Kauai April 1

I joined Dave in his morning ritual of watching the parrots fly off just after sunrise.  Then he joined me for my morning walk to Spouting Horn. Love the little cardinals. 

Cute shaved ice stand by the condo

We decided to pack up and walk to Baby Beach for some beach time. We were not there long when high winds came, blowing the umbrella out and inside out while Dave was on a walk down the beach, he noticed me struggling with it and came and helped. Then he attempted another beach walk, suddenly there was a torrential downpour and wind. I kept hold of the umbrella with one hand and grabbed our phones and kindles trying to get them somewhere to stay dry. Dave again comes back to help! We were soaked as well as everything. Dave was ready to go but I said let's stay and dry off a bit as the sun was coming out. We finally gave up on the beach  time, but I did get one picture of another cardinal!

We then decided to head into the little town of Koloa to shop around and have lunch at the Fish Market. 

Monkeypod tree

We got our lunch to go from the fish market and took it to Poipu beach park to eat. Dave got a Poke bowl and I got kalua pork and rice, which also came with broken rice, which was a really fishy slimy clear noodle thing. We chatted with a couple of women who were also having a picnic lunch who recommended we do the rum tasting at Gaylords Plantation and get a rum bar cookie. We planned to go there for lunch the next day so decided we should check it out. 

Dave's poke

We wandered around Prince Kuhio Park which is right at our condo.

Since we had such a great  time at Merrimans we decided to go there for happy hour, but first we went into a couple of shops in the mall area. 

View out of the window at Merrimans

Looking back to the bar area at Merrimans

We just had a drink, mai tai for me and a whisky sour thing for Dave. Unfortunately we left before the music started. We decided to get take out Mexican bowls from Da Crack, which had been highly recommended. We enjoyed our dinner back at the condo on the lanai. 

Later we walked across the street to enjoy another beautiful sunset.