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Friday in Paradise……
Jul. 3rd, 2010 01:24 amI apparently needed some down time today.
We were out the door at 9 & at Boss Frogs at 9:30 to look at activity options. Not cheap, but enticing. We decided to discuss things over coffee. Four doors down is a French owned coffeehouse Café @ la Plage. We stopped there yesterday, their prices were better than Starbucks, and the quality as good, if not better. Both the men working the counter today were native French speakers, though I'm no longer proficient enough in the language to be able to place their accents. A chic woman in her early 30's with two young boys in tow, ordered as we eaves-dropped. She was a rather attractive creature, draped in a gauzy off the shoulder short tunic, her dirty blond hair tied up with a gauzy white scarf. The boys both had distinctly American accents, and when they got a bit rambunctious (as boys of 6-7 are prone to do), she turned and became rather stern with them, to which the older stiffened and replied,"oui, Maman." his face suddenly downcast.
We decided to take the submarine trip. However, given it was now past 10 all the trips for the day were booked. Instead, we'll catch tomorrows 10am sail (dive?) out of Lahaina. It will be almost $200 for the two of us, but as my husband often says, they're just pictures of dead presidents. Then I noticed they had a snorkel trip out to Lana'i. Lana'i, where we're more likely than not to swim with dolfins.
I gave in. We're doing something I said I was not going to do. We're going to spend 90 minutes at a time share presentation. That will get us the Lana'i trip free, plus it got us a $20 discount on the sub trip, and a $10 bottle of sunscreen for $5. When we get back to Lahaina after the sub trip, we'll stroll over to the Wyndham showroom nearby, listen to their shpiel, and get nearly $200 off what the two excursions would have cost us.
No, we have no intentions of buying a time share. But yeah, if it'll save us that amount of cash, I'm willing to sip coffee for 90 minutes and liste politely.
It was after 11 when we were done. I was surprisingly hungry, so we drove towards the beach, picked up some picnic fare & headed over to a picnic table near the water. We lunched & made calls, first to my mother & then my mother-in-law. My mother was happy to hear from me. My sister is in Istanbul presenting a paper at an ophthomology conference, & I'm here. Makes mom's head spin a bit. My youngest sister is leaving early tomorrow for a destination unknown. She turns 50 this week (now I feel old! She was still in grade school when I left home.) & her wish for her 50th was for my brother-in-law to surprise her with a trip somewhere for just the 2 of them. Even my mother had no idea where in the world they are headed for the week.
We came back to the room to put the left overs in the fridge, and one thing led to another; Starland Vocal Band came to my
mind. They may have been one hit wonders 35 years ago, but their one hit always leaves me smiling. For that matter so sis my husband.
After that I felt like I had hit the wall. I crashed. The combo of a bit too much sun the day before, all the swimming, the time change, the food and marital time was mire than I could handle. I was down for the count.
Late in the afternoon, we headed south the Makena's big beach. The sky became overcast, and while we were in the water, it began to rain. We stayed anyway. An hour in the water was rejuvenating. Then it was off to blockbusters to rent a flick, & head back to the room to cacoon for the evening. We got Avatar, something that despite wanting to see on the big screen, we both managed to miss catching.
All and all a good day.
Tomorrow coral reefs 100 feet below the surface, plus a shipwreck.
We were out the door at 9 & at Boss Frogs at 9:30 to look at activity options. Not cheap, but enticing. We decided to discuss things over coffee. Four doors down is a French owned coffeehouse Café @ la Plage. We stopped there yesterday, their prices were better than Starbucks, and the quality as good, if not better. Both the men working the counter today were native French speakers, though I'm no longer proficient enough in the language to be able to place their accents. A chic woman in her early 30's with two young boys in tow, ordered as we eaves-dropped. She was a rather attractive creature, draped in a gauzy off the shoulder short tunic, her dirty blond hair tied up with a gauzy white scarf. The boys both had distinctly American accents, and when they got a bit rambunctious (as boys of 6-7 are prone to do), she turned and became rather stern with them, to which the older stiffened and replied,"oui, Maman." his face suddenly downcast.
We decided to take the submarine trip. However, given it was now past 10 all the trips for the day were booked. Instead, we'll catch tomorrows 10am sail (dive?) out of Lahaina. It will be almost $200 for the two of us, but as my husband often says, they're just pictures of dead presidents. Then I noticed they had a snorkel trip out to Lana'i. Lana'i, where we're more likely than not to swim with dolfins.
I gave in. We're doing something I said I was not going to do. We're going to spend 90 minutes at a time share presentation. That will get us the Lana'i trip free, plus it got us a $20 discount on the sub trip, and a $10 bottle of sunscreen for $5. When we get back to Lahaina after the sub trip, we'll stroll over to the Wyndham showroom nearby, listen to their shpiel, and get nearly $200 off what the two excursions would have cost us.
No, we have no intentions of buying a time share. But yeah, if it'll save us that amount of cash, I'm willing to sip coffee for 90 minutes and liste politely.
It was after 11 when we were done. I was surprisingly hungry, so we drove towards the beach, picked up some picnic fare & headed over to a picnic table near the water. We lunched & made calls, first to my mother & then my mother-in-law. My mother was happy to hear from me. My sister is in Istanbul presenting a paper at an ophthomology conference, & I'm here. Makes mom's head spin a bit. My youngest sister is leaving early tomorrow for a destination unknown. She turns 50 this week (now I feel old! She was still in grade school when I left home.) & her wish for her 50th was for my brother-in-law to surprise her with a trip somewhere for just the 2 of them. Even my mother had no idea where in the world they are headed for the week.
We came back to the room to put the left overs in the fridge, and one thing led to another; Starland Vocal Band came to my
mind. They may have been one hit wonders 35 years ago, but their one hit always leaves me smiling. For that matter so sis my husband.
After that I felt like I had hit the wall. I crashed. The combo of a bit too much sun the day before, all the swimming, the time change, the food and marital time was mire than I could handle. I was down for the count.
Late in the afternoon, we headed south the Makena's big beach. The sky became overcast, and while we were in the water, it began to rain. We stayed anyway. An hour in the water was rejuvenating. Then it was off to blockbusters to rent a flick, & head back to the room to cacoon for the evening. We got Avatar, something that despite wanting to see on the big screen, we both managed to miss catching.
All and all a good day.
Tomorrow coral reefs 100 feet below the surface, plus a shipwreck.
