Tuesday, July 13: Wet re-sanded, with 600 grit this time, the marble table outside. From everything that I have researched, the table is sealed and now I just have to polish it with polishing compound to bring out the shine.

Benjy’s, the new Spikes at he Clubhouse has happy hour music now from 4:00 – 7:00 p.m., today was Archie, playing the electric piano, he was nice and mellow.

BBQ’d ahi tuna for dinner, good stuff.

Monday, July 12: A nice slow day with time to practice golf.

Sunday, July 11: Leisure day. For breakfast we tried the leftover carnitas and rice and beans burrito, yummy. After dinking around in the morning, we headed to Kona to pick up my new iPhone 4 and the electric grill at Macy’s and groceries at Safeway.

We returned for Ahi BBQ dinner from Village Market. The price at Safeway was ＄18.99/lb, while here at the market it was ＄13.99/lb. It pays to comparison shop!

After dinner, I sync’ed my new iPhone 4 with my last iPhone 3G synch and all is well. It is much faster and the process at the Kona AT&T store was actually pretty painless. The assistant even applied the screen protector for me, their cases were rinky-dink, but I have temporary protection!

Saturday, July 10: Felt much better this morning, actually by last night. We decided to go to the beach finally and picked A-Beach to hang out. We had the mango-macadamia nut Hula Girl pancake mix for breakfast. We realized that we need some kind of electric griddle to make pancakes and heat up the tortillas.

Left about 10:30 and spent the morning down at the beach. Had a sandwich from the stand on the beach and they told us that anyone can use the chairs on the beach in front of the Marriot, that we didn’t have to bring our own. Cool to know!

We were thirsty for a Mai-Tai, so we headed to the Marriot bar by the pool and had 2 each and some french fries. Sandy really was hoping for a cheeseburger grilled on a BBQ for lunch so this was second best.

Back to the beach for more relaxing and a litle snooze. We decided to leave and see if we could make Mass at 5:00 p.m. We did, and then decided to try our Tres Hombres in Kawaihea for Mexican Food. Sandy tried the chicken enchilida and shredded beef taco while I tried the carnitas. Both were quite good and we were pleasantly surprised.

We concluded our marathon first season of “24” with the last 2 episodes. I’m not sure what people saw in this show.

Friday, July 9: In the installation process of putting on the new hubcaps, I tweaked my back a little, it’s been worse before. It was windy today as well and Matt called to cancel our lesson. We are scheduled for next Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. Rested the whole day …

Putter from Amazon arrived yesterday, anxious to try it .. but will have to wait for another day.

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.