Recently in Hawaii Category

My hubby and I went out for a nice brunch at the Maui Prince Hotel. It is a champagne brunch kind of affair, so not something we do very often, but I’ve been bugging him to make reservations and he finally did last week, LOL. Anyway, I’ve been remiss in posting photos from Maui so after brunch we drove around with the top down (it was a gorgeous day) on the miata and took some photos. I’ve put them in a few different locations, so you can browse them at your leisure. The ones at craterdweller.com have been resized to 1024x768, for space reasons and can be found here. The hi-res versions are over at Flickr in the Maui Set. Just to keep things simple, I plan to keep adding new pictures into their respective Maui galleries (rather than make a new gallery each time.) 

Note: My hubby took most of these (except the few from the beach at the Maui Prince) while we were moving, LOL. We tried to include some shots from around town but didn’t get a very good sampling. Maybe next time .

Now playing: The Wallflowers - Feels Like Summer Again

Just back from almost a week of fun and sometimes sun on the Big Island of Hawaii. For those not familiar with Hawaii geography, the Big Island, is the largest in terms of square miles and also the southernmost island in the chain. On the western and sunnier side, is Kailua-Kona, also known for its Kona coffee and macademia nut plantations. My husband and I stayed in Kailua-Kona for 3 nights at the Kona Village Resort. Unfortunately, the resort did not live up to its brochure or the recommondations of friends, either because of new ownership or outdated information. Althougth in fairness to our friends, it had been three years since their stay at the resort. Somehow the idea of donkeys (kept on site for who knows what reason) braying all night long did not match our idea of a restful vacation. The chef and one of the dinner hostesses were rude, we had to chase after housekeeping for them to even perform rudimentary cleaning, I’ll spare you some of the more disgusting details, and the place was run-down. Not rustic, but run-down. For the amount of money guests pay there really isn’t any excuse for peeling/cracked wallpaper/walls, holes in most screens, so all but the fattest mosquitos could come in and feed, and a toilet that looked like it was installed in the 1960’s. Again, this was not something made to look rustic/antique etc. This was just they were too cheap to replace it.

Despite our letdown with the Kona accomendations, we still made the best of it and had a good time. The weather was mostly sunny, with a few clouds and rain showers here and there. The sea turtles would come and sun themselves on the beach, and we took a glass bottom boat ride out over the reef and saw plenty of tropical fish.