Day 20 – Time Out

Sometimes in life your body tells you to take a time out from busy.  OK for me, the body tells me on a quarterly schedule.  Today was that day.  We had plans to return to the church in the morning for the unveiling of the cooked pig, volunteer for a bit, have a friend up with her son and show the around the North Shore, all by noon.

Body said no after watching the unveiling(and it wasn’t because of seeing the piggies).  I wasn’t feeling so hot, so we cancelled plans, which I felt horrible about.

We missed the undressing of the imu, arrived in time to see them pulling out the first pig and stayed for a few minutes more.

We retreated home for the rest of the morning.  Around noonish, I felt like I could function for a bit and Mike was a bit bored of sitting around.  We headed out to Wahiawa Botanical Gardens.  It was a quick drive from the North Shore and the walk around the gardens wasn’t time-consuming, mainly because the lower portions were closed.

The garden is beautiful and you wouldn’t realize you are in an urban setting.

After our exploration, I still had a little steam left, so I knew I could do one more short excursion.  We drove by a sacred site, The Kukaniloko Birthing Stones and visited the site.

This is located in a sugar cane field with the beautiful mountains as a backdrop.

You walk down a short dirt road.

There the stones stand.

We meandered about, soaking in the beauty and mystery of this sacred place.

We had one last stop to make on our way home, VJs Butcher Shop.  We had a few items we needed for our final week (boo hoo).

I was pretty spent after our two hour outing.  I rested while, Mike grilled up dinner.  After dinner, he went for a sunset swim and while I stood on land to capture the sunset.  We were treated to a pre show at our sunset show, a rainbow.

So our day was a bit of a break from rush, rush, rush of the last two days.  I had a time out, which was ok, because we have a busy weekend.