May 10 -- Happy Birthday Barbara

Breakfast of a Non-Champion - Papaya/Banana Yoghurt smoothy in honor of Zoe

Hawaiian Skies

May 9 - Shaw's Gillin House Picnic

Dusk, the Evening Star, Swaying Palms

Auntie Joan's Kick-Ass Curried Couscous

Uncle Rick's Weber-Grilled Ahi - Onoliscious

Pre-Nuptual Shaw-Gushman beach picnic at the Gillin House on Mahalepu Beach.  This was a group effort by old friends.  A magical evening around sunset; a gathering of friends and two clans, soon to be joined in marriage.

May 8

From Seals to Sunsets

May 7

May 6:  The first full day on Kauai.  I'm lying on a couch reading "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed -  the story of  26 yo woman who walked over 1000 miles on the Pacific Coast Trail starting in the Mohave Desert.  It's a lazy day here.  Looking out on the palm trees and the blue sky and the ocean in the distance, and feeling the peace of this place -- the phrase "Alternate Reality" came to mind.  This is Peace -- however transitory -- but for the moment -- far from the madding crowded life (as I know it, as I have created it) in the Purple Valley.  What is real? This place, or the other?

Dawn

Flower - Wot?

Gabi and Scott (today is his birthday)

Ubiquitous Bougainvilla

View from the Lanai

May 5

We arrive at Dusk - Jet lagged after being up almost 24 hours.  

The sky eerily beautiful.  Cinqo de Mayo -- Celebrations.