Big Waves

Yesterday we drove up to the North Shore. According to the 'surfing experts' the conditions were right for huge 40-50 foot waves.

We left around 8:15 am. Traffic wasn't bad until we got up along the coast. It was back up for miles.


Poor Chrissie. With Lee's sore back and traffic, she was about ready to drop her folks along the side of the road and head home.

For all of you Montanans

Chrissie and I went down to the beach to get some sun. It was a cool 80 degrees and the water was a little bit chilly - maybe around 60 degrees. Chrissie said it was cold, but once you got in it wasn't too bad.



Here are our tracks. We had to drag our chairs all the way from the hotel to an empty shade thingy. (That's the technical term for it Chrissie says).

Marriott Ihilani

We’re staying at the Ihilani in Ko Olani. We have an ocean side room and the view is beautiful. The doors to the balcony are four large rolling plantation shutters. The cove is man made with water breaks so the beach is never too rough. And best of all, it’s not crowded!



The sad part of all this is here it is day 2 and Lee and I haven’t even been down there to walk on the beach.

Poor crooked man . . . he is in much pain.

We're going in First Class!

Flying out of Kalispell has its obstacles. The major one is there are only a certain number of flights out and in. So we got up at 5:00 this morning to catch the 7am flight out to the Delta hub in Salt Lake City.

Lee got a great deal on a Hawaiian vacation several months ago. We promised Chrissie that we would go see her (or else her middle child syndrome would drown her!)

Besides who would pass up a trip to Paradise?

Unfortunately, Lee developed the what I lovingly call, the "Crooked Man" syndrome. His low back had been hurting for the last 6 weeks and it really got BAD the last few days. Fortunately for Lee, he was able to get in to see his fabulous physical therapist Julie Corwin. She works wonders! But he still was crooked and in pain. His doctor was able to call in a couple of prescriptions for him and we picked it up yesterday.

In Salt Lake, Lee became worried about the long flight to Hawaii, squashed into some small center aisle seat. So we were able to upgrade to First Class!

This is the first time either of us flew First Class. Boy, do they treat you right.
We got complimentary Mai Tai's right away, complimentary food, soft drinks, head phones and problably more alcoholic beverages if we had wanted them. Yeah, all you have to do is pay more $$$ to get this treatment.

FYI, it's a lot cheaper to upgrade at the gate!