Kona… kinda

Mom works for a musical instrument company and LT Smooth, an Eastman associate, is building a school for local children to learn up to 13 different trades like ukulele and guitar making, welding, plumbing, electrical and culinary arts.
Look at the detail on the roof!
LT and a friend built this pool by watching YouTube videos.
Beautiful wall.
And another. He started off in music playing horns.
Another trade is music engineering.
The future welding room.
He took us on a drive through the campus.
Not a bad view from the top!
Our ride on the big island!
Sunset view from our hotel in Kona.
We woke up the next morning ready to board a luxury catamaran to snorkel.
But I woke up and checked the internet as I do.
So we jumped on the Saddle Road to cross the island instead.
We didn’t take this road last time we were here but it pretty much runs between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
And suddenly everything was more “jungelly”
Wait! Is that LAVA!?!?!?! This volcano nerd finally saw lava!!!!
The National Park, USGS and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory all agree that she will have a bigger eruption in the next 24 hours!
Mom and I found this cute restaurant last time we were here so we came back.
Our sandwich we ordered three years ago was discontinued so we tried our best to recreate it.
Diving helmet for my aunt Christina.
Of course we met another kitty!

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