Maui, day 1

Joe and Cristin went diving at 6am, we sat Jackson until 1 or so.  Jackson’s a really easy little guy, full of smiles.  The only crankiness emerges when he’s hungry or when he’s feeling the effects of teething.  Two teeth coming in now, one top, one bottom.  We really enjoyed him a lot today.

When Joe/Cristin returned we went to one of the dive shops we’re using here, and we picked up jackets which are worn under wet suits, providing extra warmth, but no buoyancy.  We had to then drive up to a shop in Lahaina that had Pattie’s size.  We’ll be heading to Lahaina for many of our dives, so this was a good trial run to see how long the drip is (30+’).

We’d arranged to attend a luau this evening, and it was quite a spectacle...

Hilo, day 11

A rainy, rainy day, and that made for lots of writing through the day. 

Still feeling good about the ending section written over the past few days, though not sure I’m eager to hear that it’s too difficult.  I like it, and have tried to limit the pitch material so that it’s basically a single chord being arpeggiated by each voice, creating the overlapping ‘licking flames’…

I’ll try to make it very clean and send off this ending to James at some point tomorrow, and we’ll see how tepid his reaction is….

Excited that Joe, Cristin, and Jackson are flying this way tomorrow! Can’t wait to hang with this little guy for a few weeks in Maui when we meet them there on Saturday!