We actually had two events scheduled for today. The first was zip lining with the Just Live Zip Line Treetop Tour. I had never gone zip lining before, and I have always wanted to try it out. But there was one problem: I am afraid of heights. Things seemed okay as we climbed up the first ramp to the first platform, but when we got to the second one..
Maggie is enjoying herself.
Well let us just say that I was able to keep all of my cookies in place and I was still able to enjoy myself even though the ground was a very long way down, and there was nothing between my feet and the ground.
Maggie certainly enjoyed herself, and we both even tried some tricks as we got closer to the end of the tour, like going backwards, or going Superman style.
I do not feel so safe on these walking
bridges but Maggie seems to be enjoying this.
We then had lunch at Puka Dog down near Koloa. They were well known for their specially filled hot dog buns, but Maggie and I found it a little gimmicky and expensive. It was tasty though.
Maggie in front of Puka Dog.
The night was reserved for a sunset dinner cruise along the Na'Pali Coast Sunset Cruise with Kauai Sea Tours. We waited for a while next to the office before boarding the ship so I took this time watching more chickens as they tried to cross the road. None made it. For some reason they kept turning back. Maggie on the other hand wanted to record my vacation beard for posterity.
A picture of my vacation beard while we
were waiting for the boat.
We had been on a number of boat excursions already so we were pretty comfortable with riding on the catamaran. Maggie even got volunteered to show how the life vest was used.
Maggie is demonstrating how to put
on the life vest.
As with any of these dinner boating excursions, there was unlimited alcoholic beverages, which I really should try to get money back for since I don't drink! The cruise itself was a fairly long affair, as we needed to head out from the south coast all the way around to the north coast and back. Along the way, we were able to see a number of whales and even some breaches! They were far away though so we were not able to get any good pictures.
A picture of us with the Na'Pali Coast
in the background.
The view of the coast was quite nice, and the captain gave us stories about the movies that were filmed in the area.
Knife like erosion of one of the
mountains overlooking the Na'Pali Coast.
The highlight of the trip occurred on the way back. We were followed by a pod of dolphins and the captain decided to let them follow up for several minutes. The dolphins swam under and beside the boat and were close enough that we could touch them if we got on the floor!
Finally, we stopped the boat to watch the sun set before continuing back to port.
A picture of us with the sun set.
I was able to get one of the crew members to take a picture of us with the sun setting and the moon rising.
A picture of us with the rising
moon.
The weather cooperated with us very nicely today, we certainly enjoyed it.
So it seems as if the link I had to the Polynesian Cultural Centre was flagged as a bad site. I double checked the link and, yup, I got a warning when I tried to visit it. I double checked if the link was changed and no, the search and Wikipedia still point to the same page so.. I just removed the link. We will see how the repost goes.
Had a long night again with the baby and ended up sleeping through most of the morning. Spent the rest of the afternoon trying to book a few events for the rest of the week but only got around to booking a Dubai city tour and the desert motorcycling on the weekend. We had the desert safari that night and our pickup was at 1530. Originally we were to take Elsy with us but later on decided to leave her at the house. That was our best decision of the night. The second best was taking jackets along with us. It got pretty cold pretty quick once the sun began to set, and the winds picked up as we left the compound and we ended up driving into the desert in the middle of a sand storm. First up was a quick pit stop at some store in the middle of nowhere. The vendors were hawking scarves for way more than they were worth, but we both realized that with the winds picking up we needed something to protect our faces from the flying sand. Next was a quick photo shoot when we entered the dunes. ...
So most of the family is vaccinated now. Serena is the lone outlier, and that is due to her age. Because of that, we have decided to keep her with my parents and not send her to daycare anymore until she gets both of her shots. We had pulled her out when Omicron hit this winter and was pretty hard when we tried keeping her at home, but now that Maggie is back at work we had to go back to sending her to my parents. This situation may be the norm for a while as the under five trials for the Pfizer vaccine have not gone very well. She does not really know much about what she is missing, but she really needs to build up those social skills and daycare is a great place for learning to communicate with her peers, whether physically, or virally. But with cases at the daycare every couple of weeks or so, we figure that it is best to wait just a little bit longer..
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