We have been on Kaua'i for 3 days now and we LOVE it! Today has been the best. We got our fancy new room (due to some mix-up we were downgraded for two nights, so they upgraded us to an OCEANVIEW room for the rest of the stay) and we rented snorkle gear and we drove all along the north shore and found some cute little snorkle beaches. The parking was awful, but we saw wonderful little fishes! Mikey really likes the needlefish. I am searching for a humuhumunukunuku apu a'a (the Hawaiian state fish) and some sea turtles. The guy at Snorkle Bob's (the rental place) was really friendly and told us where to find the best fish and get away from the big crowds. Mikey's mask was leaking, but we both had a blast. I think that is what we will spend the majority of our time doing.

Yesterday we hung around the hotel and the shopping center. We are still on CA time so we are getting up really early and getting tired really early! We enjoyed the pool and did some grocery shopping. We were both excited to see that they have an abundance of Japanese cooking and snacking foods as well as lots of organic, scoop-your-own dry goods sorts of things right in the regular grocery store. Those are things we normally have to search out! We got to see a hula show at the place we went for dinner.

Our original room left something (or many things) to be desired...no clock, no glasses, not enough towels, etc...but our new room is like an apartment! We could be perfectly comfy living here...in fact, I think it is about the size of our first apartment! My favorite thing about it is the sound of the waves coming through the open door. The first thing we did was shut off the air and open the sliding door. I am very happy here!