue green, so beautiful.

This was the sunset we enjoyed while watching the Blow Holes.  As always amazing!

Another shot of the sunset at the Blow Holes!

This was a beautiful sunset we had while sitting having dinner at Keleti Resort with a group of Senior Missionaries.  Great food, wonderful company and beautiful sunset!  Who could ask for anything more?  Well it would be nice if my family were here to see it as well!

Here is our Thanksgiving Dinner.  The first couple here is Kaitlyn and Zach, a couple from Wisconsin who are doing their internship at the National Diabetes Center.  They were with us all through National Diabetes  Week events.  We invited them for Thanksgiving Dinner with us and they were very happy to be able to have a Thanksgiving Dinner.  Zach said that it was even better than what he would have had at home, but he says he won't be able to tell his Mom that!  Very nice young people.  We hope that maybe a seed was planted from the little devotional we had at this dinner, so that when the missionaries approach them, they will be open to their message.

This is our group at our Thanksgiving Dinner.

On this day we took Elder and Sister Clarkson, who are from London, to see some of the sights of the island that they have not been able to do yet.  This is the beach at Hina Cave.  It is a beautiful area.

This is Sister Clarkson inside Hina Cave where they do the Fire Shows after the dinner that they do on Wednesday and Friday nights.

Here is Elder and Sister Murdock half way up the stairway leading from Hina Cave.  Such a beautiful view, but very windy!

These are two of the special shells that I found today in our travels to different beaches.  The first in a long time.  I had almost thought Sister Wood took them all home with her, but I guess not!

This is dinner date night with the Seniors.  We have found a new place, Carpe Diem.  It is owned by a German lady, they ground their own beef and make the best hamburgers ever!  And to top it off it is spotlessly clean!  A very wonderful place that we are sure we will visit again!

"The purpose of our life on earth is to grow, develop, and be strengthened through our own experiences."  Robert D. Hales