van down by the river???
I'm pretty sure you're looking for yellow submarine, but that is just too easy.
Right off the bat.
Finish the above line for bonus points.
Check!
Notice he's only given me three passports.
I replied "Not quite." And nodded at the missing passport.
He handed it over and we left.
D'oh! Missed that detail.
If you want to see the sunrise from
Haleakala crater,
you have to be up at 2am.
Yikes. Thanks, but no thanks!
there's no way in heck I'm going to go back
and read the crap I've written,
Me neither.
And... my throat... wasn't bad at all.
It wasn't 100%, but not bad at all.
So much so, that I didn't really notice it all day.
And that would hold true for the rest of the trip.
Great! I'm glad you were feeling better!
Hmmm.... back only a little sore,
so... normal.
I can relate.
When you're young, you wake up, toss the covers
and pop out of bed.
When you're old, you wake up, lie there for a bit,
slowly sit up and stop.
See, I'm kind of in between. I still think I can toss the covers and pop out of bed. But there's about a 50/50 chance that popping out of bed is followed by a 4 letter word and collapsing back onto the bed.
Once I figured it out, all was well.
I made a mental note to tell the rest of the family.
Why? That's no fun! See how long it takes them to figure it out!
Paid for my stuff (less the discount... saved about $9)
Heck of a discount for just a few items.
"Hey!" Ruby says. "Did you know you have to pull the tap
to make the water come out?"
Oops.
"Uh, yeah." I sheepishly reply.
"How long did it take you to figure it out."
"A few minutes." She says.
See! It's more fun that way!
I knew she wouldn't like it.
Heck, I knew I wouldn't like it.
It's spam and rice for Pity's sake.
I cut the wusubi in half... and half again.
each piece was about the size of a small sushi roll.
Kay and I hesitantly sampled, ready to spit it out.
She looked at me. I looked at her.
We blurted simultaneously:
"It's good!!"
Well... I guess I'm glad you liked it!
I just want to take a second to remind you all
that this trip was going to be a quick one.
So there are going to be times when we'll skip things
or leave things only partially explored...
because we just can't do it all in three and a half days.
Hard to bypass some things, but you gotta do what you gotta do!
Then again, as I look back at this trip,
I'm amazed at just how much we actually did...
Without feeling like we were rushed.
That's great!
As we drove towards our destination,
I spotted some humpback whales off the coast.
I pointed them out to the others and, except for Kay,
who missed them, we all oohed and aahed.
They weren't close, but, still... whales!
Cool!
And wouldn't you know it?
There's one right on the way to our tour!
Hey, they know where the suckers... I mean tourists will be.
She prefers it that way, too.
Otherwise it's like this:
Me: "Tell me when to turn."
Her: "Okay."
Ten minutes later.
Me: "When do I turn?"
Her: "What?"
Me: "I need to know when to turn."
Her: "Oh. I wasn't watching."
That sounds familiar. Only replace "I wasn't watching" with "you should have turned right back there."
My concoction was quickly assembled
and I asked the nice girl to pose for me.
Look at that smile!
I saw that smile a lot on the island.
So that must be the "why does this creepy tourist guy want to take my picture?" smile.
Right hand. Reaching for napkins.
Eyes on the prize as I reach.
No thought for the left hand.
The one holding the ice.
Which is rapidly melting.
And red, sticky syrup is spilling...
onto my shorts.
Crap.
How shall I say this.
It looked like... uh...
It appeared as if... um...
I can't do it.
I can't say what it looked like.
Nope.
Can't do it.
Period.
This puppy dives to 150 feet below the surface.
How cool is that?
(If you're at all claustrophobic... then, not at all.)
COOL!!!!
(Uh, okay pkondz. What's the starboard side?)
I always remember the difference between
port and starboard by thinking left has fewer
letters than right.
Port has fewer letters than starboard.
So Port = left.
Starboard = right.
That's actually a handy way to remember it.
And given the fact that I live a landlocked life and will never use it, I'm sure I'll forget it in about 5 minutes.
But they also told us that they've been operating for
30 years and never had a single accident.
That's a pretty good safety record!
Once on the sub, you climb down an almost
vertical, ten step ladder.
So Disney had that part pretty accurate.
You can see where we sat, on the left.
Portals on the right.
You don't quite have a portal per seat.
Kay and I shared one.
And it was fun, because we'd point things out to each other.
Wow!!! Disney really did have it right!!! Looks just like the inside of a Nemo/20,000 League sub!
And they had a very good reason for doing so.
Because almost everyone has heard that
from watching TV or movies.
Well yeah... if they didn't do it, you'd have done it yourself, right?
In 2005, Atlantis Submarine sunk the Carthaginian
It has torpedoes????
If you look closely, you'll see that there's
a 6 or 7 foot reef shark lying on the sand
right behind the squiggle.
And this is the point in the tour when
@pkondz got a yellow stain on his shorts to match the red.
"Maui is home to a lot of beautiful waterfalls,
but if you see one on the sub, that's a bad thing."
or
"We're now at our max depth of 150 feet.
Although you have no way of knowing that except for the
digital display. For all you know, we're only 5 feet down."
Wow... so you're saying the captain started off as a Jungle Cruise skipper, then worked on the Finding Nemo subs and now he's graduated to the real deal????
We crossed the park, then crossed the road.
(Why did the Ponzi cross the road? To eat a burger.)
Can't think of too many better reasons!
Elle and I each had a rootbeer float (darned coupon gave me a craving)
It's free.
and Kay had a grasshopper shake:
Oreo cookies and chocolate syrup hand blended into
locally made Gourmet Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.
Obviously, I'm a bit daft. I didn't order that.
Stupid coupon giving me cravings for inferior beverages.
Don't get me wrong, the float was fine.
But it wasn't... this:
That looks great, but your float was free.
It was more like a grilled cheese sandwich
with a sliced wiener stuck inside.
That could have some potential...
Kay and I got burgers.
Because when it comes to drinks, I may be dumb.
But not when it came to the food.
The one thing I really didn't like?
The price.
Factor in the tourist location,
add a tip, then... add in the lousy Canadian dollar exchange rate.
Two burgers, two hotdogs, one rings, one fries, one shake,
two floats (one free) and a diet coke...
$114.
See! And if you and Elle hadn't used that coupon for the free root beer float it would be even more!
5. What local treat do we get?
Answer: Shave ice. 15 points.
And POG juice!!! Come on!
1. Name one store we visit.
Harley Davidson
2. How many beaches do we go to?
1
3. We split up into two groups.
Who's with who?
You and Kay, Ruby and Elle
4. Did you see it? Or should I say, him?
Yes... He's supervising the shave ice girl.
5. What tragedy befalls Kay at the beach?
(not really tragic)
Sunburn?
Then maybe an hour long trip in one
