Kauai Spring 09 – Arriving

Oh Kauai… we loved our vacation so much. I didn’t want to leave ever again, but the time went by way too fast. While we were there we made plans to move back, faster than the originally planned 18 months, but it doesn’t seem that realistic anymore. I still hope…

We had a rental car that Leilani – in the good Hawaiian custom of naming everything – called “Moonlight-Edelstein” (Edelstein is German for gemstone), it was kind of fitting for a greyish car – just the color most gemstones have in the moonlight.

We arrived, bought a few essentials (like a juicer, a rice cooker, and a cooler) and potluck food and went to Lydgate. The weather was not quite as expected, but still warmer than in California.

Leilani loves the chickens. She stalked them with the camera and I stalked her, because they went on the road:

Jaya came to the potluck, and the girls loved playing together, as if they’d never been apart.

We slept at our beloved old house, and found the former office quite spacious and nice as a base station. Kirk had cleaned the bathroom really nicely, but the plumbing took a while to figure out. We just hope that the warm weather will make all the advanced systems unnecessary and the solar water heater will work as great as it did for us in the last 3 years. The sunrises are better from the lanai upstairs, but still…

Leilani thought it was really funny too have a hatfoot, and insisted to have her picture taken. She also wanted to be photographed hugging an orange traffic cone, but I’ll spare you that photo.

We went to a kid’s dance event at Kukui Grove, if I get to it I’ll also post a video of Leilani dancing. We met a lot of friends there and decided to have a picnic lunch at Lydgate.

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Later we went on to Anini where we camped the next 2 nights

The first of the many beautiful rainbows we saw on this vacation:

We got up early, and saw the fishermen bringing in their catch. I’m not posting the highres because maybe I might be able to sell this photo…

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