Brought Down by the Man!!!

So today, I was up at 6:00am so I could golf at Kauai Lagoons. I was really looking forward to drinking those awesome bloody marys and paying 60 bucks for the drinks that I owed from Nick losing at Bocce Ball. Golf was fun and as usual, I sucked on the front 9. On the back 9 I had a respectable 45. My drives were on fire and my putting didn’t suck. It wasn’t great, but it didn’t suck.

I got down to the pool around noon and it was time to BBQ. I brought down the BBQ stuff, the pre-mixed mai tai’s, margaritas and beer. We were all set. I went to go swim with the boys in the big pool for a few minutes, when my wife came down and said, “We were brought down by the man!!!” Basically, the head of security came over to our table and said we couldn’t have any outside alcoholic beverages in the pool area. Damn!!! Just when I thought we had won the battle, we got nailed. So the quick thinking of my highly successful family members opened up all the pre-purchased Marriott Drink cups and poured in all of the beer. We drank those fairly quickly, then it was on to the Mai Tai’s and Margaritas. The waitress, bless her heart, came over and said. Just don’t make it so obvious, they won’t come search you…. LOL Wahoo! Someone is on our side. Of course we feel bad for her since we aren’t buying drinks. The good news is that we are giving her 100 bucks just for us hanging out in her area and looking away when needed. We are going to try and be more discreet tomorrow.

We ate dinner tonight at the Hukilau Lanai. It’s a simple, but nice restaurant in Kapaa. We discovered it last year and fell in love with the food and the price. The food is much better than average and they have a wine list with 20 wines under 20 bucks. Since I am a cheap wine connoisseur, this is perfect. Tucker had the Sashimi Nachos for dinner? Sound odd? I thought it did too. They had Sashimi and some sort of caviar on won ton chips. He really likes sushi, so this was perfect. I think the wine did Gina in for the night. We got back to the rooms and she was toasted. At one point she laughed continuously for 15 minutes. I doubt she will even remember.

Tommorow, Aug 6. Is Tucker’s 7th Birthday. We plan on having a BBQ by the pool tomorrow for his birthday and then playing Lotteria (Mexican Bingo with a drinking game twist for the adults.) It should be fun. Although we already gave Tucker his b-day present, he said that what he would really like for his birthday is a massage? WTF? He’s only 7. What in the hell is there to massage?

Winning the battle against the hotel and the geckos!

So I think we are winning the battle. We brought our pre-mixed drinks down to the pool, beer in a cooler and someone went to Hamura Saimin to bring back lunch. The cost of lunch for 22 was 80 bucks. Take that!

My brother in law thought it would be fun to play Bocce Ball on the lawn by the ocean this afternoon. Picture this, a lawn with rolling hills of green. I have a picture of the boys on this lawn in my Facebook profile. Anyway, it made for an interesting terrain. He may have discovered a new game. So my oldest son, Nicholas was the chosen one to play with my father-in-law and 2 brother-in-laws. Of course you can’t play unless there is some kind of stakes involved. Of course these stakes involved rounds of drinks at golf tomorrow. Lucky for me, Nick lost and I got to buy 3 rounds of drinks. I took over for him and was able to get a round back, but sheesh!!! Don’t bet unless you know the true value of a dollar…or should I say 60 dollars…

Normally we go out to eat at the more popular restaurants on the island. We usually make reservations first thing in the morning and negotiate to our desired time. From the looks of things, we aren’t going to need to do it this week. It’s quite dead on the island and when I asked for a prime time dinner spot at Scotty’s BBQ, they said, “Sure, no problem.” I even called back to make a change and they said, “Sure, no problem!” To give you an idea of this place, last year I called the same day and got stuck with an 8:30pm dinner reservation. We were able to get 7pm this time and there were still empty seats in the place. Oh, and unlike the hotel, these guys didn’t raise their prices 33%. They did raise them, but the drinks were still the same price as were the kids items.

Last night when we came in from dinner there was a gecko in the entry way. We spent about 15 minutes trying to catch that little sucker. We debated on keeping it or not, but in the end we decided to put it in the bushes outside our room. Nick tried to be gentle and coax it out of the glass. He called to me and said he was having trouble and that the little guy didn’t want to leave. So being the gentle person I am, I put a piece of paper in there and dug it out from the glass and flicked it 15 feet past the bushes. He was free now!!!

Of course the young ones were kind of freaked out that a gecko was going to sleep with them the rest of the night.

Mas Tequila

Well the battle for cost savings is in strongly in our favor. A large group of us went to COSTCO to purchase, breakfast foods, lunch stuff, snack and alcoholic beverages. The total for 6 families was $401.50. That included 2 cases of beer, a gallon of Rum, some mixers and a gallon of tequila….Ooops! Did I say gallon? I guess it might have been a gallon had I not dropped it in the lobby when I opened up the hatch of the mini-van. Yes, that’s right the tequila bottle busted when it hit the cement. The good news is that I saved the Rum with my foot and the mixers were in plastic bottles.

Because of my swift movement in saving the rum, I decided that I should be the one to go and buy another bottle of tequila. So we took all the food down to our room to divvy up and I went to the local ABC Store to pick up tequila. There were a couple different sized bottles, but none the size that we purchased at COSTCO. I did, however, see what appeared to be larger sized bottles in the back of shelf. I reached back to get the bigger one and as luck would have it, my elbow clipped the front bottle and I knocked it off the shelf. Yes, that’s 2 bottles of tequila broken within a matter of minutes. My luck was just awful. Anyway, I apologized, bought some extra stuff, along with the tequila and made my way back to the hotel.

After all the beer was put into our mini-fridge and the food was divvied up and sent off to all of the rooms, I went down to the pool. I had to share my story about the second bottle of tequila that nobody knew about at this point. They were already laughing at me because of the first bottle of tequila, but the second one had them thinking that I should be nowhere near glass. My brother-in-law said, “Look out, those things usually come in three’s. “ Great, just what I needed.

I went into the big pool with the kids while Gina went up to the room to get some lunch for herself. About 30 minutes come by and Gina comes back down to the side of the pool. She is spotted with large patches of blood. She is bleeding from her arm, her foot, her chest and her hand. It looks as if she had been in a bar fight and won… (The winners never have anything on their face.)

I jumped out of the pool wondering what happened and in typical Gina style, she says, “I’m okay, it was nothing.” Excuse me; blood dripping from your arm at an alarming rate isn’t nothing. She then elaborates to tell the story of how she got up to the room and opened the refrigerator and a bottle of beer fell out. It hit the linoleum floor and baseboard just perfect enough that it exploded, hitting her in the arm, chest, hand and foot. Yep, it’s was all glass and cap shrapnel. By the looks of things, it hit her pretty hard too. So there was my “Number 3.” Gina jumped into the pool to have the chlorine clean out the wounds a little bit, and then some big Hawaiian dude came over with plenty of band-aids for her wounds. She now has a couple of large bruises, but it appears she will be okay.So the good news is that there haven’t been any more broken bottles as of yet…

FYI, I am almost relaxed and on Hawaiian time… But not yet!