A really unusual day on Kauai. Cloudy all over. The whole day. So we did not get to the beach. Instead we went to Hanelei for the May Day by the Bay festival.

When we arrived in Hanelei we could not locate the festival. We went to the right place but there were just no people there. Maybe because it basically poured down every 15 minutes or so. Or maybe we were at the wrong place?

It did not matter much since both Chie and I had a fun time walking around in Hanelei. Trying to hide from the rain every 15 minutes or so 😉

After a while we returned to Poipu, just stopping briefly in Koloa town to fill up the car. And at the Kukul’ula shopping village. We checked the Living Food Market where I found Kauai made chocolate for the amazing prize of $10 per bar 😯 More than Chie’s flip-flops that she bought in the surf shop next door.

Before returning home we had a Mai Tai and a Lemonade, along with taco chips and ‘home made’ salsas at a bar. The salsa was delicious.

At home we prepared pizza. Frozen. But we add fresh tomatoes, olives, capers, leftover pasta sauce and parmesan cheese. And some fresh basil that we got from Poipu Plantation Resort (they usually give away things they grow in the garden, like the basil, mango, and oranges). The basil was really tasty and you can see it between the bottles in the picture below.

After the dinner we turned on the TV and accidentally ended up on a channel with a travel program about Sweden. We saw some glimpses on Wasa (the biggest engineering failure Sweden has ever seen except maybe for the Hallandsåsen). Then some glimses of Skansen before the show ended with some guy sitting on a wooden pier in front of some typical red Swedish fisherman huts.

Now we have also almost finished packing all our things. Tomorrow we are returning to Tokyo. But we will be back in Kauai next year again, if not earlier 🙂