Sleeve

Since I've talked about wearing a sleeve when I fly, I've decided to show you how I put it on:

Step one - take the white, slippery sleeve and put it on my arm

Step 2 - Pull the sleeve on over the slippery one

Step 3 - Use the pink glove to help slide the sleeve all the way up and get all of the wrinkles out

Step 4 - Attach the green loop on the end of the slippery sleeve, over a door knob
and pull it off

Step 5 - Put on the compression glove

Ta da!!

Aloha 7

Sunday was our last day in Kona. We had breakfast at the hotel, as usual.


We had packed the night before, so we wandered around the hotel grounds. The eating area is a deck that overlooks the bay. During the day the tide fills up this area and it is full of beautiful fish and turtles - so we watched those for awhile.

This was some kind of floating platform with chairs and shade & water toys

Then we walked through the gardens. We saw some beautiful flowers and cool birds! I realize that I am wearing a different top than in the breakfast picture. The bird walk was a different day from the flower walk. :)


That is how we spent the morning. Then we changed for Sacrament meeting and checked out of our room.
The church is right by the temple - so we had no problem finding it. It was a nice meeting. We changed our clothes and stuffed things in the trunk so we could go wander the down-town area until our flight left.

One Sunday a month, the town closes off the street and they have a street fair. We happened to be there on the right Sunday. It was really fun. We found a perfect parking place that was right off of the walking street.

There were booths of jewelry, clothes, lots of food, art etc.

Right behind Kent's head is a dunking booth.

There were some entertainers

We bought some delicious shaved ice - which was great because it was pretty hot and humid walking around.

This guy was making hats!

Kent's favorite part was this old church

It took about 15 minutes to drive to the airport and drop off the car. Then we just hung out at the airport. The nice thing about airports in Hawaii - they are open-air! :) There was a gymnastic group going to a competition and they were practicing while we all waited - kind of fun entertainment.

This airport didn't have one of those "x-ray" machines so, of course, I got pulled aside for a pat-down. :(
Our first flight was about 40 minutes long - just back to Honolulu. Shortly after we were in the air, I realized I hadn't put my sleeve on - so I did it right then on the plane. I don't seem to have suffered any ill affects from forgetting!

Since we had more time to wait once we landed in Honolulu - we had dinner there. The flight didn't leave until 10:00 pm. The second I got on the plane I took an Ambien and slept for most of the trip - it was great!!
Boy it was cold getting to our car, but we arrived home safe, sound, and warm! :)

Aloha!

Aloha 6

So, when I woke up on day 6 and actually looked out our balcony - this was our view at the hotel:



We had breakfast in the dining area, which was all open to the views and smells of the ocean. Other than chasing little birds away from our food, it was fantastic! :)

We took a little drive to see what we might find for lunch and stopped at an overlook. I didn't take pictures of the view but of some critters on a bush:

Critter 1- Gecko

Critter 2 - potential lunch for Gecko

If it had been really stormy, I would have been worried about where we were staying~

This is the place where we wanted to have lunch. We even picked out the item on a menu.

Unfortunately, when we went back at lunch time, the market was all cleaned up! So, we ate at Subway. We then did some grocery shopping for Sunday lunch where I saw these cute little birds. [not in the store. ;)]

We also hit another WalMart. Why the fascination with WalMart? We needed to find something that we could scrape snow off our car with. AFTER we arrived at the Salt Lake airport to fly to balmy Hawaii, we realized we didn't have a snow scraper in our car. "What if it snows and freezes here, while we're there?", we thought. Kent started to ask someone for a snow scraper, but just couldn't bring himself to do it [for obvious reasons!] So this is what we got instead:

It worked great! ;)

We also took a walk around the Kona temple. We thought we saw a mongoose running around the grounds, but we weren't fast enough to get a picture.

When we returned to our hotel, there was a big event going on. It happens once a year and we happened to be there for it. On the grounds of the hotel they set up booths selling food and all sorts of other things. They also had a stage where they had many hula groups performing. Here's one of the groups:

After watching for a bit, we went exploring out on the lava beach. There are several pre-Christian temples there.

This is an altar of one temple. It actually had offerings on it later in the festivities.

Life in the bay

My fishing habbibi

They had a smaller stage with live entertainment.

This guy was juggling to the music

As the sun began to go down we went and sat on some lounge chairs and read for a bit. These people were trying to chase a turtle back out to sea - they were successful!



This little guy caught a beautiful little fish in his net and tried to convince his dad to let him keep it as a pet.


That evening we had dinner in the Veranda Lounge at the hotel.


They had a live band and people were dancing - sorry I didn't get any pictures! :(
Another perfect day!