Aloha!! It went by in a blink. Although we missed our families, it wasn't too difficult to adjust to life in paradise. Ralph and I rented the "dream beach cottage", a small little house on Molokai's east end. It had a great deck and a private little beach with a great swimming area. We couldn't have dreamt up a better place to slow down and get to know our new little baby girl.
We had a fantastic time. We walked up the road from our house along the coast almost everyday, went on a couple good hikes, swam, explored the island, even played 9 holes of golf. Nora participated in her first 10K (via Ralph's man power and a stroller) and made the podium with her Dad bringing home a nice wooden bowl trophy. I ran too and took 1st place for women, won a trophy and 100 dollars!!!! I couldn't believe it, a definite funny surprise.
We met a nice man, Jim, who gave us a stroller, and a great guy, Dave who lent us surf boards and taught us how to stand up paddle board.
We met a woman, Debbie, that ran a little veggie delivery service. Each Saturday she would delivery an enormous box of organic fruits and veggies to the house. There was consistently a lot of basil, cilatro, banans and greens, but other than that you never knew what you were going to get. Everything on the island is super expensive (over 8 dollars for a gallon of milk or a quart of plain yogurt) so this was a super deal. 
Me, my trusty sneakers and my trophy 
Ralph and Nora on one of our many walks
Father, daughter surf check
Nora checking out the feeling of sand between her toes for the first time
Our new friend, Jim, took us on a spectacular hike in his back yard. He shuttled us up on a 4 wheeler as far as we could get then we hiked up further to enjoy a great view of the island, the ocean and neighboring Maui. The east side of the island, where we stayed, is really pretty wet and therefore very green and lush. 
This is phallic rock, you can't tell as well from the side view, but is was certainly named appropriately. It was in a really beautiful pine forest.
We hiked up to a really beautiful water fall with a friend we met, Bo. You hike through an incredibly lush, dense, exotic forest to get there; lots of big trees with crazy root systems, wonderful flowers, and no other people. It was definitely our idea of paradise.
