If you get to go to Hawaii, and you go to the big island especially, there's certain areas in O'ahu its the same, but in the big island rain forest that it's got that smell that you get in leis that you put around your neck it's orchids and everything that's got a special smell when you go through that rain forest.

We drove through there. Your mother -- we rented a car. We went over there thanksgiving weekend with another couple that had a couple of kids. We had your mother and Debbie, her sister. We went over and stayed at the armed forces, on the mountain where the volcano is, around the top of the volcano, but just a little bit off where you could walk to where the volcano cone was. And they had an armed forces hotel there. That was the navy, air force, marines, and army I guess, those services. They all participated in it. Each one of them had their own deal. The air force I think was fire fighting and something else, the navy though was cook, they had the mess halls and all. So we ate thanksgiving dinner there.

But my story was, we rented a car, that couple did and we did, and we started going around the northern end of the island where the big volcano is. We took off, and as we went along your mother got car sick, dizzy and car sick. She had a miserable trip. But we'd already committed. And doggonit, I looked down and didn't have enough gas to get back to where we was supposed to come back to, the way I read it. And it was the thanksgiving weekend, so everything was closed down. And there's not too many stations anyway there. But we ended up about nightfall, it was almost dark, and I'd been looking and looking and we pass this little town. It was right there on the high way, and they had a service station, but it was closed. So they had a phone number on the door and all, so we called them, asked if they'd come down and give us gas, well they was closed on thanksgiving weekend. So we headed on around and we made it back to the hotel area. But I sweated that out. If it hadn't been that I'd probably never remember the trip [laughing], but I remember worrying about, here I've got my family with me and Linda's sick anyway, and it's dark, getting dark quickly and we're still a few miles from where we wanted to be for the night.

But it was interesting. They cooked rabbit for thanksgiving, one of the meats for thanksgiving. The cooks, I was talking to one of them, he said "yeah we got some rabbit over here," it came up in a conversation about what all they were serving. And I said, I don't know, the kids had never eaten rabbit. And so this other couple, I told the dad what was going on, and he goes, "well, let's let them try some." So we ordered a plate of rabbit. Of course, I'd eaten it when I was small. My uncle used to go out and kill squirrels and rabbits and everything for food. So they brought that tray out, and it looked very appetizing, sort of like chicken legs or something.

But they started, I think Linda started eating it, and another girl. And somehow the conversation, "well what is this?" So we told them it's rabbit. And boy, the other kids, Debbie and the boy that was with the other couple, they wouldn't try it. You know its .... you got your mental problems with never eating meat from rabbits, or squirrles or anything. But they had a big menu there that day and really fed us good.

But you could walk down and look into the volcano, the cone, and the smoke, and there was coals down there. You don't walk down in there because of the heat, no. It was really interesting. It erupts every once in a while, and on the north side of the volcano going down into the ocean, it does add -- the lava runs down and it's forming an extension on the island. It's growing. But not that quickly, a few feet a year or something.