Hawaiian vacation - Day 2

I am back on the balcony after day 2 of our trip.   It is not as humid tonight, and Jen has joined me, enjoying a Pina Colada as I am enjoying a bit of my favorite French Vodka.  We’re talking about what we want to do the next few days and when to have some downtime as well.   Shannon came to join us for a bit, Daniel is asleep after our busy day.   It is sprinkling on and off, which makes a nice contrast to the sound of the ocean.   Pretty much everything shuts down at 10pm here, so it is very peaceful at night.   Even the other people who are out on their balconies are quiet – enjoying the same sounds we are.

The day started with Jen and I watching the sunrise.   Our Facebook friends got a look at some of the pictures we saw; later today I hope to get an online gallery up somewhere to share the pictures we are taking so look for a link in an upcoming blog entry.    We talked about how we are going pool our pictures and create an album to commemorate our 25 anniversary trip to Hawaii.

Today was kind of different.   We started with our obligatory meeting with the timeshare folks – I’m guessing it is the same with all timeshares that when you visit them they want to ‘update” you on what is new in their program.  OK, what they really want to do is sell you more points/time.   We upgraded 2 years ago and are happy with the level we are at.   By at least attending the meeting we get som e perks, and scored 2-for-1 prices on a couple of events we’ll be going on in a few days.  Stay tuned.

After that it was shopping.   Last night I went to the local Safeway and was shocked to see how high the prices were.  $7 for a gallon of milk?   $5 for a small container of pancake syrup?    Eggs were almost $1 each!     Well we found out where the CostCo is, and the WalMart (only one of each on Kauai) and found the prices much more reasonable.   Guess we are in the ‘tourist zone’ .   Gas is about $3.70, surprising lower than our recently-inflated $4.30 in Los Angeles.   Some sort of shortage pushed our prices up almost $1 in the last week.    After that we took the kids to Kealia Beach about 5 miles north of our resort.  The beach here is very scenic, but isn’t fit for swimming as there are a lot of rocks and a 3 foot shoreline.   They had a blast there for a while, when we returned we went to the pool at our resort before heading up to our room for dinner.  

I guess we were all pretty tired.   In fact I am finishing this entry on Saturday morning because I fell asleep on the balcony – Jen had to wake me up so I could climb into bed.   LOL

Saturday will be a big day, and my post may be a bit late because of it.   Trust me, it will be worth the wait. :)