Woke up around 6 am today and decide that I was done with Kauai. I just don't love it, you know? It's beautiful, don't get me wrong. But so is Jamaica and I don't love that either. A place has to have the "full package" or it doesn't go on my list. The weather here has been equivocal (never really rainy, but never really sunny except off and on) and the people have just really gotten under my skin. And I guess I'm not in the mood to be forgiving since so many other places have been so great in our travels. Sad, but I guess when you have limited vacation time and resources, its one strike and you're out.
Technically, today is our check in day on Maui, but since we had never been to Kauai before and our 5th night here was free, we decided to delay our arrival in Maui until tomorrow (Sunday). But, as I said, I woke up regretting that and called Hawaiian airlines to see if we could change our flight to get out of here today. Nope. Only one flight a day and the one today was taking off in an hour. Bummer. But in the scheme of things I guess I can't complain about the utter punishment of being stuck on Kauai for 24 hours longer than I'd wish. That would just be silly.
Had the breakfast splurge at the hotel's buffet. Connor pigged out on all kinds of bacon and eggs and then threw a fit when we left and he noticed he could have had Frosted Flakes! I had macadamia nut waffles with coconut syrup. Sickeningly delicious.
Bob headed over to the Prince course for a round of golf at 8:30am. He ended up shooting a 72 but said that some of the Robert Trent Jones designed holes were really tough. Sadly, one of the things that most delighted him was the fact that they cleaned his shoes for him. They were covered in red Kauai mud.
Connor and I drove to Opaka'a Falls--a beautiful waterfall that does not require a hike. We drove down to Waulua and stopped at a Long's Drugs because I lost my only lipstick. We picked up some cute magnets there and I got the coolest Japanese cosmetic item--polymer face blotting "papers"--but they're not paper, they're polymer. They work great. I need to get more before we go home.
On the way up to the falls we drove by an ancient Hawaiian heiau (temple) site. Local modern-day native Hawaiians (I assume) have posted hand painted signs that say KAPU (forbidden) on the rocks. I guess some idiot tourists either climb on them or take them. It was an eerie place. There are 7 of them leading the way from the coast up to the summit of Mt. Waialeale-the wettest spot on EARTH with an average of 406 inches of rainfall a year.
The falls were beautiful. Someone's home is literally on the top of them--too cool. I have no photos of them because I left the camera disk in the flashdrive attached to the crashed PC.
Drove back and stopped at an arcade for a quick play. Connor told me that he "loves me so much for letting him play". Forget Hawaii, the stinky arcade made his day!
Had another nice afternoon at the pool. Connor is officially a swimmer now. Jumping into water over his head without hesitation. Life jacket is pretty much off. This means no peace for mommy or daddy, though. With the life jacket we could sit on some lounge chairs and watch him. Without it, we 've got to be on top of him. That's okay--he's doing great.
Cleaned up and headed into Hanalei for our last Kauai dinner. Went to Kalypso's against the concierge's advice (she said everything was greasy) because it looked fun and kid friendly. Glad we did. I had some great mahi mahi fish tacos (not Wahoos-Laguna Beach good, but good) and the boys enjoyed their stuff, too. And we were greeted like they gave a crap we were there, the server introduced herself, and everyone was friendly. Ahhhhh.
Technically, today is our check in day on Maui, but since we had never been to Kauai before and our 5th night here was free, we decided to delay our arrival in Maui until tomorrow (Sunday). But, as I said, I woke up regretting that and called Hawaiian airlines to see if we could change our flight to get out of here today. Nope. Only one flight a day and the one today was taking off in an hour. Bummer. But in the scheme of things I guess I can't complain about the utter punishment of being stuck on Kauai for 24 hours longer than I'd wish. That would just be silly.
Had the breakfast splurge at the hotel's buffet. Connor pigged out on all kinds of bacon and eggs and then threw a fit when we left and he noticed he could have had Frosted Flakes! I had macadamia nut waffles with coconut syrup. Sickeningly delicious.
Bob headed over to the Prince course for a round of golf at 8:30am. He ended up shooting a 72 but said that some of the Robert Trent Jones designed holes were really tough. Sadly, one of the things that most delighted him was the fact that they cleaned his shoes for him. They were covered in red Kauai mud.
Connor and I drove to Opaka'a Falls--a beautiful waterfall that does not require a hike. We drove down to Waulua and stopped at a Long's Drugs because I lost my only lipstick. We picked up some cute magnets there and I got the coolest Japanese cosmetic item--polymer face blotting "papers"--but they're not paper, they're polymer. They work great. I need to get more before we go home.
On the way up to the falls we drove by an ancient Hawaiian heiau (temple) site. Local modern-day native Hawaiians (I assume) have posted hand painted signs that say KAPU (forbidden) on the rocks. I guess some idiot tourists either climb on them or take them. It was an eerie place. There are 7 of them leading the way from the coast up to the summit of Mt. Waialeale-the wettest spot on EARTH with an average of 406 inches of rainfall a year.
The falls were beautiful. Someone's home is literally on the top of them--too cool. I have no photos of them because I left the camera disk in the flashdrive attached to the crashed PC.
Drove back and stopped at an arcade for a quick play. Connor told me that he "loves me so much for letting him play". Forget Hawaii, the stinky arcade made his day!
Had another nice afternoon at the pool. Connor is officially a swimmer now. Jumping into water over his head without hesitation. Life jacket is pretty much off. This means no peace for mommy or daddy, though. With the life jacket we could sit on some lounge chairs and watch him. Without it, we 've got to be on top of him. That's okay--he's doing great.
Cleaned up and headed into Hanalei for our last Kauai dinner. Went to Kalypso's against the concierge's advice (she said everything was greasy) because it looked fun and kid friendly. Glad we did. I had some great mahi mahi fish tacos (not Wahoos-Laguna Beach good, but good) and the boys enjoyed their stuff, too. And we were greeted like they gave a crap we were there, the server introduced herself, and everyone was friendly. Ahhhhh.
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