snorkel, snorkel, snorkel

I know. It's all I blog about, but it's fun and there isn't much else to do here. Thursday was such a beautiful day that we went snorkeling after work with the kids and puppy at IBM beach. I saw a brittle star, which I thought was incredibly cool.

Saturday we went to Faga'alu where I saw a yellow trumpetfish. We stayed until we got rained out so we drove over to IBM where there was still rain, but no run-off from the pig farms like there is at Faga'alu!

Today we went back to Tisa's. I didn't see anything extremely exciting, but I wasn't out for very long. I did see much bigger fish than other places that we've snorkeled though.

fun stuff

Geckos are all kinds of fun, especially once you learn how to catch them. Everett and Simon have been working on it. And they're getting pretty good at it.

It's a good thing they've found a way to occupy themselves inside since Rainmaker Mountain keeps on making rain. We got rained out on Saturday. Turns out, swimming in the rain isn't that much fun. Well, the swimming's fine, but when you get out and it's cold (ok, we're wimps already) and your towel is wet and you never dry off so the sand never falls off and you end up wet and covered in sand and you try to drive home, it's not so fun. I guess we just need to plan to go to rocky beaches on rainy days.

We were lucky to be invited to a couple parties last weekend which were really fun. And our backyard is pretty fun too. There are loads of these cool, exotic toys sticks lying around for ... uh, swinging around and hitting stuff.

And plenty of lizards and toads to try to spot.

This one, a small marine toad, blended in so well the boys nearly stepped on it.

Of course, I have to mention that there was another event too: this crazy kid turned 8 on Monday. We had a small party with the family.

We'll have even more fun next Saturday when friends come over so we can do it again!