Thursday – July 2: Went into Kona to do some errands at the Home Depot. Dropped Sandy and Rosie off at the movie theatre to see “The Proposal”. The theater is called the Hollywood – Makalapua Stadium Cinemas and it is located at 74-5469 Kamakaeha in Kailua-Kona. It is a shopping center with 3 stores, Super K-Mart, the theater and the local Macy’s!
Went to Stealth Audio (next to the Killer Taco place) and while I waited, they installed 2 brand new 6.5″ front door speakers in the Green Flash. The old ones were blown out. These, actually, don’t sound any better, but at least we get some volume out of them!
After the movie theater, we picked up Sandy’s office chair at the local Office Max. The air conditioner fan in the Subaru is making a very weird noise!
On our way home, we stopped by the “Kona Cold Lobster” place located at 73-4460 Queen Kaahumanu Highway in Kona. They are by the airport, just drive down the solar energy demonstration road (you can’t miss it, 808 329-4332) to the end, right before the gate. It is a lobster farm and ships to all the restaurants on the island. He has quite a setup. We picked up, for 80 dollars, 15 lobster tails (split) for dinner, it is called a “flat”, like the strawberries. The hours are Monday -Friday, 6:00 am – 2:00 pm and Saturday, 6:00 am – 12:00 pm. CASH ONLY! The owner packed the flat for travel with gel pacs in a box. The tails are split in 1/2 so that we can BBQ at our leisure. We had 6 lobster tail halves for surf and turf dinner today, Cook them on the BBQ for 1-2 minutes on each side, starting with the meat side down, then flip to cook on the shell, basting with butter. They are done when the meat turns white from opaque. Don’t cook them too long or they get rubbery.
I have to get one of these gas BBQs, it is the only way to go! We figured it out to about 5.10/lobster tail. Rosie said these were “the bomb”
Wednesday – July 1: Rosie took the car in the afternoon to pick up Elyssa. We hung out at home. I updated her Macbook to 10.5.7 and all other updates. That took a while.
Sandy cleaned the floor in the afternoon, lots of work.