Random Thoughts …

Sunday, July 18: A nice slow morning. In the afternoon, we headed to Kona for the monthly Alii Drive craft show. It was OK, smaller than last year.

Dinner was barbeque with grass-fed Waimea beef, New York steaks. Nope … forget the grass-fed, not enough fat and these 2 steaks were terrible and chewy and nervy!

In the evening about 7:50, we got to see the ISS fly overhead for about 3 minutes.

Saturday, July 17: Today we went exploring to the northeast side of the island. We left in the morning and stopped by the Waimea country fair. Beautiful flowers for purchase and we’ll come back next Saturday.

Stopped by the Foodland to get the back-to-school supplies that were requested by Father Bob last week. It is a nice store, much better than the across-the-streer KTA. We can go to church and then hit the grocery store.

Kept heading east on the Mamalahoa Highway (19) to Honoka’a and the Tex Malasada drive-in and restaurant. Deliciously hot Portuguese creme filled doughnuts. Worth the stop.

From there, we headed to the Waipi’o Valley overlook to check it out. It too was breathtaking and the road down is as steep as they say it is. 4×4 necessary on the way down in LOW gear, to keep the brakes from overheating.

Back on Highway 19, we went to millepost 27 (just beyond) and down to Laupahoehoe Point to view the sites. Again, surf that is rough and beautiful to see.

We headed back to Waimea just in time for 5:00 p.m. Mass and then to Solimene’s for dinner. We had a pizza, it was pretty good!

Friday, July 16: Sandy worked for a while, she went to water aerobics and I did my walk. I do want to walk down to the Blue Hawaiian someday.

After lunch, we headed down to A-Beach to relax with our Mai-Tais during happy hour before the pupus at the pool.

Thursday, July 15: Today, I applied to 2 positions available, perhaps, at UH Hilo and at Hawaii Community College, we’ll see. Time consuming … but got it done.

Had a few errands to do down in Kona, hit Costco and Safeway. Stopped by the Harbor House in Honokohau harbor for dinner. My ahi dinner was better than Sandy’s mahi-maihi fish and chips.