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An Old Friend

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Today we met an old friend of ours at Kiahuna beach. “V20” the monk seal was again laying lazily at the beach. Of course we went there to say hello, though he seemed not to recognize us. Probably asleep.



The rest of the day we spent reading, talking, Chie drinking some Mai Tai, playing in the water and just relaxing and enjoying our last day in Kaua’i… For this time 😎



We stayed at Kiahuna beach until 6 pm, enjoying the last rays of warm sun before we had to leave.



Before leaving we walked up to a newly married couple laying next to us on the beach. They would stay about 1 more week at Kaua’i so we gave them our sun chairs. Kind of to return the favor to the one that gave them to us. Pass it on 🙂

Then it was the last preparations before going back to Japan. $10 Kauai chocolate for Johan. $25 gas for the car. $X XXXX for a friend (the X:es are just in case the friend reads this ;-)). And then home for dinner and packing.

Poipu Beach… Again

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I am starting to get annoyed at the monk seals now. Today another one was stranded at Poipu Beach. Result? Half the beach was sealed off for him (guess it was a him from the size). No space for us humans 😉



And the ocean was full of sea turtles. At least we saw two turtles again. They seem to come in towards the beach to eat sea weed from the rocks, or whatever they eat.

And everywhere there are chickens (wild chickens). Today a cardinal visited too. And we gave him a piece of bred. He seemed very happy.



Too many animals. Cannot concentrate on reading so I had some chips instead.



At 5 pm we went home and had crab cream sauce past with salad for dinner. Yummy!

Moloa Bay & iPads

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From the title you may wonder what Moloa Bay has to do with iPads. Well, nothing. But if you bare with me I will explain 🙂

Moloa Bay has everything to do with what we did today. We went there in the morning and spent the whole day there.

It was a beautiful day. Sunny. A light breeze. Warm sand and water. Good book. Good company. Under coco nut palm trees (well, we did not spend the day in the shadow but it sounded good).



In the late afternoon we started on our way back home. First stop was Safeway in Kapa’a town, and the small shops around Safeway. We found a store that sold organic products like groceries and cosmetics. We memorized it plan to do most of our shopping here next year when we return.

Next stop was a Korean restaurant just south of Kapa’a town. We bought kalbi, with rice and kimchi to go. The kalbi was raw because our plan was to grill them by ourselves. It was tricky to get on the road again since the whole island of Kaua’i seems to be on the move at the same time. Two nice gentlemen (one in each car) let us cross over one lane and get in front in the other lane. Mahalo!

Our last stop (besides at home) was the Mac Made Easy store in Lihue. We checked in again if they had gotten the iPad Wi-Fi 64GB that they had promised. They had. I bought it 😈

When Chie saw what it could do (we are still in the shop) she wanted one too. She bought a Wi-Fi 32GB. The last one in the shop.



Back at home I grilled the kalbi and we had dinner. Then we started to play with Chie’s iPad. Mine have to be activated by syncing it with my iTunes before I can use it (we only have Chie’s MacBook with us). Oh boy is the iPad fun 😀

Kiahuna Day

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Second day in a row it is raining in Sunny Poipu :-O We spent the morning going to Lihue again to check the Mac Made Easy store. If they had an iPad. They had, but not the one I wanted 🙁

It feels like the Soup Nazi has turned into iPad Nazi and every time I sneak into a store to try to buy an iPad, he pops up and screams “NO iPAD FOR YOU!”.

We went back to (the not so) Sunny Poipu. And it was almost back to its normal sunny state. Well, it was still cloudy but it had stopped raining so we went to Kiahuna to play in the waves.

First stop in Kiahuna though, was not the sea but the restaurant at the hotel. We had a watery Caesar Salad and a cheese burger with fries.



After lunch we played in the waves. Which were quite big today. Its so much fun you almost does not feel when it is time to get out of the water (teeth rattling and lips blue just as when you were a kid).



In the evening I had a walk down to the ocean (2 minutes walk from Poipu Plantation). To take some photos.



When we cooked dinner it hit me again that Americans are a strange people. Much of their designs are quite rough and big and not so well thought through. As their stoves. How can someone think about putting the control nob on the back of the stove so that if your pasta water boils over you need to reach through the hot steam to turn down the heat?



Shopping Day in Lihue

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Rainy day = shopping day. Almost like clockwork there is one day out of 10-12 that is rainy when we stay in Kauai. This year as well. It was today. So we do as we always do, we went shopping.

Mostly gifts to bring to the office. Like Macadamia nut chocolate and Kauai Coffee. I always buy some books at Borders Book Shop. I found a pair of new bath shorts as well. Not at the book shop though 😉

One of the bath shorts I have is from when Chie and I went to Bali. About 7-8 years ago. It’s about time they got replaced.

Otherwise the most exciting thing that happened today was that we saw two small lizards hunting and killing a moth.

And then it was rain. And rain. And rain. It rained (cats & dogs – I went out and got soaked in 3 seconds) constantly from when we got back from a short visit at the Kiahuna beach after the shopping until when I am writing this at 7:30 pm.