The day started like yesterday did: breakfast buffet, tardy mimosa, lazy morning by the pool…

For the afternoon, we went to the Kekaha Kai State Park. The road was less than paved and our poor little rental car cried most of the 1/2 mile driveway to the beach. The beach itself was not much to speak of. It reminded me of a rocky, choppy version of Sandy Point (under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge) except that it was surrounded by lava.
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Is it Monday? It doesn’t feel like Monday. Are all you suckers working?

We started our lazy pool day at 8:30 (well, Holly woke up at 7:30) with another buffet breakfast. There was some foul-up with my mimosa (didn’t get it until I was done with breakfast), but the food was good.

We spent most of the day by the pools. The “Infinity Pool” was neat; one side of it was shorter than the others and continually overflowed onto some rocks. While Holly and I were hanging out in the Infinity Pool, we remembered how nice Cancun was (no kids).

After I took a nap in the room and Holly took a walk and some pictures, we had dinner at Merriman’s Market Cafe (we didn’t see any of Shawne’s “Lite’s Out” memorabilia). Holly had Ahi wrapped in Proccuitto and I had mozzarella/tomato salad (which was awesome) and a nice fish (I think it was kamachi).

Now we’re sitting on our lanai (balcony for you Hawaiian neophytes) sipping drinks. Aloha.

Sunday morning started with very sore backs. The bed at our hotel was SO stiff and uncomfortable. After stretching out for a bit, Holly and I hit Ken’s House of Pancakes in Hilo. Even though I felt fine, I ordered the ROUGH NIGHT omlette which was an omlette topped with chili and cheese.

After making sure everything was packed, we asked for a late checkout so we could leave our luggage at the hotel instead of the trunk while we went on our Blue Hawaiian Helicopter Circle of Fire and Waterfalls tour.
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We ended last night packing for today and then crashed.

This morning, we woke up early (5:45), got our stuff together and were on our way to the Maui airport by 6:30. We ate a quick breakfast in the airport and had a pretty painless flight to Hilo on the big island. The scenery from the flight was breathtaking. We were able to check into our hotel early and were even upgraded to a suite for our one night. It’s not the most modern hotel, but it’s pretty nice.
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Today we woke up a little later than other days (still before 8) and went down for another nice breakfast (with mimosas) at the Swan Court.

We spent another awesome morning/early-afternoon by the pool. The scenery was very nice and the sun beat down hard. After a quick dip in the pool, we went for a walk down to Whaler’s Village where we had lunch and picked up a new pair of sunglasses for me and a polarizing filter for Holly (happy anniversary to us).
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