Today we went back to the Kiahuna beach. It is one of our favorite beaches in Kauai.
We read, played in the waves, and relaxed. Enjoying the sun, the breeze and the palm trees.
At 4:45 pm we returned home after a short stop for grocery shopping. Dinner tonight was grilled salmon and salad.
One of our favorite beaches is the Moloa bay. It’s a long horse shoe shaped beach along a small bay on the east-north-east coast. The beach is in total about 500 meters of sand and there are usually very few people there. Today it was actually a bit crowded as there were about 20 people there… And a dog.
The dog had a large stick that she wanted thrown into the water. At some point Chie was closest to her so she wagged her tail and looked so playful and pleading like just a dog can look. Chie succumb to her pleading and threw the stick into the water. But not far enough… Before Chie was back in her chair the dog was back at her side ready to play again.
At 5:30 pm we left the beach, did some grocery shopping, and went home. We had pasta with anchovy, olive cream sauce, and salad. Yummy.
Woke up and went almost at once to the airport for the 30 minutes flight to Kauai. In Kauai we got our rental car and drove to sunny Poipu where we checked in at our usual room.
After a quick unpacking we drove to the Kiahuna beach and placed ourselves under a palm tree. The group of 6 Americans that we usually see here were here this year too. Same chairs. Same umbrella drinks. Same sun protected white noses. They just look older, in difference from Chie and I 😉
It was great being back at Kauai. Sand was warm. Weather was great. Water looked beautiful. My book was good. Company was great 🙂
We left the beach around 5:30 pm and did some grocery shopping before heading back home. At home we cooked and ate Japanese curry and salad. Yummy.
By 9:30 I was in bed sleeping (( _ _ ))..zzzZZ
Once we got through security we got on a shuttle bus and went to our hotel. The room was not available yet so we just changed clothes and went shopping.
It took us most of the day to visit all the stores we wanted and then some.
We had dinner at the Takonoki, a Japanese restaurant with nice food and very friendly owner.
After dinner we bought some water and went back to the hotel. I was so tired I fell to sleep at once.
This week I have been in San Francisco and Napa on a business trip. First stop was at our office in Redwood Shores where we a work colleague from Lund and I) had some meetings with the “locals”. On Wednesday night we continued Napa where we checked into Silverado Resport for the Open Source Think Tank workshop.
Meetings in our Redwood Shores office were good and we got a lot of useful input both on our business as well how it is living and working in the SFO area. The Open Source Think Tank conference was really good and was great opportunity to meet many people working directly or indirectly with open source. We also had a great dinner at a vinery not far from the hotel.
The hotel though was another matter. It claims to be a luxury resort and the prices are thereafter. But the service is not. They were unorganized and, as I found out when I got back home and examined my bill closer, had charged me $380 too much for spa treatments and dinners that I have no memory of receiving. That is OK but not responding to my request to fix it is not, still waiting for an answer after more than one week. DON’T GO THERE!!!
We also experienced the worst rain and thunderstorms in SFO for many years. And it haled in Napa. No luck with the weather, until the last day when it was California blue sky again.