Paradise Report Day 5: Mauna Kea Beach Hotel

 

Mauna Kea Bay is gorgeous.  I moved hotels yesterday and as much as I loved the Marriot, I to love the Mauna Kea Bay!  The minute I walked in an looked out back the Cove was calling for me to come home. 

Everything about that cove just said, come on Billy b, come to us! 

And all the sceneries an views were kick ass!

However for me it was the water, that caught and kept my eye.  I mean it just went on for ever and people where out and about frolicking in it.  Paddling boarding.  Wave diving.  Skin surfing.  The Bay gives off this peaceful serenity.  I was in love at first site. 

The Mauna Kea Beach Hotel is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and we are lucky to be here and be a part of it!!! I tried to take a picture of the time line, but I failed.  I am but a humble accountant not a photographer. 

The hotel is very unique in its design.  And o course I was put on the very far end away from everything, just like in the office.  the CEO thinks I am to loud, and you know what he is right. 

A little peak at the pool.  I knew sooner or later, I would be taking a little dip in there. 

 

 

Into the room we go!

 



 



Nice big bed....

Ocean access directly from the room, you just have to go by those trees... it is pretty freaking easy access. 

Nice work station. I do freaking love this thing.  I was thinking I could use one of these at home.

Oh and a mini bar!  Thank god it isn't stocked, b/c we know sooner or later I would get into that shit. 

More bed.... I don't know why, I do know they have turn down service here, b/c I couldn't figure out how the fuck the pillows got off the bed last night. 

From the Balcony =) or the patio, I guess outside my room!

 Look I am on TV!!!!!   The TV is hidden in the desk work station.  I really do like that.

A little snacky snack for me.  I ate the bread.  It has been hard to be perfect, I am probably running 70%.  So many good foods.  Thank god last night we had gluten free options for dessert.  Its not paleo but close.

And Well, I think that is pretty breath taking =)

Overall, trip is going good.  I am having a good time.  Getting ready to go swim and frolic in the little sun we have today. I wish I was better on my food.  Really I do. 75% isn't bad, but it could be better.  I was targeting 80%.  I know I am making a lot choices I wouldn't make at home b/c I have that, I am on the island voice and you know you won't do this at home, but I do get scared that I can't get back to a clean diet when I get home.  But I will.  I have to, it is so much easier when you don't have to make decisions.  I will get better at it.  I just have to remember I never want to feel like I did 3 months ago.  I never want to be that big again.  My size now well still big is ok, and manageable, but not who I want to be either and to get to the end of this road, I have to make good choices.

ok, I am going to go try to talk myself to swimming in that water again....  Aloha!

Paradise Report Day 4: Helllllllllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooo SUN!

 

 



 

 

 Really there is no better feeling in paradise then waking up and looking out your window in the morning and see the beautiful blue skies of paradise, the blue blue water, and the sand.  Everything looks absolutely perfect.  It makes you feel glad to be alive. 

The reason for everything being so a live and wonderful is because our god the sun has come out to see us.  It is no longer hiding behind rain and clouds.  It is out and shining and making paradise, well paradise.  Of course, it also calls to you.  The sun does.  You want to be out in it, playing in it.  Laying in it.  Being active in it and being lazy in it too. 

All you want it is to sit back and enjoy it.  You try but work won't leave you alone. Every time you step on the elevator someone else calls you with someone else problem to fix.

Finally, after three phone calls you get to breakfast and you just sit there and watch the sun make everything look so warm and awesome.  Of course you eat your paleo breakfast, it is the only meal you have been 100% true on.  You will miss this ommie below with the pulled pig, it was a very tasty dish. 

Finally, you boss calls, tell you to go get in the sun for a few hours and then we can review an agreement later that afternoon.  So you do what he says, you go out to the sun and you sit there  for three hours and read your Stephen King and just love the fact that you got at least one beautiful perfect day in paradise.  You also get burned to a crisp but that is par for the course for your first real sun of the year. 

So far it has been a super relaxing and enjoyable trip to Paradise =) 

Paradise Report Day 3: Sun and Sushi

It took till about 2 P.M. Hawaii time for the Rain and clouds to finally start to go away, but at long last they did just that, the total started going away. 

Day 3 in paradise was a lot of phone calls back to the mainland.  It was a lot of looking at my laptop and contemplating if it was a mistake to come over early, because all I was doing was sitting in the room and working.  However, as soon as that Sun started to poke its little head out from behind the clouds, I know without a doubt, the decision I have made was the correct one.  Because it really doesn't get any more beautiful than the Islands when it is sunny. 

The sun struggled to find its way out from behind the clouds.  The clouds were relentless, but our old friend the Sun just kept on coming!

 

 As soon as I saw the sun, I couldn't help but start trying to take pictures of it.  As we all know being a creature of the sun, I need to get as much of it as I possibly can.

And of course,  I suited up and went to lay in it.  Because I has to work on my tan =)  No really, I was going to be pissed if I went home without getting any sun. 

It is really lovely around the hotel, when it isn't all wet.

I thought about getting in the hammock, but we all know how that would end, with me face down in a pile of dirt, not thanks, I will pass. 

After spending a little over an hour outside, I headed back to the room to clean up for dinner and my walk. 

When the sun started breaking through I thought the clouds looked pretty cool.  My picture here doesn't really show it, of course I was snapping and walking b/c I turned my walk to and from dinner into a workout.  30 minutes on the way there (I did loops around the shopping center) and 15 on the way home. 

But ya, the walk was very scenic.  Again, I am shit at taking photos, but I thought it was really nice. 

Look at the blue sky, wow!  Makes you thankful to be alive!!!

I really like the cloud in front of that mountain, I thought that was really cool.  I don't really like the red truck, but oh well, it snuck in my picture. 

I just can't express how beautiful I think that sky is even with the clouds and the sun back there trying to come back through. 

This sushi place kicks ASS!  Really, I went here before with Deb, CP, and Coach Jana and it was awesome. I was very excited to come back.  However, the company was much better that time around.  Don't get me wrong I like myself, and all but those three are awesome!!!! 

AHHHHHHA!  There is its!  Fully breaking through and it was warm as could be.  Hello Sun!  you beautiful Son of a Bitch! Welcome to Hawaii!!!

As I was walking I was like who is that long dude with the tiny head!  Then I realized it was my shadow.  =)  I just thunk it was cool

THE 69 ROLL - no idea why it is called the 69, but it tasted great.  Ya, um... The... well... uh.

The Dragonfly Roll  was pretty fucking bad ass too.  Very tasty.  At first I was like the waitress did me wrong with this, but when I really got into it, I was no, no she did not, this is fucking awesome and it was. 

Anyone who knows me and has eaten fishies with me, knows that my favorite roll of them all is the golden California and this one did not disappoint.  And yes, I housed 3 rolls and they were awesome!  And no I didn't feel the least bit guilty about it!  The sushi was top notch as I remembered it.  I am thinking about going back again, but... I might not.  I am pretty full from lunch still.  I might just sit here and watch the sun go down and get a little room service and watch a movie.

Oh and if you were wondering, yes, as always with sushi I made a big mess.  But, I didn't get anything on my shirt! So that was huge!!!!  Good for me! 

Better yet, Day 3, like Day 2 was a really good day and I was super happy to here!!!! 

Paradise Report: Day 2 - The Ole Lomi Lomi....

What do you do when it rains in paradise?  Is it still paradise?  When your only plan is to rest and relax and do little to nothing else planned but sit next to the pool?    

well, I'll tell you.  You get a massage and you relax however you can.  So, that is exactly what I did!

First I called the spa and after I got over the shock of the cost of an 80 minute massage you book your appointment.  Because your gonna get the massage no matter what the cost, that decision was made when the rains came.  Then you say fuck it and you take a little nap.  Nothing wrong with an hour long vacation nap, is there?  Some say "SI!" Some say "NO!"  

You go to the spa 40 minutes early, because you want to give yourself plenty of time.  After all you didn't come to the spa without the intention of taking a steam.  Did you?  Well of course not.  So you check in and hit the locker room.  You have to yourself.  You choose locker 21 in honor of RBR racing.  You trade your flip flops for the spa ones but you do know why, you do that.  Then you strip and you march over to the steam room grabbing a towel I root and you have that to yourself too.  So you go in lay out your towel and take a steam!  

15 minutes later and some deep relaxing breathes you figure you should shower up for your lomi lomi.  It's your 2nd shower is the day but you don't mind.  You choose the handicap for space.  It's huge and has a chair in it.  You take a nice long cool shower.  You turn and look at the door and you see hand prints.  Not in the steam but the type you see when someone done a piss pore job of washing the glass.  The type doc burkle wouldn't stand for when washing cars.  However it isn't memories of car washing that grabs the eye of your mind.  It's something else.  It's your crafty minds eye putting together something deeper and darker, but what you don't know yet.  Something... something?

You finish the shower and head to get your robe out of ole 21, but there isn't a robe, so you steal one from 15.  It was dealers choice when coming so which one I pick matters and take matters not.  

I put the robe on and it fits.  This is strange because normally they don't. Something must be wrong.  Then the you down and realize your stomach and boys aren't covered at all and are out for the entire world to see.  Hmm...  So you get back into ole 22 and pull on your shorts... Why not.  You don't fit in the robe so you have to improvise.  You think nothing of it until your in the waiting room and your realize its co-Ed and just because your the only dude doesn't mean there aren't chicas.  So here comes the shame again.  You can't fit into a robe like normal people.  You feel conscious but you say fuck in here to relax.  So that is what you will do.  You think about the hand prints again and your steam.  It was a nice steam.  

That is when Leilani comes to get your for the ole Lomi Lomi.  The message is good.  Not great, it's not dead and hard enough for it to be great.  You like a lot of pressure and the the LL just isn't that.  It's good nice and Leilani is a trip.  She talks to me aa out other worlds.  She talks to me about government hidden secret teleportation.  She tells me about how it's very possible the missing planes in Asia might have crossed over into another universe.  I love it because of love me a good govt. conspiracy.   I also love the multi-verse.  After all there are other worlds than these gunslinger, there are other worlds than these ;-). She spoke of the spirit being stuck in the human body and I was like that sounds about right!  I eat that shit up because I am on board with that.  I do think our souls get trapped in this time and place to learn something, something we need to know, something we must learn.  This made the massage all the more enjoyable and even if I didn't love the ole lomi lomi, I did love my massage.  

After being rubbed head to toe with oil.  It was recommend by Leilani that I go have me a steam to clear my pores and I was thinking, yes because there is something about the steam.  

So I go and hit the steam.  I sit there and I'm looking out the door and I'm thinking about the hand prints from the other door.  Then I start think what exactly did I see in that steam.  I know the answer was nothing but I thought the concept might be cool.  What if, I had seen something in the steam.  Like a sent of faint hand prints.... What if they wanted to tell me something.   What if?  As I showered again I Kept thinking what a cool concept it would be to have this man meet or see something in the steam and then see the hands, and perhaps the hands want to show you something and your think about describing the man head to toe in the steam with every pore oozes sweat and seeing something terrible but trying to convince himself there was nothing there when there actually was and this is house ideas and stories are born perhaps... 

And that was pretty much my 2nd day in paradise.  Add in a burger and sweet tatter dies at an Italian restaurant for dinner.  A little shopping and watching the new Robocop and you have your day :-)

It's actually harder to eat paleo on the road than I thought because temptation is everywhere!  You can't avoid it.  It is literally, every where!  I ate cheesecake last night ok!  But it's ok.  I'll do better today, already have. Going for sushi tonight!  Very excited!

Paradise Report Day 1: Arrival, Hotel, and Walking the Grounds

 
 
 
Couldn't be happier with the view from the room.  It is pretty stunning.  I could wish for a bit more Sun though =)
 



 

 

The reason this picture is important?  Because not only did I fit into the Nissan Ultima, but, the seat belt went on without a hitch.  No extender needed!  That was a great feeling.  Because its been since May of 2013 since I drove a car without a seatbelt extender =) 

The hotel room is really nice, I like it! 

They didn't have the king bed though :(  That is ok, I like to rotate between these two.  One is for napping and one is for the night sleeping.  :D

Since it has been pretty overcast, I have been just chilling in the room most of the first day.  Don't get me wrong I ventured out for lunch.  Had some coffee.  Found the hot tub.  Made a spa reservation. Massage is at 3 PM.  An 80 minute job called the Hawaiin Lomi Lomi Massage they are mixing some hot stones in as well.

Oh shoot... forgot the picks from the ride over from the air port. 

See the hotel is nice =)

But yes, it just a wee bit cloudy :(

 

 

After I went out for lunch, when I got back to the room to drop off some stuff.  I had a gift waiting for me.

That is pretty cool right!  That fruit is freaking awesome!!!

Special little note just for me!  Thank Deb for all your help!  You are a rockstar.

Woke up this a.m. and took a few picks from the balcony.

 

Then ventured down for breakfast. 

 

Had me a Kaula Pig Ommie, with some more MEAT!  Paleo Breakfasts can be so kick ASS!

I know what you are thinking.  Mr. b that is a bit to much meet.  So, I went and got some fruit.

Then, I walked the grounds. 

 

See this is where I am staying =)

 

However, trouble struck when I was out walking.  When I pulled my camera to take pictures, I must have lost my room key.  Oh nooooo.  I got back was locked out. 

 

I turned around and heading back to the other side to go back to the front desk for help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am just chilling and relaxing today.  Like I said going to the spay later.  Then I will hit the pool.  I think I am going out for the sushi tonight.  That sounds pretty good right?  There is also an Italian joint across the street.  So maybe I will go there.  Where ever I go I will be walking =)  Maybe, I will go have a nap by the pool!