Here are the players for the reunion in order of arrival. Margaret and John arrived 12/28/03, as did Peter, Andrea who took these portraits, Elisabeth, Jonathan, and Matthew. The rest arrived on 12/29/03: Stratton, Joseph, and Daniel; then David and Anette and also Christopher and Shawn. All are Jaquettes except Shawn White. Sarah and husband Jimmy Ray were in England. We all stayed at Mauna Loa Village in Keauhou, Kona, hosted by the patriarch and matriarch. Each family had a condominium as home base.

There are about 150 pictures for this reunion web page covering everyone's stay on Hawaii. If you just want to look at the pictures, you can see them all as a slide show with short identifying titles. Old browsers (IE 4 and Netscape 4) may not work. Otherwise, read on. These pictures are organized, with short text to set the stage, roughly by day - when everyone did about the same thing that day - but otherwise by daily sequence Stratton and family followed. The weather for the entire time was 'doubtful', there being a Kona weather pattern bringing clouds, overcast, and showers to all the Hawaiian Islands. In some places on some days it was gully washer rain, but we managed to avoid all the really heavy rain, except at Kilauea. You will see some of us getting rather wet; still it was warm, and a wonderful time was had by all.

Before everyone else arrived in Kona, Jonathan interviewed grandma and grandpa as part of a school project while others lounged by the pool.

On our first full day together, we all took off from Mauna Kea Village for Kailua. We began at the condominium's garage (here is Chris.) We did a guided walking tour of old Kailua, Kona, beginning by gathering at Princess Ruth's Hulihe'e "palace" (13 of us). Only after spending some time wandering around the palace getting organized did we get all 14 of us in the picture on the steps. Here we are chatting and organizing. After touring the palace, inside and out with our guide, we went along the waterfront, and on the way we got some shaved ice - Anette at the Scandinavian Shaved Ice shop. We ended up at Kamehameha I's house, right next to where Paul Allen bought the Thurston place. Donna, our guide, explained everything (to Jonathan, Stratton, & Daniel, but not Matthew here) with pictures and gave a very good tour. We gathered again for more pictures as a family group of 14. Here we all are with Donna, our guide. Here are more pictures (Chris, Dave, Shawn, Dan, Joe & Strat) in smaller groups (Strat, Dan, & Joe) overlooking (then Strat, Dan, Anette, Matthew, Chris, & Shawn) Kamehameha's house (Dan, Dave, Anette, Elisabeth {Matthew}, Shawn, Joseph, Stratton, Christopher, & Jonathan) prominently at the harbor. (It is really the heiau which is significant.) Here is a last shot, as we left the tour, of Kamehameha's house.

On 12/30/03, we were hosted by Margie and John for dinner at Teshiba's, a Japanese restaurant on the upper road. Here is the picture of all of us, which justifies having taken the tripod. Then you can see us by halves: those on the right side (Jonathan, Stratton, Daniel, Christopher, Shawn, John, & Anette) and on the left side (Elisabeth, {Anette's seat}, David, Joseph, Matthew, Margaret, & Andrea) of the table.

A nearly long day-excursion 12/31/03 took us to Hawi, near the northwest point of Hawaii Kohala mountain, stopping for a tour at Lapakahi State Historical Park by Maile Maile; since it was his birthday, she gave Stratton a lei she had made a few days before. Maile's tour showed us a special fisherman's rock (see if you can see all of Jonathan, Margaret, Matthew, Daniel, Elisabeth, John, Stratton, Joseph, and Andrea) and gave us instruction on life in Lapakahi. We were good students (Daniel, Stratton, Peter, & Maile). Here are last pictures of our guide Maile with Strat and with Margie. . From Lapakahi we saw whale tails and spouts.

At Hawi we had lunch and saw the 'other' statue of Kamehameha I near where he was born. Here we are at lunch in an old hotel: one table showing backs, and what faces (Daniel, Joseph, Margaret, John, & Matthew), then Strat at the other. Of course Daniel, Stratton, Joseph, and Jonathan could not resist the ice cream across the street. Then everyone wanted a picture with Kamehameha I's statue: Joseph, Margaret, & Daniel; Joseph, Stratton, & Daniel; then again with Matthew, Margaret, Daniel, & Joseph at the statue showing Kamehameha face on; Peter's clan (Andrea, Elisabeth, Jonathan, Matthew, & Peter); as we faced the rain in Hawi.

At the end of the road past Hawi is Pololu valley. We saw the cliffs on the north Kohala coast, and David, Chris, & Shawn hiked down to the valley and beach and a waterfall with David. Here we are at the end of the road as a group, where we the overlook gave a view up the coast.

We stopped at (showing Stratton, Joseph, Margaret, & Daniel) Hapuna beach state park on our way back (and revisited it again later) - here showing Margaret, Daniel, Joseph, & Stratton. It was a favorite place for swimming and body surfing, Daniel and Joseph shown backside here, but the waves varied a great deal in height over the week - from weak (shown) to great.

We had a good take-out Hawaiian dinner together on New Year's Eve, and in the end, nearly everyone went to bed before midnight. We did have a chance to celebrate birthdays for the two entering their 60th year. The birthday boy cut the cake, and birthday girl and boy wrapped up in what David and Anette gave him - a nice blanket.

Former neighbor and family friend John Moore arranged for an outrigger canoe ride for New Year's Day out of his Keauhou Canoe Club. We got there early New Year's Day, and he had reserved the double canoe, so nearly all of us could go on a trip up and down the Kona coast a bit, getting whipped into shape as paddlers. Those who stayed ashore took way too many pictures; yet no one took a camera onboard! First John Moore had to give us our paddling instruction, so on a handy wall we practiced how to paddle. All (11 of us) climbed aboard and waited until we were ready to start; finally we took off. After going up and down the coast a bit, looking at the bottom and the landscape, we returned to Keauhou bay and prepared to land the canoe: digging for shore and on final approach. (Chris and Shawn flirted while John Moore seemed to be doing all the work, pulling us backwards to shore.) Eventually we landed at the take-out point. Back on land, we were all wet - an exciting excursion completed.

There are petroglyphs on the Kona coast, and some of us went to at least one of the two places. We went to the petroglyphs and "King's Trail" in Waikoloa Village resort and the petroglyphs through the kiawe forest at Mauna Lani resort. At Waikoloa, here are Joseph & Daniel on the King's trail, overnight accommodations (primitive) with petroglyphs and Stratton, then him reposed with more petroglyphs, yet more with Joseph & Daniel, and Stratton 'running' down the King's trail. At Mauna Lani, we found more petroglyphs after going through the kiawe forest - here are samples, Andrea making a rubbing, a petroglyph Matthew & Elisabeth found, the enclosed field of petroglyphs with Andrea Matthew, & Elisabeth, one set in a ring of stones - yet ineffable, Daniel & Joseph at the petroglyph field, kiawe beans on the petroglyphs, and finally the field of petroglyphs in another view.

One evening, New Year's Day 2004, we all went to Hugo's in Kailua for entertainment (not so good but free) and dinner (very good but expensive). Here we are (John, Matthew, Elisabeth, Daniel, {Jonathan}, Joseph, Margaret, & Peter) enrapt by the dancing and singing or idling away (same grouping with Stratton in the back).

South of Kailua, we visited Captain Cook's monument (at least lookout to it) on Kealakekua Bay and walked through the National Park at Puuhonua o Honaunau (Place of Refuge). These were two places we saw the endangered turtles - another was swimming with them in Keauhou at Kahaluu beach park. Leaving there, we stopped at St. Benedict's Painted Church before heading south. In Kealakekua Bay, there are some heiau, we looked across (showing Matthew, Jonathan, Elisabeth, & Andrea) to Capt. Cook's monument, and saw a turtle on the beach. At Refuge (short for Puuhonua o Honaunau) near the water, Joseph and Daniel stood by a great heiau and Stratton stood in the entry to the great enclosure. Nearby the display of tikis was under reconstruction, here showing Daniel & Joseph across the canoe beach. Here is another look at the remodeling project; here Daniel peeks between 2 tikis. Turtles use the beaches in the Refuge too. Near there, here are Peter, Matthew, Jonathan, & Elisabeth with umbrella. There is an active display of carving canoes and new (replacement) tikis: the carver. Here is another rocky water's edge scene and one with Daniel and nearby one with Elisabeth. Leaving, or arriving if you take the other circular route, is St. Benedict's Painted Church, with Andrea, Jonathan, Matthew, & Elisabeth in this view.

Continuing south, we stopped at Ka Lae (South Point). Looking south from there, the waves wrap around the southern-most tip of Hawaii, with shallow beach on the east side and cliff to deep water on the west, and there is about 1300 miles of ocean due south to the next spot of land (Malden Island), although Fanning Island is only about 900 miles south-southwest by south. Here you see Daniel and Joseph at South Point. Stratton and Daniel also appear.

At Kilauea (Hawaii Volcanoes National Park), we got soaking wet but saw no active eruption, it being confined to Pu'u O'o and clouded (fogged) in. We did the usual tour of places, all in the rain and fog, including Kilauea Iki (remembering when we were all there in 1959), Devastation trail, Thurston lava tube, Kilauea caldera, the sulfur banks, Puaulu kipuka, and hikes here and there, but none which got us to a view of the eruption. At least some of us hiked out our first evening about 1-2 miles to Pu'u Huluhulu, from which there is a view to Pu'u O'o and evidence of the active eruption 8 miles farther out, but we saw only thick clouds; through our powerful binoculars so carefully carried out, this is what we didn't see. We tried to retrace the trail we took in November 1959 to see the (first phase of the) Kilauea Iki eruption, but an intervening earthquake closed the trail and road, so we ended up going down to the caldera floor where we didn't quite get lost (Peter & Stratton figuring it out) in the fog, Andrea didn't fall in, and across recent (1970's through 1980's) pahoehoe flows and then up to Byron Ledge where we had viewed the lava fountain. Here we are at a trail junction with Matthew, Peter, Andrea, Jonathan, & Elisabeth in umbrella and rain capes and getting wet (Joseph, Daniel & Stratton favor umbrellas) - then nearly all of us. From there, we went back the trail (Stratton, Jonathan, & barely Elisabeth), partly along the old (now closed) abandoned road (Daniel, Joseph & Stratton in the rain clouds), to Volcano House with wild orchids along side. Drives around the Kilauea caldera included Thurston lava tube (David & Anette) and (Elisabeth & Matthew) in the rain forest; Kilauea Iki overlook with Jonathan & Matthew in the rain onto the floor of the mostly-filled pit crater; on the Devastation Trail from the 1960 cinder cone to a parking lot with Hawaiian pheasant along the path; somewhere whatever this is; by Halemaumau; into the bird park (Kipuka) Puaulu (Elisabeth, Matthew, & Jonathan in the rain); and by the sulfur steam banks. We did go down Chain of Craters Road to see the most recent activity down to the ocean. The road is covered and closed (Daniel & Joseph) with no parking (really no parking - both with Joseph & Stratton), but we went up across the lava field into the heavy steam (Stratton & Joseph) and heavier steam (Daniel & Joseph). (Stratton visited there when it was flowing into the ocean in April 2000.) Somewhere in brighter weather new ferns grow in the pahoehoe. By the end of the day we were quite wet. Peter et al. and Stratton et al. had very nice dinners at Volcano House at adjacent tables and slightly overlapping times.

In the end, the weather turned warm and sunny, those who stayed later had beautiful sunsets, and we all flew out of Kona International Airport at Keahole, thence to home. We left on various days between 1/2/04 and 1/6/04, although Chris and Shawn went to Kauai for a while from Kona before returning to the mainland.