For Many Days, We Labored

I haven't updated in so long! Two days...three days? Two days? Three. Three days or so sounds right. Anyway, I wish I could say I had a good excuse, but I really don't. I just was tired, and then bored, and than tired again, and than I forgot to finish some of my Spanish homework so I had to stay up late working on that.
Anyway, let me start at the volcanoes. I don't actually remember much, so I guess I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves.

This looks small. It is not. It is what used to be a small, green valley (in the '50's). Than, the small caldera called Ici, I believe, on the side of the Kilauea volcano, exploded and doused the valley in 400 ft. of molten lava which took almost a month to dry, and almost 20 years to cool all the way through.

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Here's the big hole all the lava came out of (it's caved in and smothered in greenery now).

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This is Ed next to a big crack in the middle of the above pictured big hole.

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Weirdly, there is a surprising amount of green in the big hole.

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Then, we went to see a place in the middle of the desert were some people (nobody's exactly sure who, except they seem to have lived a long time ago) carved lots of pictures in the lava.
It was a bit of a hike:

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There were lots of pictures, some of which (according to Grandpa Ron and Tristan, respectively) portrayed a bicycle and an alien with a ray gun.

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Next day, we had to move. Of course, the moment we packed the car, we found a really pretty, interesting little beach just down the street in the other direction that we hadn't known was there. Mom was sad.

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SEA SLUGS! WOOOO!!

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Bye-bye, house!

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Here's part of our NEW house:

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Today, we went to a beach down a big hill (good to know where we are, eh?)

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The path was very long. And steep.

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I made this!

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We stopped at a beautiful (and REALLY windy) 600-year-old village on the shore.

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We also stopped for lunch in a town with a shop with a bathroom that had a toilet that looked like this:

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And passed a sign (not the first) that looked like this:

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And that was it! Pictures of our ridiculous new house to follow!