Thursday, July 8: We woke up early in anticipation of getting on the course with Darrell, but … it is howlingly (?) windy and we’ll take a bye, he said early this morning. We practiced driving on the range, chipping and putting practice in the morning. My new putter should be arriving today as well.

Today was our run-around day to Kona. Errands to do, movies to see and places to eat. We ran our of Gin, so our trip was started with a Costco run for more. Their prices are truly amazing as long as you’re buying in volume. The 1.75 liter of Bombay Saphirre was ＄29.95, the same as the 750 ml at the Village Market. Kitchen sponges get moldy/musty fast here, so we actually bought an 18 pack, it should last us a while.

Next stop was Home Depot for some hardware for the Subaru license plate. The car is so low to the ground that we scrape the front plate in some places. The Green Hornet is all better now. Next stop, Toy Story 3, a great movie and I enjoyed it. Reminded me of the kids going off to college and all that emotional stuff. By the way, Rosie DROVE up to Novato to see Tommy on Tuesday and will be returning on Friday, she is growing up.

We stopped by the K-Mart for sundries, Borders Bookstore for golf magazines and the new Ross for Sandy golf shirts. Dinner was at the Macaroni Grill in Waikoloa. A Waiko…blowa day!

Wednesday, July 7: First day that Sandy went to water aerobics. We hit the driving range and practiced some more too!

Sandy made lasagne on Monday, since we were home. Dinner was with Darell and in the conversation, he invited us tomorrow on the golf course. It may have been the wine talking but we are anxious to get our there. I’m not sure Matt would approve, but we WANT to get on the course!

Tuesday, July 6: We were without a car today. Kailua-Kona Autocare picked up the Subau to get new CV boots and front axle assembly. It was an item tagged for fixing last year by the Subaru dealer and we found these folks highly recommended here in the complex to do the work. They offererd, as part of their service, to pick it up and drop it off for us. The owners live here in the Village somewhere. A little expensive, bu their work is A#1.

I started laying out the pacing guide stuff for our Algebra 1a classes next year. I’ve got the schedule layed out and now to begin the tie-in to the standards. This took most of the day to lay out. I hope I am on the right track.

Practiced chipping and putting today!

The Subaru came back to us about 4:45 p.m. or so, all is well. Dinner was Taco salad, yummy!

Monday, July 5: Had our 3rd lesson with Matt today this morning. We learned how to ‘chip’ and went over the putting as well. Practice, practice, our next lesson is Friday and then we move onto to the course and see what it really feels like!

Worked on the marble table outside, wet-sanded with 320 grit paper and it looks nice and uniform in color. The question is to seal it or polish it, research required. My guess – seal it with stone sealer …

Fish, Ahi for dinner. ＄10.99/pound and they really do have great looking fish at the Waikola Village Market.

Sunday, July 4: The fourth of July! We went to Church in Waimea and had Father Bob’s sermon. I feel better when Fr. Bob gives the sermon, rather than Deacon Bill. Father’s are more uplifting and easier to digest.

After church, we went to the Ace hardware store and picked up the rebuild kit for the Delta kitchen faucet. I also picked up some wet/dry 320 and 600 grit sandpaper for the marble table. Based on my earlier testing, I am going to apply a coat of polyurathane varnish after wet sanding and see what happens. I fixed the faucet, its nice not to drip anymore and wet sanded a portion of the table ready for the test.

We had a panini from the Village Market for lunch and Sandy made a fruit basket for the 4th of July Pupu party. Lots of goodies to share too!

We drove down on Waikoloa Village Road to view the fireworks. We had conflicting info about the time, 8:00 or 8:30 p.m. and we missed it by a few minutes by leaving at 8:10 or so. We did get to see the fireworks from the Mauna Lani however.

Saturday, July 3: It rained today, it was kinda cool to watch. We were going up to the Mauna Kea visitor center, but with the rain, we decided to wait. We went to the Kings Marketplace to buy our Rubber Ducky tickets, to the Marriot for a Mai-Tai, (＄11.00 – ouch) and ended up at Buzz’s for salad bar dinner (and other Mai-Tais). Opinion, better at Marriot, but more bang for your buck at Buzz’s during happy hour, ＄5.00!

Friday, July 2: Day for Kona and errands. Left early for Costco to pick up some new tires for the Subara. The 185-70R14 Michelin tires had a ＄70 instant rebate, only ＄330 for 4 tires, one for Sandy’s Acura cost ＄250!  Sandy had to drag me to see the latest espisode of the Twilight movie saga, “Eclipse”. Interesting but weird movie.

Did a few more miscellaneous errands and ended up at the AT&T store next to the Safeway and ordered the new iPhone 4, it will take 2 weeks or so for the order to come in.

Dinner was at the Outback in Kona, good, repeatable food.

Thursday, July 1: Another lazy day too! After dinner, we went to the Queen’s Marketplace to check out the art at the gallery that we liked with the surfboard art. We found the artist’s name and website. Dinner was the leftover prime rib from Sunday’s Buzz’s dinner, it was ok the second time, but better the first.

Wednesday, June 30: A nice and lazy day, we’re getting in the groove. Had Darrell come over for dinner, we had spaghetti and he was good company. Sandi is off to Seatlle for 3 weeks and Sandy thought it would be a good gesture!