Tuesday love and harvest moon

Heidi Ho and welcome to another terrific Tuesday!  I introduce it like that because I feel bad for Tuesday...it gets no love.  Monday is hated so it's like that friend or family member that thrives on good or bad attention.  Wednesday is Hump Day and brings people a sense of relief being on the horizon.  Then there's Almost Friday. (aka- Thursday) Finally, Friday.

So Tuesday, I'm showing you some love.

Did you see the Harvest Moon last night?  In case you didn't, here, I took a crappy picture of it for you.

I got to drive by the light of the Harvest Moon to drop off my car at the dealer to get a recall fixed.  I swear if I'd known these cars would be in and out of the dealership so often, I would've gotten the old early 2000's Jag with that sweet chrome grill on the front.  At least you know up front to expect lots of dealer time from what I've heard.  Yeesh.

But seeing this moon also reminded me of our second trip to Hawaii back in 1999.  It was our first trip to the Big Island and we were jacked up to see some lava.  We knew it was flowing and seeing even a speck of it was high on our bucket list.  So we left Kona at 2am to make the drive to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.  It was pitch black on the roads because most of the route there didn't have street lights so we only had the light of a bright moon like that one to guide us.  We filmed one part of the journey with the moon and Salt and Pepa's "Let's Talk About Sex " (affiliate link) was our soundtrack.  Sex was the last thing on our minds.  When we got there, we started heading down Chain of Craters Road toward the lava field by the coast.  As we rounded the last big corner heading down, the sky was this beautiful orange-dusky plum color reflected in the sky over Pu'u O'o crater.  By the time we got down to the lava field, the full moon turned on and off between black clouds so we needed our own flashlights.  We didn't get to see full on flows for 2 more years but we did see a little speck of hot orange at the top of the pali (cliff.)  We stayed and watched the sun rise and more people poured in but there was nothing like being alone in the lava field in the middle of the night watching the fire goddess, Pele do her stuff.  When we saw it from outside the park two years later, we were in the flow field for almost three hours and no one was around us.  We were very careful as a couple's van was stranded between flows for not being smart.  We were amazed that it smelled like finger paint.  You definitely can't dip your finger in no matter how much you're tempted.  But any time I see a full moon like that, I start singing "Let's Talk About Sex" in my head and think of that two hour drive to Volcano.

Sorry, I couldn't help but wax nostalgic a bit.

We did TRX and free weights hybrid workout last night.  Dinner was coconut shrimp over thai lime rice and asparagus.

We are not happy with the lack of coconut on Trader Joe's coconut shrimp lately.  I'm beginning to wonder if I should just make my own with their regular shrimp.  Sigh.

I made another version of quiche for us to have with breakfast over the next few days.  I'm looking forward to it.  Yum!

I was also glad to see my Halloween stuff at the shop is selling because it means there are other Fall fanatics like me out there who are thinking ahead!  :)

Have you ever seen lava?  What did you have for breakfast this morning?

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