i’m having a real difficulty this week, trying to remember what day it is. thursday already, although i’ve been thinking it was thursday for a couple days now.
here are some more photos of hawaii. we went hiking/driving in waimea canyon on the island of kauai. it was, of course, very beautiful.
this photo was taken at the first official place where you could get out of your car and look at the view. when we got there, there were at least a couple tour buses and people everywhere and we thought that if this is what the place was going to be like, crowded with tourists, we didn’t want to stay. but this is actually the only place with a huge crowd.
we went hiking in one spot, and we got to a place where it was very steep down and i balked at going down because of my fear of that. so we turned around and went back and it’s good that we did because it started raining, and even worse than just trying to hike somewhere really steep with no vegetation very close by to cling onto would have been hiking in the rain. it rained for a good long time on our hike out, but it wasn’t so bad.
we drove and stopped quite a bit, and we had lunch in a great little restaurant up in the canyon. it was close to the few cabins that were up there. it would be fun to stay in a cabin, but very remote. now i remember that they had some delicious chocolate macadamia nut pie and i wasn’t going to get it but then i decided that i would, because who knew when i’d be back there again and all the pies were freshly made right there and it was delicious and i’m glad to remember that i ate it.
when are we going back to hawaii? actually, lately i keep checking prices to las vegas. it’d be fun to go there for a couple of days, get out of the cold, see a show or two, make our fortune. kevin hasn’t been to las vegas, and i do think it’s a place that everybody should see at least once, because it’s not really like anything else.
there are pretty good deals right now.
i bought a fancy red dress yesterday. mom and i went shopping at von maur’s, a store in decatur, which if you don’t live here is a smaller town than springfield and seems to suffer from lots of unemployment, but von maurs is a great store with interesting clothes that you can’t find around here. i wasn’t going to buy anything, i wasn’t even going to try anything on, but we went into the store and there was a dazzling long dress hanging there, so i had to try on a few things. the red dress i bought is short and really cute. plus i bought a pair of gold shoes to go with the fancy black dress i bought on monday.
so this week so far is primarily about the fancy dresses. i’d like a job where i just wore fancy dresses all the time. vanna white? i guess there’s no job in springfield where i could dress up all the time. unless i figure out how to have “gracetalks” more steadily than once a year.
i’d probably get tired of getting dressed up all the time, since right now i usually wear my tennis shoes to work and it takes a lot for me to even wear boots or clogs instead of the tennis shoes.
it’s sunny here today, and it seems that i haven’t seen the sun for a few days, at least. sun is good. it makes me in a good mood. that plus all the caffeinated tea i’ve drunk today, i’m feeling all charged up. but i have to calm down a bit because i’m about to go give some massages and i don’t want an hour-long massage to only last 15 minutes.
nobody wants a speedy massage.
i have to go now, even though there are at least two things i wanted to discuss. more later.
but only in theory.
ok then,
zippy grace