We went to Kauai the week before Thanksgiving.  Mr. Poe has a timeshare there with his friend Sharon and usually I’m not allowed to go because I make them do too many things and disrupt their plans of sitting on the beach the entire time.  But this year, Sharon was going to Isreal with her Mom so I got to go and I brought my old friend Mr. Nick and his lovely wife Jess.  It was a really good idea and we all had a fabulous time.  The first full day we were there Mr. Nick and I left Mr. Poe and Jess on the beach and drove up to Waimea Canyon to do an epic hike to the Na Pali coast.  It was incredibly beautiful but a long and very difficult hike with something like a 2,500 foot climb at the end but it was totally worth it.  Check out the pics:

It’s kind of crazy that I haven’t been blogging for almost two months.  It’s partly because I haven’t been biking but mostly because I think Facebook has kind of taken over.  But cycling season is just around the corner and, based on encouragement from Mr. Poe who watches the director’s cut of ‘The Notebook’ a lot, I thought I’d better get caught up.  The weekend before Halloween Mr. Chris and David went to Hawaii so we had charge of Sofi and Tonisha.  Tonisha likes staying at our house because there’s a lot of excitement and there’s probably a little more snacking than she’s used to at home but Sofi always behaves like a business traveler who’s been downgraded from first class to the middle seat in the last row of coach–  disgruntled.  Here they are lounging:

Here’s all five of the dogs sitting around:

When Mr. Chris and David got back from Hawaii they brought me this classy hat which is my new favorite thing:

It’s always fun when the girls stay with us alothough nobody gets as much sleep as they’d like.