Friday we woke up to a beautiful Sunrise at Anini, Andy went on a hike with Randy while I babysat Tristan at Nadya’s filmset, the Hawaiian Village while his mom Kicka took photos at the set. Leilani and Tristan played well and wild together, and again I was amazed how she fits in on Kauai. Kicka took photos of the pair, I hope I’ll get some of them and post them here later…
While I was reading this to Leilani, she reminded me “Tristan smacked me on the head with a stick…”
Anyway – here is Andy’s hike above Honopu Valley:
Randy on the narrow ridge
Open Ceiling Cave (rare view)
‘Awa’awapuhi Valley (even rarer view)
Meanwhile, after a few hours at the set, Leilani and I went to Papaya’s for lunch. We went to our old house and she napped (as almost every day on Kauai) and then went back to the set and played with Tristan for a couple more hours.
We drove on to Saltpond, where I impressed a few locals (and myself) by setting up the tent in high winds. Our neighbors (who kept us well fed with apple bananas and Costco muffins) claimed that a few guys had tried to set up camp just a few minutes before I did and given up… Leilani helped very well, by sitting on various corners of the tent – my self-moving tent rock (and the other rocks I used were about her weight…). I used all the stakes we owned (usually for 2 tents) and arranged all our possessions in the tent so it would not fly off, we had our dinner (soup and fruit), worried a little about Andy as the sun was setting, and drove off to art night. Soon after we got hold of him on the cellphone and reunited:
Leilani took photos and played with Randy, we listened to Hawaiian music, Andy ate fish burritos, and we looked at art and had a good time.
We bought more stakes and the next morning Andy built the shade tent too, but obviously needs to learn how to set the self-timer…
Morning beachwalk
Later we drove to the Prince Kuhio festival in Poipu…
… and had a great lunch of shrimp and gelato (which made me very tired…)
Later we went back to Saltpond for a quick swim and change of clothes, and then to Hanapepe where we met our friends at the Makana concert: Aditi and Jaya
The orchid show:
The winds were so strong that we had to take down the shade tent, and Andy worried about the other tent… When it was dark, Andy and Leilani went to the bathroom and a rain started – when something came into the tent. It was too dark to see, but somehow I knew it was a cat and the cat somehow knew I was a nice person, so I felt around for it and it started purring… it stayed for the night (out of the rain) and we gave it a can of salmon for breakfast.
There was a beautiful sunrise again
The day stayed rainy – which means lots of rainbows…
Adam had given Leilani and audiobook of Lilo and Stitch, (did *not* make the parents happy at all) and Leilani absolutely loved it. She knows that Sandy has a lot of Disney movies and got to watch it a few days later (made the parents even unhappier), too. Hanapepe is where the movie is set:
Funny, I am reading this post half a year later, we are not friends anymore with either of them… wonder if that was the subconscious reason…
We went to glass beach and picked up a lot of beachglass:
Leilani built a glasscastle instead of a sandcastle for a change, she even made the door and window by herself:
Andy imitated Leilani’s feet pictures:
And we drove on towards Wailua, rainbow over Haupu
That’s a zoom into a rainbow in case you are wondering
Rainbow over Wailua beach
We went to visit Randy for Dinner.
