Peaman & Pier Jumping

Our day started off with Ryan participating in his first kiddie run of the year...Peaman's Turtle Trudge!  The last two races he did were over the holidays, which might explain his ah...'rustiness' at the starting line.  Or more accurately- his flat out refusal to take a step after the race started.  :-)  Not even Keni, Riki, Paulina or his beloved Makenna scampering off without him were enough to get him moving.  When I asked him why he didn't want to run, he said, "Because I don't want to get tired."  Well all righty then!  At least he's honest. :-) Thankfully, after a few minutes of being bribed with some beach time IF he ran the race (tee hee, we were going anyway), he was game!

Both of my boys hamming it up for the camera, just shy of the halfway turnaround point.

Stopping off for a quick hug from Grandma (who was on her way to church).

Running the last few hundred yards in on the sea wall...much more scenic.  :-)

Yaaay!  Mr. Lazy finished!  

Keni ran his first ever 5-miler (by accident, they missed the 2-mile turn around), but still!  What a champ!  FIVE miles! He's only 9!  At 9 years old the only distance I would run was between the car and the ice cream parlor.  

After the race, we did a quick swim in the bay (much, much better today- new goggles, the "special" lotion to prevent fogging...and I was rewarded with clear visibility of the colorful fish and coral!).  After that, we let the boys (that's Riki above) jump off the pier with their friends Duke & Makenna.  So of course Ryan insisted he wanted to jump too.  I had to jump in first and tread water while he peered down at me, fear written all over his face- but he did it!  He jumped!  Super proud of the little daredevil.

All good things must come to an end.  Here's Rich post-swim, and Ryan post-jump and mid-meltdown (he was cold, tired and ready to go home)  ;-)

Days don't get much better than this.  It ends tonight with dinner at a friend's house that we haven't seen in ages...and who also happens to be a gourmet cook, so yay!

Rich is off tomorrow, so we're going to see if we can head up to Mauna Kea and see last night's snow!!!  Fingers crossed the road is open- little Hawaiian Ryan has yet to touch snow!