We were in Honolulu for about a week. Our friends, the Agbalogs and the Balaticos, graciously opened their beautiful home to us for the duration of our stay. They really made us feel welcome and comfortable the entire time.

While in Honolulu, Peter took the chance to visit his office while I spent some time at the Ala Moana Beach Park. We toured the island, ate at the restaurants on our "LIST OF PLACES or FOODS TO EAT IN HONOLULU", enjoyed some time with old friends at MCC. We even got to have a BBQ party at Gabby and Carla's house in Mililani - beautifully and lovingly renovated and decorated by the couple, you would think that you were inside Pier 1 Imports. :-)

Shopping was limited to just buying new piano music for Church at Logos and some books from Barnes and Noble or Borders.

We returned to Maui on Wednesday evening - 2 hours early because we were able to take the 6p.m. flight instead of our 7:30p.m. flight. Took the cab and got home to a newly carpeted house. The bedrooms were a bit dusty but the kitchen, my goodness, was filled with dead little black insects (the one you find in bags of rice). Apparently they multiply if not taken cared of. There were millions of them scattered all over the kitchen floor, the countertops and the cabinets/cupboards. Tonight I found some live ones still inside the bags of spaghetti noodles. I had to empty our pantry to make sure we get all of them otherwise they will multiply and move into the new carpet. Aargh! All that work I did to make sure everything is inside the cabinets and closets so they won't get dusty, hah! D*** those little bugs.

Learned a lesson here: the more you try to avoid doing something the more you will end up doing it.