After the last few days of fun in the sun, we’ve all
acquired various degrees of sunburn. So
maybe today wasn’t such a bad idea…
The sunrise was quite breathtaking this morning, I set my camera on a 10-second timer to record it and it came out pretty well. Jen joined me today, maybe Shannon will tomorrow.
At around 8:30am we had finished breakfast and I was posting up my blog entries when I felt it getting a little damp on the balcony; a small mist had come in and really cooled things down. As I looked up the clouds opened and it started pouring rain. I grabbed my Surface tablet and went inside, and came back out with the camera. The next 20 minutes was a torrential downpour the likes of which I haven’t seen in years! As it ended we had a really nice rainbow stretching over a few miles from our property. Not long after that the sun was out and dried up all the rain (OK, I know that’s corny but you know the tune).
But we weren’t done with the rain just yet…
Jen had planned a few things we wanted to see in the northern part of the island, and a beach we were going to check out up there. About 11AM we got in the car and headed north while the cloud cover was minimal and the temperature about 85. 30 minutes later we approached our first destination – in another torrential downpour of rain! We went inside a shop and was talking with the owner; she told us it was going to be like this for a while as there was no wind to push the storm away. She also advised us to drive down to Kapaa, as it was supposed to be nice there. We smiled and said thank you; Kapaa is where we started from and where our resort is. LOL
So instead of frolicking on the beach of a very drenched north Kauai we headed back down south. We stopped for some shrimp at a local place we have wanted to try and got some Mexican food for Daniel and headed for the resort. After lunch we did the last of our shopping, and hung out at the pool for a couple of hours. I had been marinating some chicken all day, which I barbequed to perfection (if I do say so myself), and we had a nice dinner in tonight.
Only one thing would have made the night complete: Internet access. But for the second straight night we have none even though I have paid $50 for a week of higher-speed, multi device access! I’ve been on the phone (again!) with the properties Internet Service Provider to no avail. Apparently the entire property is down. Not happy. I can’t check my work Email, personal email, or even post this blog. I have an account on PhotoBucket (which took quite a bit of doing, apparently their site doesn’t like Windows 8.1, but does like the latest beta build of Windows 10) but can’t upload photos there. We are going through the data plan on our cell phones at a prodigious rate, maybe I should have spent the $50 to add more data to our plan this month instead of paying it to the resorts ISP….
The sunrise was quite breathtaking this morning, I set my camera on a 10-second timer to record it and it came out pretty well. Jen joined me today, maybe Shannon will tomorrow.
At around 8:30am we had finished breakfast and I was posting up my blog entries when I felt it getting a little damp on the balcony; a small mist had come in and really cooled things down. As I looked up the clouds opened and it started pouring rain. I grabbed my Surface tablet and went inside, and came back out with the camera. The next 20 minutes was a torrential downpour the likes of which I haven’t seen in years! As it ended we had a really nice rainbow stretching over a few miles from our property. Not long after that the sun was out and dried up all the rain (OK, I know that’s corny but you know the tune).
But we weren’t done with the rain just yet…
Jen had planned a few things we wanted to see in the northern part of the island, and a beach we were going to check out up there. About 11AM we got in the car and headed north while the cloud cover was minimal and the temperature about 85. 30 minutes later we approached our first destination – in another torrential downpour of rain! We went inside a shop and was talking with the owner; she told us it was going to be like this for a while as there was no wind to push the storm away. She also advised us to drive down to Kapaa, as it was supposed to be nice there. We smiled and said thank you; Kapaa is where we started from and where our resort is. LOL
So instead of frolicking on the beach of a very drenched north Kauai we headed back down south. We stopped for some shrimp at a local place we have wanted to try and got some Mexican food for Daniel and headed for the resort. After lunch we did the last of our shopping, and hung out at the pool for a couple of hours. I had been marinating some chicken all day, which I barbequed to perfection (if I do say so myself), and we had a nice dinner in tonight.
Only one thing would have made the night complete: Internet access. But for the second straight night we have none even though I have paid $50 for a week of higher-speed, multi device access! I’ve been on the phone (again!) with the properties Internet Service Provider to no avail. Apparently the entire property is down. Not happy. I can’t check my work Email, personal email, or even post this blog. I have an account on PhotoBucket (which took quite a bit of doing, apparently their site doesn’t like Windows 8.1, but does like the latest beta build of Windows 10) but can’t upload photos there. We are going through the data plan on our cell phones at a prodigious rate, maybe I should have spent the $50 to add more data to our plan this month instead of paying it to the resorts ISP….
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