Welcome back...

Wow, I guess I needed that 2 month break to get acclimated to my work commute or something!  I'm definitely going back to my goal of posting at least 2 times per month now that we're settled!  Let's play some catch up now...

My last post detailed my love of snorkeling in Hawaii, but I am proud to announce that I have a new favorite hobby: DIVING! Michael and I both got our SCUBA certification:

Us with our instructor and our class mates right after we passed our open water dive at electric beach.

It was an intense class and VERY time consuming! For a whole week, we had to go to class after work from 6-10pm. There were three days of class room instruction and two days pool instruction doing skills. Then, on Saturday and Sunday, we had to do an open water ocean swim and assessment from 7am-12pm both days. It was exhausting! But in the end, we had so much fun and Michael and I were glad that we completed the whole thing.

We ended up going diving with our relator and his friend the next weekend! Here are some pictures of diving at Sharks Cove (sharks cove was awesome by the way because there are lots of underwater caves to explore)!

It was WAY fun! And it just amplified my love of the water and exploring! We can't wait to go again... now we just have to commit and invest in our own gear :)

The cove of sharks

Wow, waaaayyyy overdue for an update!  I'm really trying to keep up with this blog, not only for people I share it with, but for myself!  I want to remember all of the cool things we do.

So here's another one for the books :)

I've fallen in love with snorkeling... Michael has always loved it, but it's really all new to me.  I'm not a great diver or swimmer, but I've taken to it and now there is no turning back!  We go snorkeling at least once every weekend and I've gotten so much better--I owe it all to Michael though.  He's really awesome in the water and I'm grateful that he was especially patient with me (so out of character! haha) while I was learning!  Needless to say, we invested some money into buying nice gear (notice all of mine is pink and Michael's is gamecock colors hehe) for our excursions.  We also splurged (happy birthday to me) on a nice underwater camera-- TOTALLY worth it!

Anyways, Shark's cove is the BEST place to snorkel (well, that we've found so far)!  It's located on the north shore near Wiamea Bay:

We've also gone to Hanauma Bay, Electric Beach, Lanakai, Three Tables and Chun's Beach to snorkel-- but I'll have to write another post about those :)

We were very lucky when we went to sharks cove on this particular day because we got to swim with a Hawaiian Monk Seal!  There are only 1,400 of them in the whole world!  We saw lots of cool fish and sea turtles too.

I'm pretty sure we did this all during Memorial Day weekend because I had time to make this little video... check it out:

shark's cove snorkeling

So, there is a little update of some stuff we've been doing lately... more to come soon!