Kona-Day 9

Today was a day for relaxing and bumming around. While reading on our lanai this fellow came to visit us. He stayed on the railing for a while watching us watching him.











This guy in the corner was walking all over our lanai, under the table we eat at, the couch, in front of the table I'm writing this on until he ended up in the corner.










And then this guy came along. He's wrapping band of metal around the tree.






















You can see the bands of metal and the "shoes" he's wearing as he climbs the tree.













He has a loop of rope around his middle along with his tool belt. He also has hanging from a rope a machete. He's up there hacking off the junkie parts of the tree and palms that are getting too heavy and making it difficult for the people in the unit (up and to the left of us) to have their $1million dollar view.

The long pods you see flower and then become coconuts and then fall on people's heads so he was cutting those down also. He throws the items down to the ground below-those pods sound very heavy. He was cutting so much we thought he was preparing the tree to be totally cut down. But he told your father that if he was going to cut down the tree he would have worn spikes.





And now this is what the tree looks like. Your father and I think the next door neighbors should have the same thing done to their trees and then maybe we'd have a better view of the sunsets.














The whole point of this trip was to celebrate (early I know but it's the only time both of our work schedules will work) 30 years of wedded bliss. We decided to eat at Brown's Beach House at the Fairmont Orchid Resort. Absolutely one of the best restaurant surroundings I have ever been to. You can just see the end of our table where we were seated. This is the hotel's beach-stunning. Unfortunately, the wind was at gale force toppling over water goblets at the tables behind us and whipping our menus right our of their sleeves. Dad's was rescued by a kid walking by on the pathway just below us. The torches wouldn't even stay lit. It wasn't cold just very windy.


This is the view to the right of our table. The views were gorgeous, the company was entertaining as it has been for the last 30 years, the food was artfully displayed but...not that great tasting. Here is what we had:
Appetizer-Dad-crab cakes.
Mom-Triple tasting-phyllo wrapped prawn, braised rib served over risotto, and a seared scallop with some kind of orange caviar on top. All was good just not great (especially for the price)-the little eggs popped in my mouth like those pop rocks!
Dinner-Dad-NY steak, truffle macaroni & cheese
Mom-triple tasting of three different fish-Walu, Ono, and seared ahi tuna (which was pretty much raw except for the very outside-not my favorite). For dessert we shared a mud pie made with kona coffee and vanilla ice creams with an oreo cookie crust. Dad ate the kona coffee ice cream and I ate the vanilla.


My wonderful companion for these past 30 years! Looking forward to the next 30.

I told your father that to keep up my travel blog we were going to have to do more traveling. He replied that I could write about my travels to Lowes, the grocery store...and thus it continues.









Tomorrow we pack up in preparation for our return flight on Saturday. We're trying a restaurant that was voted best on the island 13 years in a row called Merriman's.

ALOHA and MAHALO