HAPPY VACATIONING IN HAWAII (Kauai)

We are in Hawaii for a few weeks for the big "0" celebration.  We both turned 60 in December and 40 years of marriage in January.  We barely had time to settle into our new home in Bulverde, Texas (following our move from Vienna) when the time for our little celebration trip rolled around.  This trip originally was to include all of our kids and grandkids, but timing just wasn't right for getting everyone together.  We will try again in a few years when the China kids are back and the grands are a little older. 

Wyndham Kauai Beach Resorts

The view of the beach from our lanai.

Giant Magnolia tree we saw as we were driving around this afternoon.

We attended church here this morning.  There were 30 members and over 20 visitors (from Texas, Tennessee, Idaho, Wisconsin, Alaska, Colorado, Arkansas.)  Great service and very friendly church.

After church we drove west about 20 minutes and found this great little cafe.

They had great coffee!

Garlic and cilantro fries were so tasty!

There are tons of chickens that run around all over this island.  This mother hen and her babies were below our lanai this morning.

The roosters give the wake up call every morning.  This morning every time they crowed a man in our building yelled at them to be quiet.  The man was a lot more obnoxious than the roosters.

 We arrived on Friday afternoon in Kauai and at the moment are socked in by weather (lots of rain!)  I've never seen so much rain-8 inches in 24 hours!  If that happened in Bulverde we wouldn't be able to drive from our place because streets would be under water.  As you can see from the following pictures there is quite a lot of standing water here.

The street in front of our timeshare was flooded.

This is our front lawn with Greg walking down the flooded sidewalk.

I think this duck is staking out his water area-he was still there 2 hours later when we took a walk.

Below our back lanai (we're on the top floor.)

They pumped water all day.

Here was where the pumped water was exiting into a channel to the ocean.

Trees that cover the road leading to our condo.

Not sure how Greg got me with my tongue sticking out (not on purpose!)

The rain must have caused the red dirt to surface from the ocean floor-it looked strange as the waves rolled in.

We're counting on this rainbow we spotted tonight off our lanai tonight to be a sign of no more rain for a few days.