Why Damon's Missing from the Halloween Pictures

Poor guy. Damon had a business trip to HAWAII the week of Halloween. He spent his week in Kona on the island of Hawaii doing tests on the Wave Glider boat that his company makes.  It's an unmanned boat that is wave- and solar-powered. It goes around the ocean collecting all sorts of data. What you see below is just the above-water portion. There's also an underwater part that connects to the surface craft with an "umbilical." 

 

Here Damon's hanging off the side of a pier doing a test. He had to buy flip flops when he arrived and he came home with a nice tan line on the top of his foot.

 

It was a rough business trip, let me tell ya. One day some of the other guys didn't have their part of the project done, meaning Damon and his colleague had nothing to do. So, they went snorkeling.

Here's the rental car:

 

The hotel:

 

The wild turkey outside the hotel: (Okay, maybe that wasn't so luxurious--a little weird, even.)

 

Damon found this little guy on the patio at his hotel:

 

He's so tiny!

 

Damon got a real kick out of the airport and took several pictures for me.  The terminal was completely outdoors. Here's the entrance to security:

 

The gate:

 

Here he is waiting at the gate before flying home. He was just amazed that those planters were the only barrier between the gate and the tarmac.

 

We expect Damon to have more business trips to Hawaii in the future. I will DEFINITELY be joining him next time. I'm sure I could find plenty to do--or nothing to do (that sounds nice)--while he's working. If it hadn't been the week of Halloween and his parents hadn't been packing for their move, we totally would have bought me a ticket and left the kids with the grandparents on this trip.