We started off the day with a drive out to check out some beaches. We ended up traveling out to Kahului for a couple of beaches and ended at Kihei. It was really nice to put our toes in the surf and walk around without a care in the world. We had lunch in Kihei in a café that served us sautéed mahi mahi, and after a couple of cocktails we hit went swimming one more time and then headed back to the Underwoods’ place.
They took us to a flatbread pizza place in the hippie town of Paia which had some enormous, delicious pizzas. My favorite was covered with goat cheese, but they had plenty of options on the other pizzas to keep us interested. There was a waiter that Alex kind of liked named Seth who I was interested in meeting, but unfortunately he wasn’t working that evening. We kicked off the dinner with a salad full of exotic ingredients – which caused me some problems later on. But the evening was great and we left with full stomachs. I drove one of the cars back home with Kuniko and Susan, and then we came back inside and played some ping pong and got ready to watch a movie. It was just about that time that I felt a little bit of itchiness on my arm and leg. I went into our bathroom to look in a mirror, and I could see that I was getting some kind of allergic reaction starting. This has happened before about a year ago, but this was a particularly strong reaction. I tried to go out and talk with everyone, but I almost passed out all of the sudden. After causing a general panic, I decided to lay down and just wait for the reaction to pass. Susan gave me some Benedryl to try to stop the reaction, but I don’t think it had any effect. After about an hour, I felt much better and the hives disappeared. It was a little bit of a scary situation for a while there, but then everything was fine. Who knows what caused it – but I didn’t have any other problems like that the rest of the trip.
