On Wednesday, the original plan was to drive down and see some of the sites of downtown Honolulu. Since I was still feeling quite sick (although not as bad as the day before perhaps), we decided on a different plan: drive to the not-quite-as-far town of Kailua and buy Mindy some probiotic pills. What are probiotics, you may be asking? They are pills full of healthy bacteria to repopulate your intestines with good bacteria in order to help keep the bad in check. My dad and Kevin had given me a priesthood blessing the previous night, and afterwards I really felt impressed that I should start taking probiotics. You can really only get them in a health food store, which Punaluu has none of, so we decided to try Kailua. While we were there, we thougth we'd check out t
he Kailua beach, which my guidebook had proclaimed one of the best in the nation, and which is very popular with windsurfers and kiteboarders. 
The drive down (and back) was VERY uncomfortable for me--sitting in the car was horrib
le on my tailbone, and my coughing was really bad. But, it was all worth it because my digestive tract began to improve basically immediately after taking those probiotics. And it was fun to watch the kiteboarders too. 
When we got back from Kailua, we went to BYU Hawaii to watch their basketball team play--well, really we went to watch the pep band, which my brother-in-law Brian and his son Alex played in. It was fun, but I had to stand in the back for a lot of it due to those same tailbone issues. BYUH won and made over 100 points, so they were handing out free ice cream at the end. We didn't want to wait in line, so instead we went and got McFlurries next door. Okay, not the most authentic Hawaiin food choice, but they were still yummy.
2 comments:
I know I don't comment every time, but I LOVE your Hawaii blog posts. I'm going to be sad when they stop because who knows when we will get more Mindy adventures? Complete with tailbone pain?!?!
And I totally believe you about your tailbone hurting when you cough. When I throw up the bottoms of my feet itch. I don't know why. But the tailbone thing made sense to me.
Wow; I've never heard of probiotics. Glad you were able to get some so you could feel a little better.
Also, pep band = very cool. I always liked playing at basketball games.
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