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kerfuffle…

18 Saturday Dec 2021

Posted by sulis303 in life, moments, retirement, Uncategorized

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in the middle of the night I woke up to what sounded like the snow plows cleaning the street…

but there hadn’t been any snowfall that needed removal…

I lay there listening for a while, but eventually I had to see what the kerfuffle was all about…

I could see lights through the bedroom window so went downstairs to have a better look…

it was a bit disconcerting because I could see a police car sitting down the street in the middle of the road…

there were flashing lights on the next street from another police or fire vehicle…

and a spotlight was shining down from the police helicopter…

as I watched for quite a while, and eventually listened from back in bed, the helicopter flew in circles with the light shining down all around the houses close to me…

the light flashed into the bedroom a number of times…

I felt nervous and didn’t want to sleep for a while so I watched a cooking show until all was quiet and hopefully whoever or whatever they had been looking for was caught or gone…

haven’t heard anything about it today…

Maui, day fourteen…

24 Wednesday Apr 2019

Posted by sulis303 in family, food, health, life, loss, nature, Photography, technology, travel, Uncategorized

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great final day on the island… after breakfast and a song by the chickens and rooster, we went snorkelling at a lovely beach where I saw lots of fish, although no turtles… I did have a little issue with the rocks as I came out of the water and have a small cut and bruise on a finger;-(…

got a final photo of our car which got us around splendidly…

from there we checked out of the hotel and went and had lunch under the banyan tree… it was lovely…

we drove across the island to the heliport close to the airport and finally had our helicopter ride… such beautiful views everywhere we looked…

picked up some chocolate and headed to the airport where we are now waiting to board our flight…

Maui, day twelve…

22 Monday Apr 2019

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appetizers, big girl pants, cafe, Easter, helicopter, Lahaina, Maui day twelve, pool, shops, stars, supper, waves, widow

interesting day…

started early with breakfast of hard boiled eggs and mini eggs (from the Easter bunny) before leaving to drive across the island to the airport…

we stopped at the little cafe next to where we are staying to get hot chocolate and tea for the drive… what we received was iced chocolate and black tea without milk and sweetener…

we arrived at the heliport in ample time for our flight and got all the way to the exit door when we were told that the video equipment wasn’t working so we would need to wait while it was repaired… we waited for an hour, finally got into the helicopter… took off and immediately returned to the pad as a light was on that shouldn’t have been… then they cancelled the flight and rebooked us for a few days later, sigh…

we did spend a lovely afternoon in a sister facility to our hotel where we lay by the pool and enjoyed slushy drinks…

we walked along the Main Street in Lahaina and had appetizers at two different places for our supper… at the second one, I dumped my water glass all over the table… our wait person said “sh*t happens”… kind of felt it covered much of the day’s activities, lol…

ended the evening listening to the waves and watching the stars…

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