Lazy Day

Since my dad hasn't been feeling well, we opted to have a lazy day. We still went to Wal-mart before lunch, a very Hawaiian excursion there. My dad got cough drops, Kimberly got coffee for a friend, and I got a Hawaiian shirt (as I'd recently had to kill one of my favorites because it was splitting at some of its seams).

After that lunch, some reading, an obligatory afternoon nap, and more reading.

To see a bit of genuine Hawaiian outside, Kimberly and I went for a walk before dinner. There's a coffee plantation nearby, and we walked down to that and along its border for a while. There were numerous nice views of the sea below which I enjoyed.

We finally got around to exchanging Christmas presents in the evening. Afterward, my dad and I watched the first episode of Star Trek: TOS. (We'd given him the first season.) That's _The Man Trap_, if you go by broadcast order, which is the-episode-with-the-salt-vampire. I was really surprised how well it's held up. I think sometime since I've last seen TOS, it went from being camp to being nicely iconic of its period.

This was also the remastered edition, and I wasn't expecting to like the new CGI they'd done, but they were pretty subtle and respectful of the original, so I actually thought it was well done (and the entire print held up on the huge tv here).

This may have been the first day I've ever been in Hawaii, other than travel days, that I did not swim. But I knew there would be less swimming due to Dad's illness, which is fine.

Overall, it felt exceedingly lazy, as there was much staying around the house, and exceedingly lazy is nice.

Swimming x2

Haven't had any more mosquito bites, and I think I know where I got the first ones. Down at Poipu Beach there's a bunch of standing water from a recent deluge--apparently because they're not allowed to drain storm water back into the ocean, so ... what do they do with it!? Let it sit and attract mosquitos. Good plan.

Well, my bites are mainly done itching, perhaps thanks in part to the anti-itch cream that Melody left when she was here a few weeks ago.

I of course noted the standing water (and avoided it) when Kimberly and I went back to Poipu this afternoon. I swam there for a while, mostly watching fish. Then we hiked up the shore to the Sheraton Beach and I swam there for a while, mainly riding waves. All, quite relaxing. And it was nice to stomp around our old stomping grounds from our first two trips to Hawaii. We did some reading aloud out at the beach too. White Night is going very quickly.

We were able to do some walking and reading off on our own because Mary had dropped us off, then picked us up when we were done. In the meantime they talked with prospective renters for their Maka house and it looks like came to a rental agreement, which is nice, since the house had been vacant for a month. So tomorrow I'm going to go out there with my dad (who is still dragging from a cold, in fact was worse today than previously) and help him load up stuff and hang some towel racks.

He suggested there may be swimming. I suspect otherwise, as I'm guessing he's going to be totally tuckered out after the Maka housing and I won't want to tire him out more by getting a ride to a beach.

So it goes in Hawaii.