Entries this day: Lazy Mary_n_Matt Talkin

Lazy

1:58pm HST Wednesday 12 February 2003

Today has been lazy so far. (*) I walk walk walked toward the town and entered some shop with lots of souveniers. The cat was all, "where's your shoes? you forgot them.." and I go, "my shoes??" like his was the oddest question in the world. His shop was hardly the paragon of high class.

"Yeah, shoes, normally you wear shoes in public; this isn't your house."

"Even in Hawaii??"

"Especially in Hawaii."

"Oh." and I turned around to leave. How is he trying to be all "especially Hawaii," where there are no poisonous spiders, no thistles, no cold days, plenty of lovely beaches and soft grass and climbable rocks that beg for bare feet???

"Can I help you with something?"

Oh, now he wants to be all nice after dissing me for not wearing shoes. "Oh no, not at all," I say without glancing back, and I left.

I was going to buy some postcards, but not from him.

Shit, I won't even go into a restaurant on this island that requires shoes. There are plenty that do not. All four that we have visited were fine with bare footses.

I got ten postcards from a different store. Walk walk walked some more, found out where the post office is, will use it when I want to mail these.

Mary n Matt

7:33pm HST Wednesday 12 February 2003

On the back balcony, I learned the names of Matt and Mary who are staying in the bunk above Janette and me. Matt split to do whatever Matts do and Mary and I chatted for a while. One of her first questions to me was "where do you go after this?" which I thought was weird, but I'm all "back to Dallas."

Then I realized why the question was posed that way. They've been traveling for six months over north Africa, southern Europe and south and central Asia. Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland, Thailand, Laos, Nepal, India, China, and others I've forgotten. Wow wow wow.

She enjoyed Thailand and Italy the most. And they've found English spoken in most places, enough for them to get around and speak only English. Coolest story she told me was how they connected with a friend of her brother. Or did not connect with her exactly, but were invited to stay at her parents' house in India while they were away. Only three servants were there to ensure a comfortable stay in this mansion, but somehow they were able to make do. How amazing to stay in a mansion like that!

That's kinda like when Homer became a billionaire for a day.

Matt and Mary thought this adventure might satisfy their travel bug, but the need to travel and see more has only grown. Awesome.

Oh, and another cool thing is they *also* made cards with their name, email address, a quote, their picture on it! I haven't met anyone else who has had cards made specifically for traveling. Maybe I'll put my picture on my next set of cards.

Talkin

9:41pm HST Wednesday 12 February 2003

Went downstairs to chat it up with whomever might be down by the picnic tables. Richie (sp), Sara, Nee (sp), Kevin, Kimberly & her sister Hillary and Pat (?) were all down there at various points. Oh, and Janette came to visit after her walk. She made popcorn for us and a sandwich for me! How on earth she found sandwich making materials out of that which we had left over from yesterday amazes me.

Yammered about stuff and things and offered popcorn to everyone multiple times (Kevin had wanted popcorn when Janette came up (down) with the idea, but he vanished before she came down (down) with the popcorn.) So we had extra popcorn and fun offering it over and over to each other, especially funny when the offeree already was eating popcorn.qqwefgft rgftgftrt5rrrtftrryht66y6yty666yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy6tytttttttty

Oops; the above was typed while I stuffed my clothes into my bag, using my keyboard as a table.

10:02pm

Now I'll read today's entries to Janette and maybe Stranger in a Strange Land. I had the book in my bag and stuffed my bag down between the wall and the bed, then had to drag it out to get the book. Put it away again Then realized I had left my mouthguard in my bag and had to drag it out again. When the bag was stuffed down there the third time Janette was all, "can I borrow your toothpaste? or your T-shirt?" So funny we are!!

(*) HAhahahahahhaah. Can you imagine if the day was actually lazy, and wouldn't get up off the calendar? It stayed 9am for hours. Or it refused to change from Tuesday to Wednesday.. it was still night until noon because the day refused to get up out of bed..