31st July '98

Going to Pool of The Shores

I thought that I might wake up early as possible, because I had never a lot of time. But I had slept until 11:00am. I decided that we might play swim in pool today, because my son was still tired for a long flight. There was a pool and a big jet bath at the center of the site and next the lagoon. The shape of the pool was a ground. The length was about 15m and width was about 8m. The depth was 5f, deep side and 4f,shallow side. We could go to the pool soon by walk, because the pool was near my condo. The guest can rent a towel on the guest office or poolside office. If you want to rent it, in case you are guest, say the number of the towel you want and write it on the form. If you do only so, you get a towel. When you return the towel, you have to sign on the form mentioned above. The pool side office opens from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The office has a concierge. you can ask a reservation to him or her there, too. Therefor, if your room is far from guest office, you go to pool directly and rent a towel there. It is most convenient. There were two couples of foreigners, here we Japanese is a foreigner?, and one Japanese family on the pool site. We spent a time by swimming or sleeping on the beach chair for about two hours. We went back to have lunch past at noon. Today's lunch was So-men(Japanese fine noodles). I love So-men very much. I think that So-men are the best food in summer. I could eat So-men in Hawaii. That was one of my little dreams. My wife brought dry fine noodles, soup, dry leek, Goma, ginger and chopsticks from Japan. She wondered that the dry fine noodles might break during transportation. But they did not break at all. We used pans or pots provided on the kitchen. We used coffee cups for soup of fine noodles. I could make fine noodles to be cool by a lot of ice, because refrigerator had an automatically ice maker. We went to Kailua Kona for shopping after lunch. It was fine weather at Wailea Resort, but it was cloudy at Kona. Kona coffee is a famous. There are many rainy days at Kona. As the result, there are many coffee farms, maybe. As I heard that there was a special chocolate which one can buy only Kona, we went to the shop. There is a shop named Hololulu Chocolate Company at Ward Center in Honolulu. Whenever I went to Honolulu, I bought some chocolates for a present. The shop at Kona was more country like than Honolulu. There were three employees. They lightheartedly talked to us. I heard that they wholesaled only high-class hotel like Orchid At Mauna Lani Hotel. I cannot evaluate the chocolates, because I don't like all sweet foods. My wife said that she wanted to buy 100% pure Kona coffee as we went to Kona anyway. We started to get to coffee shop, which was most near here. When we went fifteen minutes on Route No.190, we saw the first shop. But I did not buy any one, because the shop had few coffees. When we went more fifteen minutes from here, there was a shop named Ferrari Coffee Shop. The picture of the car Ferrari was on the billboard of the shop. I did not know why the shop was named Ferrari in Hawaii, USA. There was a woman in the shop and she explained about her coffee packages. I bought two packages which she said No.1 taste. There were K-Mart and Liverty House just front the airport on Route No.11 during going back. We saw both shops. There were few visitors in Liverty House, because it opened just now. K-Mart was a too large market. I bought a beach ball for playing in the pool there. It was at 6:00pm that we reached The Shores. I thought that we could play tennis about one hour, as sunset was about 7:00pm. So we, three, went to tennis court with three rackets.