Week # 9

Another week and only three more till we will be homebound.

The two pictures show some ladies doing pool exercises and a breakfast that Marlene prepared yesterday for some of our fellow volunteers.

I think she was showing off her B & B skills with the breakfast, she says she was advertising. Two of the couples are from Dallas, Oregon and the other from St Catherines, Ontario. All have been here before several times.

The ladies in the pool are all volunteers and it is the second left who you might recognize. I question how hard they are working during the day, if they have energy at quitting time to do exercises in the pool. The men are probably all in their rooms, exhausted!

Our speaker at Rotary on Wednesday told us about sea turtles! - two main kinds "hawksbill" and "green", they grow up to 250 pounds, up to three feet long (shell length), can hold their breath for up to three hours, and the hawksbill is an endangered species. That is why our speaker has a job, finding ways to promote population growth. Pretty interesting stuff, eh!

Other interesting news here is that mortgage foreclosures for March statewide are 523% ahead of a year ago. So if you were thinking of a real estate purchase in Hawiai, now might be the time.

No Rotary meeting next week, but on May 13th, a Group Study Exchange team from Argentina will be visiting, which I look forward to. Marlene and I are hosting a member of a GSE team from Brazil for two nights, at the end of May in Stratford.