Saturday January 24th 2009

The Manchester United fans watched the game live on the computer thanks to someone who downloads it for all to see. Fortunately United won and so we were able to enjoy the rest of the day. Claire and Andrew went off to explore Kaunakakai on their own and buy some supplies for dinner. Jim and I made use of the time reading and suntanning on the lanai. In the afternoon we decided to go to Dixie Maru beach for a swim but the door of the condo locked behind us so we had to get someone from the office to come and open it. While waiting for Jim to go to the office Andrew and Claire attempted some gymnastics to see if it was possible to climb up to the lanai to get in. This only resulted in him splitting his swimming trunks so then we had to go into Maunaloa where we were lucky to find one pair that was his size!

We spent about an hour at Dixie Maru and I got my first ocean swim of the holiday - after a week! When we used to go to Abersoch years ago Mum and I went swimming every day and I like to carry on the tradition. When we got back to the condo we went down to the pool to use the hot tub and got talking to a man from Comox. Jim had gone to check out the tennis courts and the man asked me if we played tennis. I foolishly told him that we had met playing tennis and he said we should have a game because they had brought their tennis racquets with them. Anyone who brings their tennis racquet with them is going to be too good to play with us - we haven't played since we got married!

Dinner was barbecued steaks, peppers and zucchini with parmesan garlic mashed potatoes - Claire and Andrew can cook every night from now on! After dinner we played three games of Blackeye with Jim the overall winner.