The next morning it was raining again. We went to the park giftshop, a gallery of very beautiful things, all out of our pricerange. It made me pretty sad to think of local artists, having to live on a very meager income in a state where rents start at 900$, and milk and gasoline are almost as expensive as in Europe, non-profit giftstores trying to promote their items, and still, most of us need to buy at Walmart… it’s so much cheaper to mass produce in the Philippines or China, where cost of living is a fraction of what it is here. OK enough of that.
In the afternoon we picked some Ohelo berries for Leilani, she loves them. They are in the same family as blueberries and cranberries, not as sweet as the former, not as tart as the later. We threw some into the steam vent for Pele too.
More rain for the berry pickers.
Leilani and Andy stayed in the car.
It cleared up briefly…
We went back to the same Thai restaurant in the evening.
