October 19th, 2019
Got up and went to breakfast at the hotel since it was included with my room. It was a really good buffet with pancakes, waffles, eggs, sausage, muffins, croissants, cold cuts, a few Asian breakfast items and an omelet station. What did I have? Peanut butter on English Muffins! PB on toasted bread was something that I loved while growing up and frequently ate it both before and after school. I won’t allow myself to buy jars of peanut butter, I can easily finish a jar in a couple of days, but when I am on vacation and they have it on the breakfast buffet, I allow myself to indulge.
Later in the morning, we took the hotel shuttle to Lahaina, we visited the banyan tree and then walked around. Lahaina has a lot of art galleries, shops and restaurants. I am not a shopper and am not looking for art, we were pretty much done with looking around in about an hour. We had found a place on Yelp called Leoda’s Kitchen and Pie shop. It had several thousand of reviews on Yelp with a 4.5 star rating. They served both sweet and savory pies so we decided to Uber it over to the shop. We weren’t disappointed. It was delicious!
As I went into Uber to get a ride back to the hotel, I realized that there was no cell signal and the restaurant WiFi didn’t have internet access. How was I going to get back to the hotel? I started wandering around the parking lot hoping to get reception and although I could get a single bar, when I went to order an Uber, I would get the message that the app couldn’t connect to the Uber service. I was about to give up and go back into the restaurant to get change for the payphone to order a taxi when Sophon was able to finally get through and order an Uber.
I was relieved but it got me thinking on just how much we rely on connectivity. The Uber driver that picked us up also had a problem with her cell phone connecting and had to ask us where we were going and she didn’t start receiving directions until we were closer to downtown Lahiana.
We spent the afternoon sitting by the the pool and then wandering down to the beach and swimming in the Ocean. We returned to our rooms and then went to dinner at Leilani’s on the Beach in the Whaler’s Village. I felt like I had been eating all day so I made it light meal of salad and poke. Sophon on the other hand seems to be able to eat everything.
We went back to the hotel and from our room watched the fireworks.
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