hot lava!

if i was smarter, i could figure out how to make Chef start singing Hot Lava when you open this page. oh well!

so yesterday they ran a picture of the RIVER OF LAVA in Royal Gardens subdivision (near Kalapana, already been lava-ed a few times, population 2), then told people not to come gawk at it. Yeah, right!!! as if. It was about a mile hike to this action, the bottom of the river. We encountered people who'd gone further upstream, but what we saw was so awesome we didn't bother. They told us we were at the best place for lava appreciation anyway.

I hung back a bit while the kids (Corinna, Ginger, and Matt) got All Up Innit with a couple of dudes that were cooking apples and hot dogs in the lava. They had cameras on long sticks, which I'm totally doing when/if I ever go in search of hot lava again.

This picture was in case that hill they're all standing on melted into the lava sea. Luckily, they all survived, but my sissy status is solid now.

The other kids have pix of rescuing my camera, which fell (ok, i dropped it) into a crack (in cold lava) and was a bee-yotch to get out! We had to break some rocks and get a little scraped up, but the camera lived to deliver you these pics. i was halfway hoping we wouldn't be able to retrieve it so I can get the Olympus underwater digital camera i'm in love with.

Then we went to the black sand beach. I don't miss Louisiana as much today. :)

Oh! and it's my 1 year anniversary in hawai'i today! woo! happy anniversary to me!