Thursday, January 21. Cooler in the am.
Today is the day that the condo is scheduled for a minor baseboard and crevice treatment by the local exterminator. We had to be out by 9:00 am and we were. We took the car and chairs etc down to Keawakapu beach down the road a mile. There was hardly a car at the lot so off we went with all our chairs, hats, water, etc. We had the beach to ourselves at that time of the day.
This is the beach that cousins Peg and Gord used to come down to daily when they were staying at the resort just above. I remember frolicking in the water with Gord and Jim Cutler as Gail and Fellette chatted with Peg sitting on the beach. It seems a lifetime ago but was only about 7 [?] years ago maybe.
We set up our camp and hiked the length of the beach to the front of the hotel in front of Maui Hill, where we stay. A coolish wind was blowing today and the surf was pounding, often rather threatening. Back to our base camp on the beach and some light reading for a while and then a bracing dip, the water seemed cooler and the wind did its job in cooling us off. Shorty, back to the condo, now freshly sprayed.
We had a relaxing afternoon and got cleaned up and went to dinner at the Five Palms, below our resort. This is a tradition with us and have some great memories with friends and family there, Fellette gets to put on a Muumuu and I clean up a bit. Best dressed folks in the place tonight! We must try to keep the standards up!
We had a relaxing afternoon and got cleaned up and went to dinner at the Five Palms, below our resort. This is a tradition with us and have some great memories with friends and family there, Fellette gets to put on a Muumuu and I clean up a bit. Best dressed folks in the place tonight! We must try to keep the standards up!
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We were staying at Maui Hill when 9-11 happened, with Alicia, who was four and Auntie Myra. As a matter of fact we were staying in the unit above us when we got a call from Wally at 5:00 am telling us to turn on the TV. It was a spooky week without any planes coming or going but we did get home.
Also during that trip our mother had a collapse as well, she had cancer and passed away some time after. We had also finished building the log cabin at 100 Mile the week before we came here and were physically exhausted.
Memories...
Some beach eh? Once when we were here there was not a grain of sand, only lava. A heavy storm had taken all the sand away in one night. It takes days and days and weeks to gradually rebuild it with the sloshing of the waves. I remember we came down, as today, with all our stuff and was speechless when I saw the beach, I could not believe it.
Set for the morning, chairs compliments of Wally and Katrina.
They sling on your back and look like an Army Flamethrower Backpack, all the rage here right now. Tommy Bahamas.
Red hot Mama Glasses. On the beach this AM.
We left them on the rock where we found them
A lumberjack, Maui style. He has all the logger's apparatus and climbing spars etc., but only takes a machete up with with him.
My much younger wife, dressed for dinner.
Her older husband, not ready for dinner as he still has his slippers on!
My bride, ready for dinner.
Inside the restaurant.
The sunset tonight.
Two years ago today, on a different Island, Easter Island to be exact.
We sure cannot complain about lack of adventure in our life, that's for sure.
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