Sorry i haven't blogged in a while - we just haven't had time, or we've been too exhausted from our travels to sit and write. We are now on the island of Maui. We got here yesterday, and the weather is lovely, and we have a Ford Flex SUV to drive around in. This car does everything except make tea (well, i haven't found the button for the tea-maker yet). It has rear camera for parking, and auto seat adjustment (implies i'm too fat to get out of the car withou...

David pops the question! We finally did it, we got engaged. David proposed at the top of the sacred summit of Mauna Kea. Even though the temperature was less than 3 centrigrade, and he had shorts on, he still got down on one knee (slowly). It was a very special location, over 4000 metres above sea level, and we were the only two people on the summit (apart from a pair of japanese tourists, who took the photo for us). The ring is a single half carat diamond, set...

Big day on Mauna Kea! We caught a shuttle from hotel to Kona town and wandered around the shops. Met this guy who took amazing photos of Hawaii and marine animals. The build up for Ironman is truly over powering. This is not Hawaii, it's triathlon city, David is loving it. He's like a kid in a candy store! you can't help but get swept up in it all. We headed off to Mauna Kea in the afternoon and it seemed like such a long drive. This mountain is the tallest in...

Here we are in the Big Island! We had a bit of a panic about catching the plane from LA to Honalulu, as the LA rush hour traffic was more than we had anticipated. I had to fill the car with fuel, take it back to the rental place, get a shuttle bus to the airport, check in at Hawaiian airways, and get through security, all in under three hours! What was i thinking? In the end we were okay, and made it through security just before they announced the first call ...