John and I took a day to play tourist, sort of... on Tuesday we left the house about 10am to head to Hawi and have plate lunch at Minnie's. We took a side tour to Hookena Beach which is about 8 miles from the Plantation. This would be our local beach. It is a beautiful little black sand beach and bay where there were campers and snorkelers having fun. we took a little detour through Kona show John could show me the new stop sign (yes, I said stop sign) and swing by our rental condo. Check the link on my blog if you've never seen it. From there we headed north to Hawi and got there about 1:30 and had "ono" roast pork plate lunch, meandered through some stores and even spotted some whales in the ocean breaching and having fun! Headed back into Kona we stopped at Costco and the Home Depot and bought some vegetable seeds and plants which I started our garden with.... Carolina, we will have vegetables for you and Layla to harvest! We didn't get home until about 4:30 and I was pooped! I have to get used to an almost hour ride into town (depending on if you get behind a tourist). We had yummy shrimp salad stuffed avocado halves that were so big we couldn't finish them.
Yesterday was our 20th anniversary. We spent the morning and early afternoon planting our garden, riding the Gator all over and picking passion fruit, bananas and avocados and planting a couple of plumeria trees. Then we headed into town to check out a few cars (I am not going to be driving a standard transmission truck all over on these hills and in this traffic for sure) and then look at some furniture and make it in time for our reservation at Huggo's. We asked for "Island Johnny" as our waiter, he is a crack up and calls me "Baby Girl" and John "Daddy". Sounds hokie but he really is the best waiter and makes you feel special. We have decided this restaurant is our "go to place" for a nice dinner treat. It reminds us of some nicer places we've been to on Maui. Best part, Wednesday night is kamanina (local) night and there was 20% off entrees (of course, I'm not complaining about the Mai Tai, either). We got home about 9:30 after a very full day to the sound of crickets echoing in the air.
Today John will pick 300-400 lbs of avocados and I will unpack boxes and try arranging a few things and if i get a chance, dance in the rain....
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