The sun is coming up behind us, over the top of the mountains. Kayakers are paddling by. Ocaean seems fairly calm with intermittent wave crashing over the top of the rocks at the edge of the golf course very close to our lanai.
John is out running somewhere and I have my Kona coffee on the lanai. (Hawaii talk there.)
Here's a catch-up blog post.
We left at 4:45 from Honeywood for the airport and went EUG to SFO with no problem. Once in SFO and all loaded on the plane, it seemed that our pilot had car trouble and wasn't at the airport yet. (Guess that's better than the mechanic having car trouble.)Left about 45 minutes late and started the 5 hr flight to Hawaii. Of couse, the 3-gen family with two boys (3 & maybe 7) were right behind us and they perfected the art of seat-kicking. Big brother redeemed himself by reading to little brother. (Brady and Conrad) and he did the best job of keeping brother busy.
It's weird to land in Kona in jeans and a sweatshirt to 80+ degrees. I bet we all looked obviously winterized.
Through tag-team and strategically seating ourselves in the shuttle, I was first at the rental counter and we got our Toyota Rogue (same color as the Taurus) and began the drive to our condo. We're pretty close, actually, so with good directions, only one wrong turn and one phone all to managers' office, we found our place.
We have 1 bedroom, good size livingroom, lanai, two bathrooms. I'm guessing the living room couch folds out. We're on the ground floor so there is some tap-dancing on our heads, but I think I'd rather have that than climbing 3 flights of steps. I don't know if we could have a better view. Golfer watching (we're next to a tee) plus he ocean right there. Much better location and a bigger space than on Kauai. The decor is 70s with lots of cocoa brown and sea foam carpet, but who cares about that. There's also a deck off the bedroom with a view of the parking area, so we likely won't use that much.
The first night we drove through town, which looks like Seaside OR with lots of little gift shops, restaurants, equipment rental places. Then settled on birthday dinner a Drydales II in the nearest shopping center. I had a nice piece of ono (delicious Hawaiian fish. I hope it's not endangered or anything.)
We have found our Safeway and Long's Drugs and stocked up on food plus the stuff we forgot.
(Two outrigger canoes are going by right now)
Food prices are crazy and gas is around $4.60/gal. We also know where Costco is -- cheapest place on island to fill up.
The condo has an insulated cooler so we can pack lunches to take on adventures.
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