I can see clearly now...

I stepped outside this afternoon and took pictures of our house and surroundings to show you what it looks like with clear skies. It's funny because when my mom was here visiting in September I told her I didn't think Oahu had cloudless days. Now I'm eating my words! The benefit of clear skies is that the temperature drops down at night. It was 71 degrees in our bedroom last night (exciting to us). The flip side is that it is uncomfortably hot during the day.

The Ko'olau mountains that we live near usually have clouds hanging over the top of them. Occassionally we will have a day where we get to see the tops of them, but usually it is only for a couple of hours. Yesterday (Sunday) it was clear like this also. We planned to go to the beach in the afternoon, but I was too tired and Tom wanted to watch the 7th game between the Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians. We haven't gotten used to watching major sporting events in the afternoon. It's not quite the same as watching them in the evening, like we're used to. Tom and I noticed how everyone in the stands at Fenway Park had on coats. We were laughing about it as we were lounging around in our shorts and t-shirts. Then we both said we'd rather be wearing the coats!






Bad, baaad glare here, but at least you get the gist of the skyline. I see the peak of this mountain from the kitchen window. When it rains really hard, multiple waterfalls will cascade down it's peaks. It's beautiful. We are close enough that you can actually see the water flowing! The sunshine has been nice in the house because most of the time it is so dark. We don't have good lighting in the house so the sun is very welcome.

I just checked our bedroom thermometer and it read 83.4. Ugh! I miss central air!