Surprisingly, when we woke up it was cloudy out. First time that had happened since we got there. Especially surprising because the side we were staying on is desert and gets almost no rain. Didn't rain at all though, just cloudy. We decided that since we hadn't seen much of the complex we were staying in that we'd go take a look around.

We walked up to King's court where there a bunch of restaurants and shops. It was Memorial Day for the US, so they seemed to have some pretty good deals on. Even for non-touristy type of things. We flitted from shop to shop, looking at the kitschy tourist items, the clothing, and the art. My family pressured me into buying a cute white hat. I don't usually wear hats, even in sunny places like Hawaii, but figured it would probably be pretty useful for here and for summers at home.

Zach managed to find a sweet deal on a pair of sunglasses. He's got a thing for sunglasses, but at least these ones looked nothing like his other dozen pairs. But even though there were some good deals and some pretty nice things, a lot of it was still really expensive. I really liked some metal frogs at an art gallery we went into, but man, were they expensive. I'm sure it's just because of the clientele you get at complexes like this.

For the afternoon we decided to go out to Hapuna beach that Sue and Dave suggested for boogie/body boarding. Essentially it's like surfing for people who can't surf. You just ride small waves into shore with you body pressed against a little board. The condo we were staying in had quite a few extra boogie boards in the house for you use, so we packed up a bunch of chairs, towels, boards and sunscreen and headed out to the beach.

You do have to pay a small fee to park in the parking lot for the beach, but it seems to be justified because they have a couple public facilities as well as lifeguards on duty. The beach was huge. Not only was it long, but it was very wide. The sand was beautiful golden, soft and fine, sand. Made walking across it a little difficult because you sunk in so much on the dry parts, and it was still pretty hot despite the overcast day.

We set up our towels, umbrellas, and chairs on the right side of the beach, and after slathering on sunscreen (because even if it's cloudy, it's still so easy to get sun burnt, especially for the really white people), Sue took us out into the waves to teach us how to boogie board. Luckily, the waves were pretty small and tame, so it was easy to get used to how they rolled in. Took us a bit of time to learn how to time the waves. First you have to line-up, so you're facing the beach, pick out the wave you want, then push off the bottom just as the waves starts to hit you so you can ride right on the crest of the wave. At least, that's what seemed to make us go the farthest. If you do it really well you can ride the board all the way back into the beach.

While relaxing on the beach, we noticed some whales off to the far right side. They were splashing about and it seemed like it was a Momma whale trying to teach the baby whale how to breach. Talk about cool! We ended up spending hours at the beach, alternating between sitting in the beach chairs watching other people try to boogie board, and boogie boarding ourselves. Zach even managed to get pretty pink on his shoulders.

When we got back to the house, we had Zach make up some of his famous wraps for supper from the things we'd grabbed on our first morning. Everyone seemed pretty happy about that. We also tried some of the flavoured icecreams we'd gotten at the stores that morning. Tasty macadamia and coconut icecream! Once again, we headed down to the pool for the last part of the evening.