The Election.

We are such nerds! We are in Hawaii but what we really wanted to do today was watch history.  It rained on and off all day long and to have ALL the doors open and listen to and watch the rain while watching the election.  Having 

A vacation from our vacation

Day Five and Six WERE THE BEST YET! Friday we ate breakfast (not my favorite meal but IAN LOVES the corned beef hash!) and then packed our bags to head to the other side of the Island. We had reservations to see a Luau.  I'm glad we did but but I could have lived with out it.  It was C H E E Z Y.  Ian asked me "What did you expect"? I guess I expected it to be a little less "Love Boat"ish.  We bailed out early when the hula dancers started miming and hula dancing to "Freedom ain't free" BUT we can check that off the list of things to do.  The drive to the other side of the island was an event in and of it's self.  We went OVER the mountain so we crossed every kind of weather.  Saturday was the best day so far and so typical of Ian and I.  We decided to take the long way home and drive AROUND the island instead of the OVER the island route we took the day before.  We had a car, a road to travel, our favorite music loaded on the ipod and a little Hawaiian BOB.  It took us 5 hours to get home but we stopped at every cool place we saw and had a whim to stop at.  The most fun was a FREE organic coffee and macadamia farm.  The owner is a business genius.  Ian and I were trying to round up change so we could visit the FREE coffee bar so we would not leave with out buying SOMETHING.  He had the best music playing and the coffee and macadamia nuts were DA BOMB! As predicted we purchased home made macadamia butter (like peanut better but more decadent).  This FREE stop was so much better than the lunch we stopped at 30 minutes before.   We were the only patrons in the lunch diner and we soon found out why.  When I told Ian "This has been the best day so far!" he said "It was all because of that great lunch wasn't it?"..ahhh I am not the only smart ass to be found in this family. The lunch was really awful but WE ARE IN HAWAII! So after the coffee our spirits had been re-newed and we then WENT TO THE BLACK SAND BEACH! I just sat there in awe.  I started to cry because I was overcome.  I cried again at the top of this mountain that overlooks the ocean.  It is just so beautiful.  I remember feeling over come with emotion at the beauty of God's creation when I went to Pikes Peak in Colorado and this is so so so much more.  I just wanted to sit there and take it all in.  There were times in the day I felt like Ian was the dad from the Griswald Family Vacation movie when they FINALLY get to the Grand Canyon, the dad says "OK, LET'S TAKE A PICTURE AND LET'S GO".  I was in no hurry.  I sat, I closed my eyes and I listened to the ocean, I ran my feet through the sand, I stood on the shoreline and looked all around me.  I am unable to convey in words what I saw but I understand how people can come here and never want to leave. Once I had my fill of the beach we hit the road again.  I have to tell you that being in the car listening to music and just driving was just as much fun as the stops we took and our next stop were THE VOLCANOS! I stood in front of a hole that had natural steam blowing out of it.  This is where my steam baths at the club paid off.  Most people would get near the steam and then "ooh ooh too hot" and move away but not me! I stood in the direct path of the steam and ignored my body's natural instinct to move but took in all the steam.  It was the best facial ever! I stood there a good while and as soon as I moved 2 inches I was in cold cold weather because we were up on the mountain.  IT FELT AWESOME! Now there I could have stayed ALL DAY LONG.  I could tell Ian MAY be ready to leave but like I told him, It's not like we can just come back tomorrow and see this again. I had to just relish in it. I am having the best time and it is times like these that make getting behind the mule to plow worth the effort.  This trip is quickly coming to an end and then it will be back to the real world.  Fidalee dee, I can't think about that now, I'll think about that tomorrow. Tomorrow is another day IN HAWAII!! (note: notice my bandana as a new way for me to deal with the humidity! creativity is running low, dreadlocks may be next)

P.S. another sign in front of a store that SHOULD have been open today  said GONE TO THERAPY BE BACK IN 1 HOUR.