This coming August, Prairie and I will be heading to Hawaii for a week for her sister Hope’s wedding. We’re really looking forward to the trip — three nights at the Hilton Waikoloa Village with the rest of the family for the wedding and associated events, and three nights camping at Volcanoes National Park — and so we’ve been working on planning ahead and picking up what supplies we’ll need well ahead of time.

This morning, we picked up a couple sets of fins, masks, and snorkels, as part of the hotel we’ll be at is the lagoon (“Teeming with tropical fish and rare green sea turtles, the four-acre ocean fed lagoon is a protected oasis perfect for snorkeling and swimming.”), and as neither of us have ever snorkeled before, we wanted to get some practice time in before hand.

We hit the pool for a while this afternoon (it is so nice having a pool available on hot days), and got to play with our new snorkel stuff. So far, so good — we probably looked like dorks, but we were having a lot of fun. I am going to figure out what to do about my face fuzz, though…the mustache breaks the seal on the face mask, so I’m either going to have to shave it or experiment with finding ways to make it work (some websites have suggested chap stick, vaseline, or some such greasy goo in the ‘stache to help keep the seal).

So now we’ve got flippers. Apparently, this makes Prairie a mermaid…and me a frog. I don’t know, I just report what I’m told…. ;)

[See also: Aloha! | Boy in the Pool | I like summer (and happy 4th of July!) | Best AP Retraction Ever | Another one bites the dust ]

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