Today we started off with a favorite Hawaiian pasttime - we went to K-mart and Borders for a few cheap towels and a bird/flower book - successful trip. Our cashier's grandson is going to OSU in engineering next year. she reassured me that the pineapple I picked out was a good one.
Then back to the condo for the daily reorganizing and finding of stuff. Current MIA item. The camera case. camera is now living in the sunglasses case.
John took a boogie board out this morning. I got a few photos. I'm sure he'll be the dot in the waves but oh well.
Then we had a quick lunch and headed to the National Tropical Botanical Garden's Allerton Garden. There's an Illinois connection. Allerton bought a hunk of a beautiful Kauai valley from McBrides. Allerton was a big banker dude in Illinois, with a farm that he eventually donated to University of Illinois. He loved creating gardens and his adopted son loved making water features. His life seems like it would be a good movie. He got "stuck" on Kauai during WWII and couldn't return to Ill until the war was over. Then he got off the plane in a snow storm and decided maybe Kauai would be a better place to live, so he started a gorgeous garden to save tropical plants. Mary Ann, I saw a humongo staghorn fern on a tree. ( Plus a Peace Plant (like in our dining room) the size of a large azalea. The 2 1/2 hour tour went by very fast. Some of Jurassic Park was filmed in the garden. Also, cardinals were introduced to the islands in 1930s and we saw and heard them here today.
Then we made a quick stop at Spouting Horn, where ocean is forced into a lava tube then spurts up out of a hole. wow. dramatic.
Stopped at our local "smaller than Ray's in Waldport" grocery store for chicken and treats. Tomorrow John is spending some of his birthday money to try a surfing lesson. I'll pass on that one, but I promise I'll get in the ocean.
Wednesday is zipline and maybe kayaking up Wailua on Thursday.
highest temp in the car today 88, but it didn't last long. Most of the time it's 70-80.
There's plenty to do and see so we are only making a dent. Who wants to come along "next time"?
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