After another good nights sleep, relaxing breakfast and some reading time, it was time to head to the northeast part of the island for our day of surfing. The beach we were meeting our "Learn to Surf" instructor (yes, that was the company's name!) had instructions like "after mile marker 21 turn and then by mailbox 4253 there is a dirt road, go to the end then get out and walk down the hill to the beach".  The traffic going through Lihue was quite heavy and...

After sleeping for 9 hours we woke up ready for the day. We were both happy that we slept till 630am, as it is a 5 hour difference from Houston, and we were fearful that we would wake up ready for coffee at 3am. Nope! slept right on through...whewhoooo!The plans for the day were limited as we just wanted to relax and get in the slow down mode. But the two activities on the agenda was a 2.5 mile sunrise walk from the fitness center and a luau in the evening. ...

A very early start to our day as our flight was at 6am, which meant we had to leave Ken's by about 3:50. The week had been very long for both of us, and we were not looking forward to the wake up time. Ken had very full week with meetings and work functions in the evenings, while I had lots of work and a quick trip to Midland to help Ashley (my oldest) who was sick. Nevertheless, we hauled ourselves up, taking solace that by the evening we would be hu...