#5 – March 8th, a lot of sleep, some more shopping and an awesome beach

Ava woke up at 1am local time last night. That hasn’t happened for many, many, many months and it was a little disturbing. She was awake for an hour, then fell asleep for another 4 hours. As has become our custom here, we hung out and played for 1.5 hours then put her down for a nap. She slept for an hour and 15, which was great!

We went out and did a little shopping. Miranda wanted to return something to the kids store, we needed a few groceries and I wanted some nasal spray for diving.

Oh yeah, I was supposed to go diving today, but I rebooked for tomorrow as I was still suffering from a cold. It was a weird e-mail chain – I asked to reboot yesterday morning, then said to ignore that e-mail yesterday evening, then when I woke at 1am because of Ava I got an e-mail asking if I wanted to rebook for Friday or Saturday. So at 1am I had to make a decision for the day, which wasn’t great, but I decided not to risk it. Feeling good tonight! Got the nasal spray anyway to make sure I stay feeling good!

We got more shave ice, because we were walking past it and the line-up was non-existent. It’s usually quite long!

She’s not actually eating the shave ice — to much sugar for us to be ok with that. 🙂

We went home, put Ava down and she slept for another hour and a quarter. Also unheard of.

At this point we thought she would be awake for the rest of the day – about 4 hours. But at 1.5 hours, after feeding and playing for a bit, she was getting real whiny. We decided to put her down…and she slept again! For another hour and a quarter!

After she woke, we piled into the car and drove to a beach a short drive away. That’s the downside of Hawaii – very little is walkable!

The waves were high, but there was a section that had a good protective reef that I got in to go snorkeling. I didn’t take any photos this time, but as I was swimming back in a big shadow appeared which gave me a start! As it resolved into a turtle, I followed him for a bit and then continued back to the beach.

Miranda and Ava were hanging out there, and didn’t really want to be there for long. The view was stunning, but very windy. I dried off, and picked up Ava and stood in the tides with her for a bit before we drove home.