We had the morning shift at the Laie Hawaii Temple Visitors’ Center on Monday morning. About mid-morning I got a broadcast text message from the Honolulu Department of Emergency Management stating that the highway north and west of here was going to be closed because of dangerously high surf conditions. A couple of visitors to the Center commented how much water was coming up onto the road and how much debris was being pushed by the waves up onto the road in that area as they drove through. High tide was approaching which would mean the surf would get even further inland.

Nina and I has an assignment at the Polynesian Cultural Center at 4:30 to take tickets and greet guests at the Aloha Luau, so we left a little early and drove out to Laie Point to see what action was going on out there. I took four short video clips and stitched them together using iMovie in my Macbook then uploaded it to YouTube:

The video is about two and a half minutes long and definitely doesn’t do justice to the power and magnificence of the waves!

There is a surfing competition called “The Big Eddie” has been given the green alert for tomorrow (Thursday). This is a huge event which hasn’t been held for six years. If the surf holds there will be a gazillion people coming to the north shore to watch this event. The link has some additional interesting details.

We had a delightful time at the PCC taking tickets. We haven’t been there for a month as we’ve been keeping our time available for the Visitors’ Center with a new director and a new senior missionary couple. It turned out that we did need to be quite flexible with our schedule, but now that some time has passed and schedules at the Center have settled down, we were able to resume our once-weekly volunteering at the PCC. The Aloha Luau is the largest of the luau venues and was sold out on Monday afternoon with about 530 people having the dinner and the show.

From 3pm until 7pm in the evening we offer a tram tour from the PCC past BYU-Hawaii over to the Visitors’ Center where the guests can visit for about 15 minutes before going back to the PCC. From the Aloha Luau I can see the area where the sister missionaries are standing and inviting guests to take the tour. They’re the young ladies in the dark blue muu-muu’s in the photo.

We’ve been having some significantly cooler weather here in Laie which is going to continue for at least the next week. Unfortunately, that means that the over-zealous air conditioning at the Visitors’ Center will keep the place beyond cool. I’m happy that I brought a couple of sport coats with me! Otherwise, though, life continues to be quite amazing.

Ta ta for now!