Fun with Sister Jones!

Some of you have met Sister Jones, our friend from Georgia. In fact, she asked about Shiloh and Cami and how they were doing. Well she and her husband have just moved to Oahu. She asked Ryan and I if we wanted to spend a day with her. Her husband had to go back to the mainland for a week and she was really wanting company. So Monday Feb. 1st, was our day with Sister Jones.
First we went to Haliewa Joe's for lunch. I had some delicious marlin tacos.
Then we went to some lagoons by her house to go snorkeling. She lives on the other side of the island.
There was so much to see! We're getting better at identifying species, although there are still a lot we don't recognize or know. We saw convict tangs, different varieties of wrasses, needlefish, unicorn fish, parrot fish, butterfly fish, some eels, trigger fish (humuhumunukunukuapua'a), and we swam along side some sea turtles (honu)!
The water was very clear and calm.
That dot on Ryan's finger is actually a tiny crab.
Sister Jones doesn't like the water, but she loves the sand.
She likes pools, but not the ocean because she doesn't enjoy swimming with other creatures. We tried to convince her she was missing out.
Since she lives so close to the Marriott, we walked over there to see their man-made lagoons that housed bonnetheads and stingrays.

This one was about 3 1/2 to 4 feet. Five feet is about the max length for a bonnethead shark.
He was the biggest one as you can see by the little guy up in the right hand corner of the picture.
The starfish were pretty! They reminded me of the one Cody and Hillary found in Puerto Rico.
Then we stopped at the stingray lagoon.
I liked this guy's markings.
Hillary, aren't you glad you didn't step on this guy?
He was a rather large specimen.
I liked his eyes.
Then we watched the sunset. We get sunrises in Laie, so this was actually the first sunset we saw since we moved here.
Just another day in paradise.

PS- Brother and Sister Jones have a spare bedroom and bathroom and have opened an invitation to all who want to visit. Since all their kids are grown, they welcome company and were excited to hear that Cali and Travis and Gideon were considering an Easter visit and that mom and dad had mentioned one around Thanksgiving. They have a pool, a kiddie pool with an artificial beach, a hot tub, and beach access. Plus there's a divine bakery just down the street from their house where one can get hot malasadas.