Today was our “Preparation Day” … the day that we clean the house, do our shopping, do the laundry, go sightseeing, or occasionally sleep in. We don’t have a shift at the Visitors’ Center on our Preparation Day, the one day a week that we have “off”.

So, after doing a small amount of housecleaning (I vacuumed the floors; Nina did the laundry yesterday), we drove along the north shore past the Turtle Bay Resort and stopped for a while on Sunset Beach. There was a storm a ways off shore and nice huge waves were coming in and crashing on the beach. I took some video that I’m trying to figure out how to get it onto YouTube. That used to be very easy from the old iMovie app in iLife, but with the latest release, it just isn’t working like it used to. It’s pretty frustrating, actually! Right now the problem is that it doesn’t use the right password when the app is trying to log into YouTube. It doesn’t use the password that I supply for some strange reason. So, for right now all I can do is include a (large-sized) picture which I also can no longer skinny down before posting.

This afternoon Nina and I attended the first session of training to volunteer at the Polynesian Cultural Center. We’ll complete the training tomorrow afternoon and then we’ll be qualified to assist at the luau’s held nightly (except Sunday) at the PCC. The benefit for us is that on the nights we volunteer, we get a free meal. We’re scheduled to volunteer three times in May, so that’s three nights we won’t have to do any cooking or cleanup. That sounds good to me!

Because we haven’t done the job-specific training (that happens tomorrow), I’ve no idea what we’ll actually be doing on the nights we’re scheduled to be there. I suspect it has to do, in part, with taking tickets. I’m sure there are other tasks. More on that in a future blog post after our first experience on May 1st!

I did get a haircut today at the “Haircut Shop” in Laie. It was about twice as expensive as what I’ve been paying back in Pocatello, but it looks OK and will last for five or six weeks. As usual, hair is highly overrated. I don’t want mine back in the resurrection!

Check out Nina’s report on the day on her blog at https://seashellsandseaglass.wordpress.com/. I’ve also put a link to her blog at the top of this page in the menu bar.

Tomorrow, Friday, and Saturday we’ll be on the morning shift and opening up the Center at 9am. Wonder who we’ll meet this week?

So, I go to post this and the hosting company is having issues and my blog is down. Further, it’s bedtime.

Life today is a bit convoluted … but all is well in Zion!