I didn’t end up finding sushi. I tried, but the place I went to was closed. So, I ended up going to a nearby Thai restaurant instead (not just any Thai restaurant but the first Maui restaurant we ate at back in 2004). I ordered the Beef Thai Garlic and MAN it was good! I think I might go back there tonight and try something else. YUM!
When I got back to my hotel after dinner, I heard some singing coming from somewhere nearby. So I walked toward the sound to investigate, and discovered that it was coming from inside the main resort building. As I approached the stairs, a guy standing at the bottom turned toward me and said “Hi.”
I said “Hi, how are you?”
He said “Good, are you just out for a walk?”
“Yeah, I heard the music and I was coming over to see what’s going on.”
“Oh, we’re about to have a Bible study, would you like to join us?”
“Sure.”
“Are you here on vacation?”
“Actually I just moved here.”
“Oh, us too, where’d you move from?”
“Portland, Oregon.”
“Oh! We just moved from Medford Oregon three weeks ago! There are actually quite a few people from Oregon that go here!”
So up the stairs we went and we sat down in the third row just in time for the preachin’ to start. The preacher, Dom, was talking about Philippians 1, what with Paul chained to Praetorian Guards and “He who began a good work in you will be faithful to complete it,” etc.
After the service I talked to Bill (the 50-something guy I met outside) for quite a while. He was a missionary down in Mexico for two years taking care of disabled kids, and as that was wrapping up he got a job offer to do construction here on Maui. Part of the apparently incredible job offer was a brand new 1800 square foot house in Wailuku for only $275k. Amazing! So they moved over here, and they’re staying at a hotel until their house is done being built. After a while, Bill said that he’d like to introduce me to Dom. So he grabbed Dom’s attention and did just that.
Dom was really nice, he asked me a bit about myself (where I’m from, what I do, why did I move, did I go to church in Portland, etc). So then he says he’d like to get together with me over coffee sometime if I’d be interested. I said sure, so we made plans to meet at the Starbucks/Jamba Juice at 8am on May 13th... So I’ve already met some people here, very cool! Shortly after that, I took off and walked back to my hotel room. Dom said, “It was nice meeting you, see you on Sunday!” I was very excited about meeting people here, so I called Kara up to tell her the good news even though it was past midnight over there. She said she was still awake, but there’s no way she was... I felt like I was talking to a zombie (which is understandable... since she loves to eat brains... I mean because it was so late!) Anyway, after I talked Kara back to sleep, I read for a little while and went to bed.
pretty cool,
funny how things happen.
Talk more about the Thai place, I like Thai.
I like thai too. There was no way that Kara was still awake.
That's a great story. Amazing how small a world it is sometimes.
I'll bet Kara dreampt that she was talking to you while eating brains.
Kara may or may not have dreamed that, but now I will... thanks, Scott.
So how did the meeting go with Dom? Please extrapolate in your next entry to please the Dave!
No meeting with Dom... He had to cancel because he's at an Oahu hospital with his baby daughter that's having seizures! We're tentatively scheduled for sometime next week. Poor baby!