We were awakened at 3:15 am by a very loud buzzing sound. I hadn't set the alarm clock, but in my early morning fog I almost ruined the clock trying to turn it off. Jerry finally unplugged it, then we realized it was the fire alarm. We peeked out the window and saw no activity outside, so I jumped back in bed and pulled a pillow over my head. Jerry, being the sensible one, got dressed and stepped outside to analyze the situation. My thoughts: if the alarm has been buzzing for 10 minutes and there are no fire trucks, it must be a false alarm. At Jerry's insistance, though, I got dressed and joined him outside. My, that alarm was loud! There were about 30 other guests milling around (obviously most of them were ignoring the alarm like I wanted to).
Eventually the fire department arrived, and went room to room throughout all four buldings, looking for the cause. When they determined it was a false alarm - perhaps caused by the current state of the remodeling - we had another problem. They could not turn the alarm off. Sugar Beach Resort no longer has a resident property manager, so they started working the emergency phone numbers posted on the office door. They located someone - in Honolulu, not much help there.
Finally a lady came running up with a key, she and the firemen went into the office and randomly flipped switches until the alarm stopped. The alarm had been on for about an hour and a half. I'm sure the neighbors were thrilled. We never did get back to sleep.
Another day in paradise :-)
We treated ourselves to breakfast at Stella Blues, then set out for another beach walk. Here's a photo of the outrigger canoes just north of the sea wall, and one of Jerry.
I noticed a square opening in the seawall, and wanted to satisfy my curiosity. In the back of the "cave" is a ladder, leading to...anyone? I'm stumped.
A young girl was playing in the sand; she must have had snow on her mind. Check out these sand people:
Lessons learned:
1) Never stay in a resort that's undergoing a remodel. We were told that they would be working on one building (out of four) at a time, but that wasn't true. While the plumbing and heat/air conditioning work was complete in our building, they were still working on the roof. Hammering began at 8 am and ended at 10 pm.
Half of the parking lot is covered with dumpsters and construction equipment.
Construction vehicles have taken over the tennis courts.
Here is a photo of one of the "stacks" undergoing sandblasting, stucco and repaint - there are guests on either side. Oh, joy.
The problem with the air conditioning I mentioned a few days ago? That turned out to be the entire building, not just our unit - and they couldn't work on the roof during the storm, so the A/C was out for days!
2) Don't trust the google blog software -- it creates unpredictible HTML, and the published blogs never look the same as the preview I see. Bleah. But this is a vacation, and there's only so much time I'm willing to spend tweaking things. I hate to say this, but I think FrontPage doess a better job.
We wanted to end the trip on a positive note, and since Jerry is fascinated with the surfers this trip, we returned to the north shore.
We were in the air before sunset,
so I'm cheating with an image from a few days ago:Today's book count: Began Tami Hoag's The Alibi Man.
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