Thursdays are our Preparation Day for this transfer period which goes through the end of June (six weeks) when our schedule will switch and Wednesday will be our Preparation Day. This P-Day (as it’s called in missionary parlance) was the first one since we’ve arrived where we didn’t have to make a trip into Honolulu for anything. As a result, we’ve had a nice, calm day off from our normal activities. It has been a delightful day, actually.

One of my responsibilities is to maintain the sister missionary bicycles. Two of then have had a recent spate of flat rear tires. I patched both of them last Tuesday and both tires were flat again yesterday afternoon. The tires themselves were getting pretty bare and the tubes have been patched multiple times. Time for new tires and inner tubes. Ace Hardware has them in stock. Total bill for two tires, two inner tubes, and two hand grips: $85. That’s why we patch as much as possible. I get reimbursed for the maintenance costs, but want to keep the expenses down as much as possible.

We were planning to do a Facetime call with our daughter and family in Chandler, Arizona (grandson Jackson’s birthday is today …. happy birthday, Jackson!). We finally worked out a schedule to do the call at 4:30pm our time  (7:30pm Chandler time). So after lunch we did a little local sight seeing. We drove north then west along the Kamehameha Highway past the Turtle Beach resort and to the town of Haleiwah. That place is a fairly major tourist stop with plenty of shops selling surfboards, shave ice (for some reason here it’s called shave ice rather than shaved ice. I haven’t had one, maybe if I did I’d know the difference. It is Very Popular with the tourists), and bikinis. This is a one-lane-each-direction road with plenty of traffic both directions. We got back just in time to make the Facetime call.

The picture was taken on the way towards the Turtle Bay resort in a neighboring town that has a plethora of food trucks and eating establishments, including Wili Wili Plantation.

This has been very pleasant day.