Well, actually it began Friday night. We and 2 other couples went to our leaders' home to watch a movie. It was a really good movie, "Tucker, a man and a dream" and we really enjoyed it.
Then on Saturday, we invited a couple here that are working with us to accompany us on our adventure. Whatever that means.
We all went and ate a good American breakfast at Denny's then off to tour a coffee plantation and processing facility.
Talk about informative, our little guide, who was also the "official roaster" for the coffee was full of information. After we left there, she had told us everything you can imagine about growing coffee, as well as avocado and bananas. The farm we were on, is private and now has it's fourth generation family running it. Too much information to relate, but I now appreciate my coffee a lot more. Almost entire process is hands on, especially the picking. We tasted ripe coffee "cherry" which contains the bean and it was different. Usually the cherry has 2 beans inside and they are oblong and flat, but if it has one bean it is called a "peaberry" and a more expensive coffee is made from that bean. The guide said it was only more expensive because of "marketing" and actually was a defect in the cherry.
We then headed out north to the Hilton hotel. We walked in and road the tram through the hotel and viewed all the stuff that people were paying to enjoy. They had a large lagoon fed by the ocean with white sands a waterfall were we spent a few hours swimming.
Peggy spent her time watching the 14 dolphins which they have in 3 large lagoons. Sort of like SeaWorld with trainers and people interacting with the dolphins. She ended up taking over 100 pictures of all the dolphins and stuff. I told her one was enough, because if you have seen one dolphin...you have seen them all. She didn't think that was funny.
After a relaxing time at the lagoon, we headed back to Kona and had a late lunch at Kona Village Inn. I did something I never do....I shared a large plate of nachos with Peggy even though I really wanted MEAT! But, I must say it was delicious and very filling..We then topped it off with a large slice of Kona Coffee mud pie, shared by 4 which tells you how large a slice we got (it was huge). Our sweet friends with us, gave us a special blessing, which we reluctantly accepted by paying for the entire meal...Sweet Godly man and woman from Canada whom God has placed in our lives...so blessed. We then listened to Bosco the one man band, and he is truly a one man band. He plays a gazillion instruments as well as his own recorded background track. He sings and is funny. We absolutely love sitting and listening to him because he plays "Our music"....not this stuff being sung now . Got to view the sunset over the Pacific and you could actually watch the sun quickly sink below the horizon with a foreground of boats and people...truly something we wanted to see before we left. God is so good !
It is 25 days (workdays) and counting down to our completion. It has been hard, fun, hot, blessed, and completely an education for us to be here. Island life is kind of growing on us and who knows, maybe some day God will call us back...
Monday starts another work week for us so this was a blessed weekend for us.
See you later, Aloha...
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