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March 27, 2005
Jiggity jig again
I know, I certainly was neglecting my reporting duties last week BUT with only 4 playing days left, leaving the shops and malls for the more interesting great outdoors, I was busy and worn out.
Monday, the first day of snorkeling was a bust. We fianlly got the Ulua beach, got set up, checked out the tide pool at lowest tide, then grabbed my snorkeling gear all set to see the fishies...mask? (check), fins?(check), snorkel?...um...no check. where's my pretty pink snorkel? I know I wrapped it in the towel when I packed. I was so annoyed; it must have plopped out onto the closet floor when I grabbed the towel out of my bag a few days before for a pool event. So of course, I was so bummed but when I got back to the condo and searched, it was no where to be found. Could I have left it home? nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, ( besides, now that I'm home I know it's not here.) The only explanation is during the inspection by TSA of the "long tube in towel" disguise, they didn't put it back in my bag. Yes, I had the little paper notice that TSA had been in my suitcases. So then I was more angry than bummed, it's not the value of the snorkel, it's that we are so much safer in the air now that they have uncovered the menace...and I was soooooo looking forward to swimming with whales. So I bought a new snorkel later that day.
Tuesday morning we finally went snorkeling..I heard whales songs, saw all my old fish friends but no turtles, eels or octopussies.
BTW..one morning, while sitting on the lanai with coffee, Lon and I were watching some good whale tail slapping across the bay...we could actually hear the report of the tail hitting the water..very cool. I had not heard that on my last trips before.
Tuesday night, Charlotte and I went out toad jacking....for you non hunter types, "jacking" is the act of shining lights in the eyes of the prey to keep them from moving so you can "get them". We only saw two toads out on the grounds but we left them alone. It's a far cry from the first time we were there in 1997 and there were so many toads out in the yard we could hardly walk. sigh....I suggested trying to jack whales but we decided it would be too difficult to sneak up on them.
Wednesday was more snorkeling ( found baby eels in the tide pools) then that evening went to Lahaina for dinner and a great show..Ulalena. Beautiful show with very talented performers ..dancers singers and musicians. The drummers were amazing....and it's just a very moving experience depicting the evolution of the islands of Hawaii.
Thursday was my last full day to play..we went off to the Maui Ocean center so I could try out my new found ability to take videos with my camera. In the "you learn something new everday category"...I discovered my camera has SOUND with video! Well duh, if I don't hardly ever have the sound up on my laptop, how was I to know I had sound with my videos! Thank goodness for bad dial-up forcing me to turn up the sound to hear what was going sour with my connections, or else I'd probably still not realize all my videos had sound. Cool, not only do I have awesome waves in tide pool videos, I also have the music accompanying Maura as she was coming down the aisle in Morgan and Nora's wedding...oh yeah...Morgan and Nora too. (snort)
So all good things come to and end.. my flight was at midnight (or 5am EST) but I did have 3 seats to myself in economy plus all the way to LA. Too bad I didn't really sleep that much. We were delayed in LA by grounded flights into Chicago but that took up an hour of my 3 hour layover there anyway. I got home around 7pm...long day.
Greg and I installed an RO watersystem at home yesterday..with some other gizmo that puts good stuff back into the water to drink AND an attachment on the water tank of the coffee maker to auto fill. Yea...no more lugging water home or running out of water in the coffee maker. I like that.
So, Happy Easter all......I need to take photos of the new vac pots... for inventory ya know. There were a few boxes waiting for us when we got home BUT the numbers are dwindling...
Posted by frani at March 27, 2005 09:09 AM
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Welcome back!
L, DA
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at March 27, 2005 01:49 PM
Welcome back.
Posted by: bunnybeth at March 28, 2005 12:37 AM
Welcome home!! Spounds like you had a great time!!!!
Posted by: Risa at March 28, 2005 10:01 PM
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