A Spider With Breakfast, Compliments of the Kitchen

What interesting times!
This morning, I went to the Gazebo Restaurant for the third time since I have been here and met up with some friends from work. They are some awesome people and they came into my life at a perfect time and they all love the Lord so much. We had some great conversation that soon became rather serious when all of the sudden, a giant rubber spider free-falls flat into the jams basket in the center of our table. The three girls surrounding me all leaped and screamed though I must say I knew it was coming. When I was here last summer, the eight of us from my Discipleship group sat at that same table and were pulled the same prank. The guys that are behind the tinted windows in the kitchen are the controlers of the eight-legged fiend that wrecks havic on a pleasent breakfast outing. They use fishing line to release 'Harold' (my personaly dubbed name for the thing) that is lined and pullied from the kitchen to the rafters above our plates. Once I saw them all jump, I looked straight at the peaking eyes coming from the cracked windows to my right, laughing almost as hard as they were. The whole restaurant stopped to see.

Today:
Kihei, located on the east side of the island facing south. It is where my D-group stayed last summer. I remember it having a less-developed feel to it where there are many free-lance venders at various kiosks.

Tomorrow:
Cruising the Hana Highway and headed to the end of the roat to the city of Hana and the Seven Sacred Pools. I suppose that it is my little taste of the lush, underdeveloped feel of Kaua'i that I will not get to experience while I am in the islands, but that is alright with me. There is always next summer :)

Yesterday:
Around 8am, I felt a little tug on one of my toes while I was asleep. For a moment, I though I had drempt it, but only seconds after I opened my eyes to check, I saw a little Hawaiian head with a mohawk hair cut pop his head out from the side of the bed. It was Mei's nephew, Silver, a little 4-year-old Chinese-Hawaiian boy who was at our house while his mommy was out running errands. Once he saw that I spotted him, he fell back down into hiding.
We spent the rest of the day with Silver, the mommy Sheyenne, and her newborn baby and Silver's "Sister Zhi" at baby beach. The way Silver says it is "Dider Die." I love those kids!
Later that afternoon, Mie's friend and mine, Bernice, asked me to lead worship with her for the youth group that night. That was a really cool experience. We played a game I played in the Jr. High group at Seacoast: Main Deck, Quarter Deck, Poop Deck. Scott and Carla would have been proud.

Things to come for sure:
1. Good grinds :)
2. Good beach days :)
3. Goodbyes :(