Late nights do not make for early mornings. 6am came and I quickly covered my head with the pillow and went back to sleep. I think I managed to avoid the dawn all the way up until around 8am. This morning Jen beat me up and was brewing fresh Kona coffee and working on a batch of the most amazing pancakes.

Today would be a lazy day. We’re been off conquering our tropical paradise since the moment our plane pulled up to our tiki airport and today we would rest. The kids played happily with the kids from down the block; they rode bikes, played with water guns, and attempted to learn to ride a unicycle courtesy of one of the kids who live down at Belly Acres.

Somewhere after lunch we decided we were ready to venture out in search of tide pools. Every thirty minutes we enjoyed a light downpour but the kids hardly noticed. We found a few amazing black cowrie shells and a few other fancy shells with names I can’t recall.

The black sand and rocks were amazing, and much to our delight the water splashed violently all around us. This would be the most excitement we would find all day, and that was just fine with all of us.