Today is Miranda’s birthday, and we had a busy day planned.

I already posted the morning. The sad part is that while writing that post up, I got an e-mail from Mauna Kea Summit Adventures telling us that they had cancelled the tour for today and to call them. Not good. I told Miranda this, and expected heavy disappointment, but instead got a Call To Action. This birthday was going to be good, regardless.

That company was completely useless. I’m definitely glad that they cancelled, rather than take our money and take us on a bad trip – that’s good practice. But their next available tour was on February 16th, an entire week and a half away from now. What tourist is going to be able to reschedule for that long away? We hung up and started looking for something else to do.

We called the other summit company to see if they had space in the next few days. They were also booked until the 16th, but…weren’t planning on cancelling tonight. I had checked the MK weather and it supported our companies decision to cancel…soooo..what’s this other company’s plan? No idea, we got off the phone.

An hour and a half, and numerous phone calls later we have a new plan. We celebrate Miranda’s birthday tomorrow as well, do a dinner cruise tonight, a snorkel cruise tomorrow morning and drive up to MK tomorrow night for some awesome stargazing.

We looked at two dinner cruises. Body Glove and Spirit of Kona. Both our Big Blue guidebook, and a local we spoke with, told us that Spirit of Kona was not a great cruise, so we booked on Body Glove with only a half hour to spare!

The cruise was alright. Float out to Kealekekua Bay listening to a guy talk about the history of the coast (only barely interesting). Eat some alright appetizers. Drink an alright mai tai. Eat and alright dinner. Float back with the sunset. Saw another whale or two, which was awesome and made the trip much more worthwhile.

In the end, the best part of about the evening was spending it with Miranda.

We came back and played some Agricola before bed. 🙂

There are no photos in this post, because I’m going to sleep instead of dealing with photos. Dinner cruise photos tomorrow.

NIght!