So this is a first for us. After going on these golf trip for the past 7 years or so we may come back to Honolulu without playing a round of golf. The rain, which I thought had blown over from the Big Island to Oahu, has apparently stuck around and on Sunday Mike, Ted and John got rained out. We took a break on Monday to visit the east side and today we drove all the way to Big Island Country Club only to sit in the clubhouse for half an hour and then call it quits. We determined that even though we came here specifically to play golf, we would rather not play and be comfortable as opposed to play in the rain and be cold, wet and miserable. To make matters even worse, I didn’t even bring a rain jacket. I only had a sweatshirt (which is possibly the least rain resistant garment you can have other than a terry cloth bath robe).

It was so cloudy you couldn’t even see the mountains

Notice the huge puddles (water hazards?) on the driving range?

So what do you do when you go on a golf trip and the weather doesn’t cooperate? Well if you’re us, we just headed back to Waimea and played cards in Starbucks for awhile. Yeah, yeah, I know. We didn’t have to come all the way to the Big Island just to do this, but let’s face it, would we have done this if we were in Kaneohe?

Couldn’t we have done this at home?

So for the rest of the day, we just hung around the Waimea house and played video games, napped and watched TV. All in all it was a great afternoon. Very relaxing and very mellow (after all, in the words of my father-in-law, this is the Big Island).

Speaking of which, we later met up with my father-in-law for dinner. We went to a little joint called Huli Sue’s that I read about several years ago, but just never got around to going to. Honestly, I wished we waited a little longer. The food was pretty mediocre at best. For a BBQ joint, the pork ribs and the brisket was very tough and the short ribs were tender but lacked in flavor. They did offer 4 types of sauce to dip them in but in my humble opinion they were all too sweet for my liking. I don’t think we’ll be going there again anytime soon.

Purveyors of Fine Grindz may be a slight exaggeration

The famous corn pudding in the upper left was by far the best thing on the plate

Mike’s plate of pork ribs and short ribs

That’s my father-in-law behind Ted