On Sunday we went to church with Heidi's family in Laie...at 8 am once again! Those crazy Hawaiians. 8:00 is WAY to early for church to begin. We like our Champaign 1st ward time of 11!
The church service was nice, and one of Heidi's neighbors invited us over to her house for lunch after she heard us discussing what we could pull together from what we still had in the fridge. We brought over some food and had a pot-luck of sorts with them under their big tent canopy thing (Heidi says they leave it up all the time because they are always having people over for food outside.) Heidi's neighbors were from Fiji (in fact, they worked in the Fijian village at the Polynesian Cultural Center for a living) and were super nice and friendly. They also cooked super Fijian food. :)
We sat around and visited most of the day, and my dad started learning to play one of Heidi's ukuleles. Later in the evening, we went over to the Laie temple visitor's center and had a look around. The Laie temple is beautiful, but what you may not realize from seeing pictures of it is that if you stand at the door and look out down the terraced steps, you can see straight to the ocean--gorgeous. It looked especially nice with the temple lit up under the full moon.
It was a nice, relaxing day--a vacation within our vacation!
2 comments:
I DIDN'T know that about the Hawaii Temple! That sounds beautiful!
I totally KNEW what Amy was going to say here. ;-) But yes, seriously, that sounds super-cool!
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