It’s that time again… The time of getting up at 4am to make our way to the airport for a day of travel expected to last, somehow, longer than a whole day. Time gets kinda weird.
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After 4 hours on the plane we spent another 6 hours here:
Then we spent another five hours on a plane.
Then we ended up here!
And then we journeyed by car for about another 30 minutes, and ended up here.
But after having been traveling for just over 24 hours, we then collapsed into slumber.
But not for long!
Well now that we can see the world around us it appears we have, in fact, arrived on Kauai! Being that it is (allegedly) Saturday we should go to breakfast, and then immediately to the local farmer’s market and buy their most flavorful fruits.
At the market we ended up having to huddle under a vegetable stand’s tent for about 5 minutes while the storm blew over, and then we went on our way with our armloads of papayas and mangoes. (The good thing about getting soaking wet here is that you generally dry out pretty fast, and it’s not really cold at all.)
We napped and took it easy all afternoon, listening to the wonderful waves.
It’s kind of weird being on the south shore. There really isn’t a sunset or sunrise. It just gets light, then gets dark later. It does mean we don’t get the blasting laser of the setting sun right in our faces though, which in nice.
It gets pretty dang dark, which I really love. It’s 9pm, dark enough to see a lot of stars, and warm enough to sit on a deck chair and enjoy them. Lovely.
It’s also lovely to sleep with all the windows open and the sound of crashing waves.
Come breakfast time, the most delicious of fruits were plundered.
At low tide we went down to explore the shore and tidepools.
Matt discovered that wet lava rock has approximately zero surface friction. He doesn’t like to talk about it.
Turns out these squawky little buggers are an invasive species that destroys the local fruit farmers crops, in addition to leaving feathers and other leavings all over our lawn. They’re pretty cute though, especially when they hang off the end of the palm fronds and blow around in the breeze.
And that brings us to the end of Sunday, the third night. Tomorrow we’re going on some sort of rum-based adventure, Emily is very excited.