Friends - always there when you need them

It has been raining ALL week... by Friday I was getting kind of depressed being cooped up for so long but then, thank the lord, Tim, a friend from back home in Michigan, called and invited me out on Saturday.
So Saturday afternoon I took the bus down to Kapaa and met him at small town coffee. He has a nice new scooter/moped and we cruised up the mountain for a little sightseeing. All the waterfalls in the mountains are flowing hard now after all the rain and we could see at least 6 or 7 in the distance. Lovely.
Then back down the hill we went to find somewhere to eat dinner. Tim suggested a little Italian place he'd seen so I said sure though I wasn't that hungry so I probably wasn't going to eat much. As we pulled up there are two other scooters parked outside so we think, "yeah, this will be a nice place." We head inside. As we walk in, we instantly notice everything is spotless, there are wine glasses on every table and it's generally a very formal cafe. (Though you wouldn't know from the outside!) A waiter gives us a table and we sit down with the menus feeling a bit awkward... We look inside the menus. Yes, as suspected, just the appetizers are $9.95 each. We discuss the situation and when the waiter comes back around we announce to him, "We've decided this isn't our scene." He almost looks relieved as we walk out the door laughing. :)
We head back down the street to a little place called Burrito Head which a friend of Tim's works. I got a mini quesadilla which was perfect for me at the time for $3! Oh yes. We hung around there for a while chatted with some locals and some tourists, made some calls, and discussed what to do next. We had been planning to go over to Blossoming Lotus to a DJ party at 9 but we go over there at 8 and the flyer says 10 so we head up to chill at Tim's for a bit.
When we come back down, we stand around for a little bit for the party to start. When it got started we went in and I stood back and surveyed the place while Tim went and danced. He tried to get me to dance but I wouldn't... it's just not really my thing. I'm more of a "corner person" as Sierra calls it and that's the way I like it. Just because I'm not out on the floor doesn't mean I'm not having a good time. After a while I moved upstairs and watched the dance floor from the railing. There were some pretty good beats, and I was moving quite a bit (for me) by 1am when it was winding down and we hit the road. The skies were finally clear and the stars up in Kapahi at Tim's were just fantastic. I saw a couple shooting stars that night.
In the morning we took a 4wheeler down the hill where Tim's staying and gathered some lilikoi (passion fruit) for on top of our pancakes. Yummy.
After breakfast Tim scootered me down the road and dropped me off at some property where my neighbor Matt was to teach a fire building class...

More on that and pictures later. Got to get some sleep.