Sleeping Giant
Here you see, in the distance, a mountain that overlooks our hotel. Or, more accurately, oversleeps our hotel. It's called the Sleeping Giant because it just lies there doing what you see, every day. Today's page is made up of bits and scraps, given that all of our photography from yesterday, so carefully downloaded, was then gobbled up by the Menehunes, an evil dwarf-like people driven off the islands hundreds of years ago because apparently nobody liked them. Today, just like former CRC employees, they are blamed for everything that goes wrong.
Kauai Beachboy Hotel
In case you don't remember, the Kauai Beachboy Hotel is our home away from home. Please note the absence of sleet, sheet ice or snow anywhere. From this vantage, you are looking at the hotel drive-through. "Yes, I'll have two fresh hand towels, a large order of fries, and super-size it, please." All orders come with wet wipes and a Buzz Lightyear.
Photo Filler
Without our touring photos, we are reduced to snapping pictures of each other lying around. Here, Liz lies on the sofa, wondering why we are spending our time making a web page when we could be boogie-boarding or searching for illegal dope farms up in the mountains.
Coconut Marketplace
This wondrous device is the official international Wheel Of Commerce and, according to the locals, keeps the world turning. It's located at the Coconut Marketplace, a nifty shopping area adjacent to the Beachboy where one can purchase paintings of whale tails, a wide assortment of household goods crafted from nuts, unlimited tee-shirts, and yes, Mary, plenty of hula girls on those little plastic bases that you press up and she falls over.
Flower from yesterday
Hibiscus, we believe. (Lou Ann, is this a Hibiscus?) While Mike was taking this photo, a herd of chickens was lined up behind him, staring. Liz was lined up behind the chickens, taking a picture of the chickens staring at Mike taking a picture of the Hibiscus.
Local conveyance
The island of Kauai is very small, and so not much horse-power is required to get from place to place. Here, everyone drives John Deere rider mowers. Being an industrious lot, they can get where they're going and pick up sticks at the same time. This fellow is the Mayor of Kapa'a. We're having dinner with him later.Now it's time to go to the Kauai Museum, where we plan to steep ourselves in island lore and learn how to make luggage out of banana leaves. If you're not totally sick of this by now, you can see what we did on DAY 6.