I look like Richard Simmons Ovah He-yah. The humidity
is much higher than normal here due to some unusual rain...I think I will be wearing my hat for the rest of my visit here. (Scroll down for a shot that kinda shows how curly my hair is.)
Our plane was over booked. I’m not very fond of United...paying for checked baggage is a notion that doesn’t go over very well for me at all. I find it (as the professor would say) PREPOSTEROUS. Let’s put on top of that that Smarty Pants (that’s me) chose two seats: window (for Milind, he LOVES the window) and middle (for me, I HATE the middle) in the very last row of the airplane, and there we sat for 5 hours behind a very rambunctious 2 year old with a faux hawk and a dirty diaper that his parents didn’t change. I had had it by the time the flight was over. The only thing that got me through the flight was this AWESOME little book about Pomeranians that I had brought with me. I was entranced for at least 3 hours with that book.
When we got to Kauai, as I said, it was very humid. Our bags were the last off the conveyer...and we got to the Alamo rental car LINE and we were kinda LAST. We were standing right behind this well-traveled couple who were a bit excessive with their PDA. Get a room! Well, it turned out we had to wait like 20-30 minutes for these shuttle buses to pick us up and take us to the rental facility. It was so anticlimactic. We just wanted to go eat some lunch and get to the hotel! We were pretty hungry and tired.
At Alamo, even though we signed up for an economy car, they upgraded us to a bigger car....oooh! A Buick! As we drove down the Highway, Milind noticed a red car in the rearview and the guy driving it was wearing a beret. The PDA couple was right behind us! It was more and more funny as we got closer to our hotel, and became HILARIOUS when they pulled in behind us at our same hotel.
Now I want to tell you about this AMAZING hotel. The people who work here are like sweeter than honey. The first time we came here, for our wedding, I remember that they upgraded our room and sent us champagne when they found out that we were getting married at the hotel. So when I went up to the counter and we were getting our room, I told the lady that we got married here 2 years ago, right on the beach and that we are here for our anniversary, and what does she do? She upgrades our room and sends us champagne. Of course, I don’t drink champagne, but that’s beside the point. We now have an awesome Ocean View room just steps away from the beach.
Speaking of the beach. We went to the beach almost as soon as we got here. This is the beach where we got married. It was surreal being back in the same spot. It was really beautiful. When we got married, I made the decision in my mind (a bad decision, it turned out) that I was going to be respectful of my new mother and father in law and make the kiss at the end of the ceremony very unemotional...just a peck. (Because I have been told that public displays of affection in India are offensive.) I have regretted that since the moment it happened. I have felt cheated for basically 2 years. Well, when I went to that beach and I kissed my husband again, the way I wanted to kiss him, it made me feel a little better.
We went back to the Olympic Cafe, and we were STARVING. It was one of our FAVORITE restaurants from when we were here before. To be honest, I couldn’t wait to go. For me, though, it was quite a let down. They had maybe one gluten free item on their menu. I ordered it (it had to be modified to be gluten free) and it suh-ucked. Here’s the problem. Milind ordered fish tacos. I ordered chicken tacos. My chicken tacos came back tasting exactly like a fish taco. Inedible. And I was starving. Not a good situation.
Luckily there was Lappert’s! If you’ve been to Hawaii you know Lappert’s. We went over to the Coconut Marketplace, which is a rundown strip mall kinda place, which is oddly filled with some high-end stores, and we got some of that amazing ice cream. Milind got his usual strawberry. I, on the other hand, had to go “island” and got Passion Fruit, Raspberry Sorbet and Coconut with Macadamia Nut. Mmmmmmmmmm. Gimme anything coconut.
After that we went for a drive...and let me just say, fatique had set in. I was really feeling run down. We went back to the room for awhile, watched the news about Trooper Gate and then decided to have some dinner. I wanted a burger.
We headed down to the bar and I got a burger. No bun, of course. :) I attempted to blog when we got back to the room, but the internet suck-eth here. I am currently typing this off-line and am hoping to get the internet to work SOON.
If it does, you can look for another update again in the very near future. Good day! OH BTW, the weather is great!
