Wednesday, February 3, 2010

What I Learned... in Kauai

In keeping with an earlier theme of this blog, I thought I would reflect on what I learned from my experiences in Kauai. The first thing I noticed was that a spouse's morning crabbiness can exist even in the Hawaiian Pacific time zone. That's four hours of difference, folks. Theoretically, 7:30 am in Kauai is almost noon in the Midwest! I had hypothesized that no crabbiness would exist, but the test proved my hypothesis to be false! Morning crabbiness can travel across land and sea!

I also discovered that my wife is has world class ability in the area of packing and organization. We haven't had the opportunity to travel since the diagnosis and I had heard her allude to her packing prowess, but I admit that I was skeptical. But I am now a true believer. I was amazed at how much she was able to fit in her travel bags!

And one last thing, there are a lot of chickens on Kauai. I'm not sure how they got there. I don't believe they are native to the island. But there are no predators to the chicken on the entire island so you can find chickens everywhere-- in forests, on mountain tops, and in parking lots.