End of the Innocence

So, our last few days included sharing and re-visiting parts of the island with Jan and Ray.  Jan, even more than Mary, is an avid "sheller" so we visited Puako Beach on Tuesday and Wednesday.  She was very successful!  On Tuesday after the beach we took them to Harbour House, reprising our first day on the island, where we each had a schooner of beer with snacks.  Later that day, continuing the theme of food and drink, we stopped in for Happy Hour at Pueo's Osteria, a great Italian restaurant in Waikoloa Village!

On Wednesday we went down to Hapuna Beach where I was able to do some boogie boarding in some pretty big waves, at least big for me.  We had to keep moving our chairs and towels back as the waves continued to roll up higher and higher.  Then more shelling.....

Off to Lava Lava Beach Club for our last dinner there(we missed a Happy Hour by 5 minutes....we're losing our touch, time to go home),before getting some sunset shots.  We ended our last evening at the Kahulanui concert at King's Shops and then back home to try to finish off all the cheap booze we had bought.

We spent our last morning with Jan and Ray, as they were of to Maui for two weeks, and then we went down to Hapuna for boogie boarding, back to the Seafood Bar for our last happy hour and then down to A-Bay for one final Hawaiian sunset and it didn't disappoint....probably the most beautiful of the trip.....luring us back.

Red eye back to Vancouver, day room at the Pacific Gateway Hotel, where I slept and Mary shuttled off to the River Rock Casino in an attempt to win money to return to Hawaii and avoid the Terrace snow....needless to say, we're bundling up for our flight home.