A new week and a new island...

Hello again – I think I missed a day or two somewhere! Craig and I are now over on Kauai for the next week and our friends the Slacks are safely back home in New York.

We arrived yesterday, and are settled into our little efficiency here at the Kauai Marriott resort. We lucked out on a pretty good view here and the ocean is visable form our balcony. We will be taking it easy this week; we have no rental car and Craig will be working half days. I hope to meet up with a woman we met last year on a cruise who is also here this week (actually she stays here for months at a time – what a life!) We had dinner at the on-site restaurant, and given that we are living off of left-over provisions this week (we just have a tiny frig and no stove), we both thoroughly enjoyed a full meal! It is a short stroll to a nearby shopping area so we have some resources at our disposal. I’m looking into the shuttle bus run today to the local mall for some entertainment!

It is rather cool (for Hawaii) and overcast today and it has been very windy since arriving. But everything is always so beautiful and green here on Kauai. Alas, there may not be many sunset pictures this week as the views we have here are mainly south and east and we are surrounded by large green mountains which block the sun when it rises and sets. But the pool here is the main attraction and I promise to post some pictures – it is enormous!

Enjoy today’s pictures: the view from the plane flying over Honolulu/Waikiki and Diamond Head and then flying into Lihue, Kauai…