Coral in a Frosted Flakes Box

After a frenetic rush to get packed, load up the computer with all the mandatory work files, send off the last emails to my team, and download all the directions to the vegan foods store, the B&B, and of course, Costco, Bob and I headed off to the airport and had a nice, uneventful flight over to Honolulu and then Kahalui, Maui.  We had a two hour layover in Honolulu, and while we were wandering around, I spotted the agricultural inspection station and it reminded me of another time we'd come through, with 6 year old Marie.  On that trip, we had all cleared our luggage through ag inspection and then got in line for security.  Marie was unusually fidgety and agitated, and just before it was her turn to go through the security metal detector, she turned around and ran as fast as she could away from security and down a long corridor, with no explanation.  We were all baffled as we stepped out of line and took off after her.  Finally she stopped at a trash can, threw her little box of frosted flakes cereal away, and then casually started walking back to security.   When we asked her what that was all about, she kept shushing us until we cleared security, and then she admitted her felonious act:  she was trying to smuggle some bits of coral she'd collected at the beach back to the mainland in her little cereal box!  Fearing she would be caught and imprisoned, she decided at the last minute not to risk it, and she disposed of her contraband.  Funny the way the mind of a 6 year old works!

We arrived at our home for the next 8 days - the Wild Ginger Falls B&B - at about 5 PM this afternoon.  It is an adorable little hale in a tropical setting, complete with banana and papaya trees, perched adjacent to a creek bed which is dry today but appears to have seen some action a couple of days ago, judging by the ponding around the boulders.  Just across the creek rises a 40 foot high chiseled basalt wall covered in lush growth, including some really cool banyon tree roots which stretch from the top to the bottom of the rock face.  By the time we got settled in, it was too dark to take pictures, but I will do that tomorrow and post them for you to admire.

Bob and I are settling in for the night to do a little work (have to pay the bills somehow, so we can really enjoy ourselves on our next adventure to Croatia and Italy, coming up in about three weeks).  More later - Good night!