Kauai, Dear! (Day 3)

Day 3 (Sunday, March 09, 2008)

I woke up at 6:30. (10:30 in my usual time zone… but actually 11:30 because of Daylight Savings Time.) I was quite proud of myself for getting all that rest and still waking up early. ;) Aunt Linda and Lynn know how to make some waffles, man! Blueberries AND chocolate chips. We had breakfast outside overlooking the valley and decided to drive to the north shore for some beach time.

So we spent the morning and early afternoon at Hanalei. I didn’t last long in the water because I’m a pansy and have no endurance and kept getting saltwater in my mouth and ears. But there’s no way I would have rather spent my first full day in Hawaii than soaking everything up on the beach and not touching a textbook. It was just what I needed – a lot of doing nothing.

The beach, where you do beachy things

These doves were all over us as soon as we broke out the graham crackers

By the time I started turning pink (yes, mom, I did use sunscreen) we were about ready to hit some shops in search of a snorkel to replace the one Aunt Linda lost a couple weeks ago when her kayak capsized. Not much luck with that, but I scrounged up some postcards. I spent “nap time” writing and addressing 16 of them.

We had dinner on the lanai and watched dusk settle over the mountains. The new moon had just begun to wax and it was still almost pitch black in the valley. Being the city girl that I am, I nearly put a crick in my neck staring at the stars, magnificently strewn across the black sky. Lynn got out the telescope and we took a peek at the moon.

Our last event of the day was a movie (with dark chocolate – woot!). I was pretty wiped out before the end of it so as you can imagine, I was off to bed pretty quick.