HI Day 1 and 2, Tom Fanoe

Hawaii, Day 1

Annals of Medicine

THB's right knee is still sore a month plus after returning from Turkey. He's now in HI, icing the knee after a long day in transit and a pool swim with the twins in the afternoon. MRI scheduling mishap has not cleared up In meantime, the Radiology dept 4.5 minutes from the loft has not reached out!!

Department of Remediation

THB and DB decide to no longer use Emergency Restoration, first hired by  our neighbor whose burst pipe caused the tsunami, and hired the company sent by State Farm to document the damage. The new company, Dansel, seems miles more professional and they arrived Saturday morning to start the remediation of the damage. Here are the pics:

they have sealed off the damage from the undamaged

removed the damp part of wall

set up the right machines 

Not shown: ther have also taken up some of the flooring. More floor removal tomorrow will help us estimate how much needs to be replaced. We are still hoping to limit the repairs rather than replace the entire floor. 

One of our upstairs neighbors, MM, is "managing" the project while we are in HI and doing a great job!!

How to occupy the twins after a very early and long flight to Maui? Yep, get them in front of animals.

KM captured THB doing his thing prepping for a future post

KM arranged a tasting for us after our tour. This is the charcuterie platter (no pic of many goat cheese tastes or the chocolate truffles for dessert) - all excellent)

A three bedroom condo Coral Tree Residence, perfect for 6. Our unit wasn't ready yet so we hung out one of the pools, THB testing the twins on their knowledge of snorkel gear, they seem ready for calm shoreline snorkels 

Hawaii, Day 2

Department of Remediation (cont'd):  MM is the man! Floors that appeared damaged were deplanked, fans and humidifiers set up and now there is a 3 day drying out period. All those machines running day and night and we are getting a good night's sleep on Maui. 

Breakfast on the deck for THB and C

No snorkeling today, still strong currents and the high winds of yesterday loaded the shoreline with sand. Maybe tomorrow if we go to the beach early, the twins might get their first salt water snorkel. Backup plan: they get to ride their boogie boards on a flat ocean.

• ow text  is from Tom F's son Ankar, as Tom passed away recently.  Pretty sure Tom grew up in Gonzalez, as he once told us he held the school's record in the 100. Also, Tom and I exchanged e-mails over the last few years as he help lead the Red Tab Foundation (always a good spot to make a donation)...thx, Ralph

  
  

  "The funeral will be on June 27th. The service will be at St Theodore’s Church in Gonzales starting at 10am. The burial at the Gonzales cemetery right after the service.  There will be a Celebration of Life at Corral de Tierra Country Club from 1-4pm.  Spread the word to his friends. Anker