DAY 49 - Eddie would go

We sort of decided to go to the beach Cameron had shown us, but after a lot of sneezing, phlegm complaints and long naps it transpired that Sarah was getting a cold, and we decided to not exert ourselves today and stay home, especially since the weather was not looking too great again. I was able to catch up with the blog and some freelance work while we watched a cool documentary about Hawaiian surfer Eddie Aikau, so it was a productive but not really exciting day. In the evening we were invited to join our hosts and The Germans at a little bonfire they regularly have at the bottom of the garden, to drink, socialize and roast marshmallows. We had quite spent our budget on alcohol the previous night and the hosts weren’t as generous with theirs as they had been on our welcome-meal so we stayed largely sober (something that cannot be said of Lori in particular). The conversation rather annoyingly mostly circled around stuff such as celebrity culture, movies I hadn’t seen or lots of exclamations of disgust at all my favourite experiences in Hawaii, like the warm ponds (‘Euurgh! Flesh-eating virus! Bacteria!’), the sweat lodge (‘Ewww! And you have to hug everyone afterwards??’) or hitchhiking (‘When I wanna go somewhere, I wanna go RIGHT NOW’) so I wasn’t enjoying myself too much and through all the recent waking-up-early felt quite tired and went to bed soon. (The marshmallows were good though.)