Parable of the Plumeria

Three missions completed and they know stuff!

1st mission - Mission Presidency - Russia

2nd mission - Mission President - Russia

3rd mission - Church Office Building - Salt Lake City

4th and current mission - Troubleshooting for Mission Presidents - Nampa

They took time out to visit us and enjoy some sun, sand and surf.

Oh yeah, and a helicopter tour.

Bruce and Maureen Allcott at Laie Point.

The impressive Ko'olau Mountain Range and part of the Kualoa Ranch.

I took this picture from the internet to show the valleys between the ranges. My picture, above, was taken from the ocean side or front of the mountain range on the left.

Kualoa Ranch tour bus, we rode. It reminded me of a medic bus from the series MASH. The ranch is 4000 acres of a private nature reserve. It is also the site to many TV shows and movies.

We had never heard of this World War II defense gun bunker. It is built into the face of the ranch cliff and has concrete lined tunnels that we walked through. After the war, the military turned it over to the private land owners and is now used as a "movie museum" for the films that have shot scenes at the ranch.

Photo of one of the guns. This is hanging on the wall inside the bunker.

Chinaman's Hat as seen from the mountain side.

Byodo-In Temple, a non-denominational Buddist temple, in Kaneohe. It commemorates the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. It is a beautiful building and is a replica of a 900-year-old temple in Kyoto, Japan. It is not a functioning Buddhist temple and welcomes people of all faiths to worship or meditate.