Started the weekend off right by waking up at 4:30am on Saturday to work the farmers market again for Naked Cow dairy. Found a new stand on our way home called Aunty Nels where she cooks all of her own food (her specialities are pork laulau tacos and cheesecake). We picked up lunch to go and brought it back to the cafe to eat. I served that night at the cafe which was surprisingly slow before the holidays.
On Sunday Min and I relaxed in the morning and then after lunch a group of us went to Yokohama, "Yokes" and enjoyed the afternoon snorkeling and swimming. I was pretty worn out from such a "hard day" that I went to bed at 8pm and only woke up at 8am Monday morning to the breakfast bell.
It was Christmas Eve on Monday and although I was starting to get more sad that I wasn't at home for Christmas, I was thankful that I was at Kahumana Farms and that I was with good company! After breakfast Kelly (another wwoofer) and I started to get pretty restless. It was not prime beach weather at all, so there wasn't much to do before our big Christmas dinner at 6. We hopped on a bus and headed towards Kapolei ( a small city about 20 minutes away). We went to a vegetarian store called Down to Earth and many other stores to pick up some last minute treats for the holidays. Also, all of the wwoofers decided to do secret santa, so I had to pick up another small gift for Kelly. We wondered around, got coffee, shopped, went to Genki Sushi (this restaurant that sushi comes around on conveyor belts and you take off the one that you want) and also printed/cut a game to play after dinner called Cards of Humanity (similar to apples to apples). We headed back just in time for Christmas dinner. The room was beautiful and all of the food smelled so good. Min carved the turkey and I "helped". 
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| Robert's Wife and Susie (one of the ladies that lives on property) |
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| Robert starting off the readings |
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| Ranjii's (the chef) daughter. |
There were about 20 people at dinner including 2 people that had stopped by Kahumana in hopes of eating at the cafe. Robert led the readings at the beginning and then people from the community read different parts aloud. It was a small ecumenical service, but it was nice to have prayer and lighting of the candles before the meal. We had Thanksgiving pretty much all over again as Lucus, Robert's youngest son was not here for Thanksgiving as he was at school in Oregon finishing up his first semester of freshman year. Nobody could complain because the food was incredible all over again!
I went back home and played a few rounds of the new game. It was a lot of fun and a good game to play on Christmas Eve. After the game, we went back home and turned on the Christmas lights, pandora Christmas station and started Miracle on 34th street.
I woke up Christmas morning and I looked outside and it was cloudy out! I was sure it was going to be a gloomy boring day. We went to breakfast and then opened our stockings that mom had sent us. We opened the other gifts from my grandparents and then called our families. It was great to talk to my family and hear about their Christmas morning. After organizing my stocking goodies, a bunch of us decided that we needed to leave the farm and find something to do. Jake, Kelly, Min and I drove around Waianae Valley which we had never seen and then got starbucks :). We headed back in hopes of having Thanksgiving leftovers, but instead had curry and rice per usual. We decided at lunch that we would set out again for "Yokes" and see if people were surfing today.
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| Jake spinning fire as the waves come |
We got to Yokes and the surfing was great. There were a lot of people out. The waves were incredible and it is crazy to think that they will only get bigger by at least 10 more feet.
We started walking down the trail that takes you to Kaena point. It was beautiful and we took many pictures. It wasn't a clear beautiful hiking day, but it was perfect for this hike. I had a lot of fun and although I missed my family tons, I had a good Christmas!
