isn't it ironic?

the six week mark rolled around yesterday when brandon was finally off on a saturday. we began making plans early in the week to go to kakelas and just relax the entire day there together...after all, EVERY DAY during this past week was sunny, humid, and blazing hot. we had no reason to believe that saturday's weather would turn out otherwise.

our saturday plans included activities that we love and rarely get to do: sleeping in, breakfast from hukilau cafe, packing up lunch from mcdonalds, and heading off to kakelas as a family. when we woke up at about 10:30am, i looked out the window and what did i see? clouds covering the previous day's blue sky and the coconut trees swaying from side to side from blustery winds. soooo not fair.

i tried to keep a positive attitude for the day - i mean, both of us were still free from our daily work duties and we had the entire day ahead of us to spend together. so on we trudged with our lazy saturday plans...picked up breakfast from our local hukilau cafe diner, put a load of laundry in the washer at my mom's, packed up a beach bag, slathered on some sunblock, went to mcdonalds drive thru for lunch later, and off we went to the beach!

when we got to kakela, we found a nice clear spot near a tree and set our things down on the sand. the waves were choppy, the wind was blowing, and the clouds were still out bringing down my mood. but we let ahonui run free and play in a sandhill right in front of us while brandon & i ate our double cheeseburgers. the day improved as we swam with our boy in the ocean, dried off on our lavalavas, and watched the little guy shove a taro pie into his mouth.
i was just thinking...isn't it ironic that when you finally have the opportunity to enjoy a day of fun outdoors, the clouds come along to rain on your parade? we'll be praying that in six weeks from now, the sun will be shining and the ocean will be a little more accomodating for the little family that has such little time to spend there.