After my big day at Costco (I still can’t believe I did that – I’ll likely be bungee cord jumping or skydiving next) I was looking forward to a more relaxing day. Audie called me from the lobby first thing in the morning, ready to go, but I hadn’t had my shower yet. I asked for ten minutes. He told me he had one other thing to do, and would be back in about a half hour.

Hawaii time is always twice as long as anywhere else. This morning, that was a good thing.

My shower was broken. It tried to squirt water. But it just couldn’t. Two little drops would leak out and then it would hiss at me and another bit of water would trickle out. And then it quit trying altogether.

Apparently, I was having a bath this morning. I turned the water on for the tub and there was no hot water. It was luke warm – barely luke warm to be precise. The little temp control on the faucet was locked at 105 degrees. I decided against forcing it past that temperature and crawled into a quick, cold bath. Some might say that would be refreshing. I’m not in that group.

An hour later (Hawaii time, remember) my ride returned and we were off. We took a quick detour on the way to Audie’s condo where I took these photos.

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