Aloha Oahu Hawaii !

We arrived Monday. It was a smooth 5 hour flight. The weather here at Oahu Hawaii was nice and clear (about 84F). After we checked into our hotel we looked for a place to eat and walked the Waikiki beach.

Walking the Waikiki beach walkway

Notice the tree behind me. This particular kind of tree are everywhere here in Oahu.

Waikiki and Honolulu look like they had its boom in the 70s since the buildings and hotels have the 70s style.

We also walked in the sandy beach among the busy people enjoying the different activities of the Wakiki beach.




Came across one of the Hawaii famous Luau presented by one of the hotels by the beach




Walked the Wakiki beach until sunset.


After sunset we walked back to our hotel. As we walked back we passed all the restaurants and hotels and discovered there is a crazy night life once the sun goes down in this city.

Scott and Cherline's Wedding

The wedding program was on the chairs for the guests.

The ceremony. Perfect weather for an outdoor wedding.
The wedding took place at the home of the groom's parents property at the outskits of Temecula. They own lots of acres of land with a lot of oak trees, two houses, a creek, a barn, vegetable garden, animals ...

The tables plate setting and program at the reception.
The food was good (sorry no pictures of the food, was too busy eating it)

Gordon having fun at the reception

The cake

The happy newlyweds

Our Day At Mount San Jacinto

Saturday, we decided to have an outing day and went to Mount San Jacinto.
Because all the rain we've been having the mountains were nice and green. But once we got to Palm Spings the moutains were very rocky and dry.
It was a little more than a hour drive from Temecula to Palm Springs.

This Arial Tramway is what takes people up the mountain. The trip up is about 10 minutes.

Waiting for our time call to take the tramway up.
It was in the 70s down here. We almost wanted to take off our coats.

When we first got up there, we started on the hike but there was a snow storm with strong freezing winds. So we went back into the lodge until the storm passed.
(If we had gloves and Gordon a hat, we probably would have tryed the hike in the storm)

Spectacular views from up there! A view down to Palm Springs on one side.
A veiw of great mountiains full of trees and snow on the other side.

My handsome husband

After the storm was over we decided to take a hike down the trail. It was still very cold but at least it was not snowy and windy any more. My hands got very cold, they froze. But other than that it was a very fun hike. There was lots of snow, rocks and trees.

Lots of inches of snow here. Here we are at a picnic area. Gordon is standing on a picnic table. They were all almost completelly covered with snow. I am glad we did not bring a picnic lunch:-)

I was very happy here because I LOVE TREES!
A tree forest! Lots of trees here!

After a fun day in the snow, we went down to Palm Springs and ate at a really good Indian restaurant THE GREAT DELHI PALACE. If you like indian food, we highly recommend it.

See the full album of this day HERE

Line Dancing Adventurer

We Joined Matt and Heidi and two of their San Diego friends Line Dancing last Saturday night.

We have done Square Dancing once before and had a lot of fun. But, we discovered that Line Dancing is nothing like Square Dancing at all. Line Dancing requires learning the steps, practicing them and knowing the steps to be able to participate in the group line dancing that happpens. Matt and Heidi's friend was so patient in teaching us a few steps that night. Heidi was doing well in learning the steps. Matt, Gordon and I were struggling.

For me, the best part was watching people dance. There was a particular girl there (una linda gordita) that was especially good. She was great to watch:-)

Heidi teaching Matt a few steps

La Jolla Mormon Temple

Sabbath after church we took a drive toward San Diego. We ended up heading to La Jolla, but since it was a clear blue sky day, the roads leading to the La Jolla beaches were stop and go. So we decided to take a turn and went to visit the Mormon Temple instead.
We did not go inside the temple since only Mormon Church members are allowed in. But we met this really nice young girl that showed us pictures of the intererior and explained the symbolisim of each room in the temple.

A more distance view of the stunning structure. It bears the image of an ice structure. Here we can see the two towers of the temple.

Here I am enjoying the garden around the temple. Beautiful!
This angle of the garden with the temple on the back looks like if I am in a fairytale land. But I am not. I am really there and the garden and the temple are real.
This temple's celestial look makes me think of the mansions God is preparing for us in heaven.

Close up of some of the flowers

Torrey Pines Gliderport

After the Mormon Temple Sabbath afternoon we also visited the Torrey Pines Glideport. We stayed there until sunset watching people glide. It was very entertaining, fun and relaxing. We think we will come back here in the future so Gordon can get the training that is require to go gliding so he can go gliding and fly.

I noticed this flowers there.

Field Trip to Temecula

Today was a field trip day. Our school took a field trip to KZSW TV Station. This is the Temecula local tv station. The parents of one of my students owns the station so we got the special treatment.
The kids learned a lot about how a TV station is run and got to see first hand how the news and the weather
report is done.

After, we went to the Temecula Children's Museum.
It is a hands on museum. There were so many things for the children to touch and discover.