Random Thoughts …

Thursday, July 29: This morning, I had a golf lesson with Matt. Sandy was working in the morning. We did about 7 holes on the back 9 and he told me what clubs to use for what situations I found myself in. After Sandy’s work, we had lunch here and then headed down to the King and Queen’s Marketplace for wedding dress shopping for Pat. Aprelle is getting married sometime in September or October and a goal of this trip for Pat was a “proper” beach wedding dress! We found it too!

Dinner was Ahi tuna from the Village Market. The interesting thing is that the same fish is ＄24.99/lb and ＄12.99 at the local market, talk about a markup! The market down at the Queen’s had however, some small sample bottles of different vodkas, so I was able to pick up a few for my Martini skill building, a cheap way to test out different flavored vodkas!

Wednesday, July 28: This morning we hung around but at 1:00 p.m., we had our appointment with Fr. Bob up in Waimea. Sandy and I left feeling very good and the last week when the kids are here should be very cool! After returning from Waimea, we decided to use the ＄100.00 Hilton dollars for dinner at the Kamuela Provision Company, the high end restaurant at the Hilton. Beautiful view and beautiful prices but an excellent dinner considering the dining credit we picked up. Sandy had the surf and turf, with the turf being tempura battered. I had the Ahi tuna encrusted in sesame seeds.

Photo ops were aplenty with the resort photo girl. She did a nice job, one of those, you-can-view before you leave type things. Reminded me of the things you do at Universal Studios. Self part is ＄15.00 and valet park is ＄24.00, ouch!

Tuesday, July 27: Golf course, finally. After a leisure morning and lunch, we FINALLY headed to the golf course, just the 3 of us. We used the discounted afternoon price for 2 carts and managed through 7 holes! It was awesome, we didn’t know what we were really doing, but it was BLAST! For dinner, we BBQ’d the flank steak that we had purchased yesterday at Costco.

Monday, July 26: Today we went down to the Hilton Hawaiian Village to listen to a timeshare pitch. It sounds good, but it’s all about points and the cost is expensive. It is probably better to do all this stuff om the open resale market. Luckily, we decided to think about this decision with a 24 hour option granted. We went down to Kona, saw a movie, Salt, in the afternoon and did some errands. We picked up a flank steak again, these are hard to come by. Pat was coming in for the week, so it all worked out with her flight delay of about an hour. We wisked her off to Don’s Mai-Tai bar down in Kona for drinks and a light dinner. She was tired, but glad to be here. While sitting and relaxing, we got to see and hear the luau show at the Kona resort next door, it was nice and relaxing.