HawaiiL Part Five

2013

The last couple days there were mostly filled with short walks exploring shaded areas of the resort and island and some pool time. Poor Monty never did get better. He kept trying to come out and enjoy the island, but would end up feeling so awful he'd have to go back to the hotel room to rest. 

I did some tourist type stuff on my own while the guys hung out together. One day it was to Kauai Coffee Plantation. I'm always fascinated to see the what I eat or drink growing, so this was a natural draw for me.

Did you know that the darker a bean is roasted the less caffeine it has? This explains why espresso doesn't give me a jolt, but a French roast does.

The machine that gets the coffee off the trees.

Another day I went on a tubing adventure. They tube differently in Hawaii than they do in Texas.  First off, there was no beer. Secondly, no bottoms on the tubes. You just had to hold yourself up.  Maybe I had the wrong size tube or something, but I kept falling through my tube until I was closed up like a book.  Not an attractive or comfortable position to be in.

 

Rainiest spot on earth.

We went up to see the rainiest spot on earth, Mount Waialeale, where it gets an average of 452 inches of rain a year! After that we headed down what was once the irrigation system for the sugar cane fields in tubes. The water we were in was the same water that came down from Mount Waialeale, so it was a freezing! We weren't allowed to say freezing on the tour. They preferred we use words like "refreshing" or "life changing". 

I saw a baby pineapple too! A wild baby pineapple.

I had a couple grouchy moments while in Hawaii. Some explainable, some not. When it happened I'd take myself down to the salt water lagoon and sit in the sun to un-grouchify myself.

Grouchy me

Then my family would come join me and we'd frolic and play in the water and they'd let me take goofy family pictures and everything would be OK again.