Hawaii, Day the First
Jan. 27th, 2010 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shannon_aAh, a nice relaxing day in Hawaii after the stress leading up to it. This is our fourth visit to Kauai and our second visit since my dad and Mary moved here, so it's become a very familiar, even familial place. K. and I are never particularly drawn to the constant-required-movement of consumer-tourism, but becoming so familiar with this place, we're even more likely to laze around.
Which isn't to say that we stayed home today, as we didn't. Instead we made an unscheduled trip out to Lihue. Mary, who left for Taiwan this morning, had her four jars of cold cream rejected by the TSA, because, heavens! she might do something dangerous with it--no, wait, there's no chance that she could, nor that the original "bathroom bomber" could have actually made anything dangerous out of liquids, but it's important to have SECURITY THEATRE make us feel safe by terrifying us. In any case, we went out to Lihue to pick up the cold cream.
After that, I got my first swim in the ocean, on a beach east of Lihue by some hotel or another. It was a very sandy beach, and thus one K. would have felt more comfortable at, except she's decided not to swim on this trip. But my dad and I swam out in the waters for a while before coming in. (And I marked its sandiness and quietness in my mind for when K. does decide to swim again on some future trip.)
Afterward, we had to decide what to do for lunch, and I suggested a Tropical Burger place in Poipu, mainly for the nolstalgic value. When K. and I were here the first time, in 2001, we mostly ate out, but at the cheaper places, so Poipu Burger was a favorite. Now, I've stopped eating beef since then, but they still had a great selection of other things. I had a tasty chicken breast with avocado and other stuff with fries. The fries tasted exactly as I remembered them, and they brought me back to that first Halloween trip, a bit more than eight years ago.
There was some napping all around when we got home. Then, Dad cooked dinner, which is always a luxury here since K. and I don't really cook and we spent most of the evening talking.
A pleasant, relaxing day. I'm still feeling a bit tight, but it's slowly subsiding.
Now off to read for about 30 minutes, then I'll get off to bed, so I can wake up shortly after 7, with the sun.
Which isn't to say that we stayed home today, as we didn't. Instead we made an unscheduled trip out to Lihue. Mary, who left for Taiwan this morning, had her four jars of cold cream rejected by the TSA, because, heavens! she might do something dangerous with it--no, wait, there's no chance that she could, nor that the original "bathroom bomber" could have actually made anything dangerous out of liquids, but it's important to have SECURITY THEATRE make us feel safe by terrifying us. In any case, we went out to Lihue to pick up the cold cream.
After that, I got my first swim in the ocean, on a beach east of Lihue by some hotel or another. It was a very sandy beach, and thus one K. would have felt more comfortable at, except she's decided not to swim on this trip. But my dad and I swam out in the waters for a while before coming in. (And I marked its sandiness and quietness in my mind for when K. does decide to swim again on some future trip.)
Afterward, we had to decide what to do for lunch, and I suggested a Tropical Burger place in Poipu, mainly for the nolstalgic value. When K. and I were here the first time, in 2001, we mostly ate out, but at the cheaper places, so Poipu Burger was a favorite. Now, I've stopped eating beef since then, but they still had a great selection of other things. I had a tasty chicken breast with avocado and other stuff with fries. The fries tasted exactly as I remembered them, and they brought me back to that first Halloween trip, a bit more than eight years ago.
There was some napping all around when we got home. Then, Dad cooked dinner, which is always a luxury here since K. and I don't really cook and we spent most of the evening talking.
A pleasant, relaxing day. I'm still feeling a bit tight, but it's slowly subsiding.
Now off to read for about 30 minutes, then I'll get off to bed, so I can wake up shortly after 7, with the sun.