Day 8 – School Is Over At 1:00 PM

Hawaii: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9

After a week, I am getting into this Hawaiian thing!

Dang, I made it to the buffet, and the Chief Omelet Maker, COM for short, greeted me with another of his specials.  This delight contained a generous amount of cream cheese!  I plan to hide the bathroom scales when we get home.  Maybe Scout will bury them for me.

Yummy!

The sky was magnificent this morning, especially with the help of AI.

I love those rainbows!

The water was still rough, and we heard the waves splash all night long, like being on a cruise ship!

Mu view at breakfast.

I plan to take Miss Mary on a tour of the buffet tomorrow as I spent quite a bit of time here and got to know everyone and their kids.

I made many laps around this fine counter.

I loaded up on pineapple and watermelon every time I passed by!

She was picked right off the market shelf.

How did I miss the salmon?  Tomorrow I will go here first.

I did not see this until today!!

They have fresh flowers every morning.  They were magnificent specimens of the local flowers.

Flowers everywhere.  Orchids were also in every flower bed.

The buffet was on a LARGE veranda, and the inside was perfect for the local birds to fly around and pick their targets for breakfast.  If you look carefully, you can see one of the little buggers flying around!  They are myna birds and quite noisy.

Like an aviary inside the room.

I mosied back to the room as I had forgotten my hearing aids.  My shoelace was loose, so I stopped for a few minutes in the lobby to tie it better.  As I got up to leave, I noticed the statue. Oh My!  This would look great in our front yard.

I had to stop and tie my shoes for about 30 minutes.

I strolled around the grand lobby for quite a while and finally decided to stop and have a mid-morning libation.

I saw this sign, immediately went inside, and ordered a Virgin Mary (it was too early for alcohol).

After sitting down and looking around,  I was sadly disappointed.  I thought the sign said, “Titty Bar!” not Tiki Bar!  Life is full of disappointments!

Next time, I will read the sign more carefully.

I must go to an eye doctor when I get home!  How could I have missed the spelling on the sign.  It reminded me of Connor when we were outside last week!

Damn, getting old is tough!

Mary was officially done at 1:00 pm, and we went to the local bar and celebrated!

We met a retired doctor who developed a large business and sold it and now lives in Orange County and Hawaii.  We spent almost three hours visiting him and his lady.   He lives across the street from the hotel and is a regular.  It was a super afternoon.

The dog’s name is “Bark,” and he is spoiled rotten, just like Scout!

We had reservations at HUMUHUMUNUKUNUKU.PUA’A, the signature restaurant at the hotel.  As we entered the restaurant, the surroundings were unique. Waterfalls and fishies, oh my!

The scenery was amazing.

Earlier in the day, we met a couple that seemed to be fun.  They had reservations for a special place in the restaurant that we couldn’t get, so I offered to pay for their dinner if we could sneak in and join them.

We started with a seafood stack; it could have been our entire dinner!

The Seafood Tower Royale had 15 Oysters, 8 Littlenecks, 4 Shrimp, Dungeness Crab Legs, Lobster Cocktail, ‘Ahi Poke, King Crab, 30g Daurenki Caviar.

The four of us did quite a bit of work, leaving only the shells and bones by the time we were done!

Our view from the table was fantastic.  The Sun was setting, and the lagoon adjacent to the table was like a mirror.

Not a single ripple was evident.

The new friends were really interesting, and they were attending the conference also but as an eye instrument provider.  They have two kids, and Mama is watching them back home in Calabasas, CA.

We gave them our business card and hope they call us so we can give them some pictures!

We also met a couple that just got engaged today, so dinner was on us.  They asked about the secret of a long marriage, and I told them my secret, “Say, Yes Mam!”

May you have a long and happy life together.

The Sun was on the water, so the torches are now lit up.  The island on the right is Lanai!

Truly magical!!

The six of us enjoyed a super meal!

A most happy group!

With a little AI assistance, we stepped outside into the sun and took another picture!

Aloha until we meet again!

We made it back to the room and crashed.  We were going to pack tonight but that plan did not work out!