Yesterday I was too tired to write, so I'm writing this morning.  Yesterday we were supposed to take a catamaran over to a little island (Molokini) and snorkel around in the coral and turtles, but it got canceled due to wind.  And it was windy!!  Usually on this island, if it's raining where we are, it's sunny on the other side, but yesterday it was cloudy pretty much everywhere.  Nevertheless, we drove to a beach that had less clouds than everywhere else, and relaxed and read our books.  The ocean right there had absolutely PERFECT waves for boogie boarding, but sadly, we had already returned the boogie board.  Wah!!  So we swam a little bit in the fun waves.  The current was amazing.  It swept us to the south along the beach with an amazing speed.  Perry and I both can understand now how easy it would be to get swept out to sea in an offshore current.  We swam for a little while, but there were hidden lava rocks under the water.  One bit Perry on the leg and caused him pain and distress, so he left.  Wah.  I kept swimming -- I tried to go out deeper into the water to the bigger, funner waves, but I bashed my knee on one of the evil rocks.  Grrr!  So I stayed in the shallow part (which was still up to my neck, but only about 10 feet from shore).  We had a great time, until the wind really started whipping up, and blowing sand in our faces, hair, books, etc. and I said enough!  So we left.

Even though it was quite bitterly cold with a wind chill factor of great magnitude, (around 25 degrees  :) -- Perry made me add that -- my hubby really really really wanted to drive with the car top down.  Me, being the willing, compliant little wife that I am, let him.  While I sat there and shivered (although the car heater was on at full blast and pointed at me), he enjoyed the fresh cold air.  :)  Not really.  Actually, I enjoyed it too -- the air really was fairly warm.  But it did get to a point where we did eventually have to put the top up.  So that was our day.  Nice and relaxing.  I didn't take any pictures since we didn't really do anything.  Oh, and we watched "Gattaca" last night - actually quite a good movie.

Just to add an adendum to the Hana Highway entry -- the Hana Highway was utterly gorgeous.  Twisty windey roads through thick luscious greenery and beautiful waterfalls with awesome ocean views of blue water crashing over black lava rock.  I think it was the highlight of this trip for me...