Day 15: Waves and Goodbyes

Tuesday was my parents' and Matthew's last day in Hawaii. Their plane left later that night, so we had to check out of our beloved condo Tuesday morning. It took some work to get ourselves extricated from that place--I guess we really felt at home! Once we were finally all packed up, we went to Heidi's house and then up to this little shrimp shack on the side of the road nearby. The garlic shrimp was really fantastic, even if I did have to pull the little legs and shells off myself. (The first one I didn't realize that, but it didn't take me long to learn!) They also had smoothies--mine was banana coconut. I've been craving another ever since!

Then we drove further north back to some of the North Shore beaches. This time, we struck gold with the wave sizes--they were HUGE that day, probably 15 feet or more! We sat around and watched the waves and the wave-riding surfers at Pipeline in awe. Amazing! It sort of made me want to learn how to surf and try it myself. Kind of. Almost. The lifeguards wouldn't let any "normal" people anywhere near the water, though--not even to put your toes in! We also drove along the shore a bit to some areas with rocky shores and watched some more incredible pounding. Since all the cameras were packed up, the pictures of this day are pretty slim pickins (they're all from Kevin's camera phone). I guess you'll all just have to go there yourselves and see!

Mom and Dad and Matthew took off for the airport after that, and Kevin and I crashed at Heidi's house that night. It was a bit of a let-down to sleep on their couches instead of our luxurious master bedroom that night, but we survived and even slept pretty well.