Broken Toe

We've had an interesting few days here in Waikiki! The weather has been absolutely glorious, in fact a little too glorious for my liking! I prefer things a little cooler and have spent a lot of time hopping from shady tree to shady tree or wrapping myself up in big scarves.

On Friday we spent some time looking around Honolulu zoo. We just loved it there when we came in 2006 and they've made it even better for 2008! We spent a lot of time trying to figure out which animal Paul had (very) recently evolved from, but it was a little difficult to tell. He seemed to resemble the bear quite a bit, but then there were definitely similarities with the warthog, of course it could well have been the orang-utan as they apparently use tools and make themselves a bed to sleep in at night. I guess we'll just never know. We visited the Honolulu Aquarium on Saturday, again we've been before but it's just too good to miss. We got some great shots of fish and other sea life before the kids drove us away.

We thought we'd have a restful beach day on Sunday (yesterday), so headed on down to Waikiki beach. Unfortunately the rest of the Waikiki visitors had the same idea, so it was really crowded, but we did eventually find a spot to rest the beach mats on. Paul went straight down to the sea with his underwater camera and I wrapped myself in scarves and sat under an umbrella on the beach (it was very, very hot!). Paul came back from the sea about half an hour later and we decided to move on as I wasn't feeling too well and Paul had hurt is foot. Basically the waves had pulled him down onto the reef and he had one black and swollen toe and another with spines embedded in it. We assumed the black toe was broken so did our best to dig out the spines then rested the other foot on some pillows for most of the day. After much badgering Paul saw a quack this morning who told him that it was just a bad sprain. Anyway, we cheered him up by going to the Harley shop and buying him a really nice leather Harley jacket, but it looks like we're staying off the beach for a few days until the toe is better again.