Oh yes, Cardiology, I knew it was a conference about some medical topic. The conference has had is ups and downs. I have learned some valuable lessons that I plan to bring home to my patients. Unfortunately some of the lectures have been less than inspiring. The conference staff has asked attendees to shut off their cell phones or place them on silent out of respect to the speakers. Today two people in the audience had their cells phones go off during a couple of the talks. Those two individuals were the program co-directors. Oops!
Followers of this blog are well aware that my entries always supply lots of pictures and verbiage about food (today will not be an exception). Many ask me how I manage to stay relatively thin. First of all I exercise on a regular basis. For example this morning I was running on the hotel treadmill at 5 AM. Also, we don’t eat like this when we are at home. In fact my home meals are totally dictated by Patrice. If she is not home I don’t eat. On our trips she is also responsible for feeding the beast. When the morning lectures were coming to a close I alerted her by text, “Morning almost over, please prepare for lunch”.
When I arrived at the room Patrice told me that the nearby Lava Lava Beach Club (69-1081 Ku’uali’i Pl, Waikoloa Village, HI 96738) was walking distance and highly recommended. We took a circuitous route but finally found it in a lovely setting (seems like you can’t find anything here that isn’t beautiful), We had a wonderful meal (sorry, no pictures. I was too hungry to think of taking pictures) but there were lots of bugs that we had to fight for our food. As soon as any plate was cleared we asked the staff to remove it so as to limit the bug’s feeding frenzy. It was like the flies we encountered in Australia’s Outback. No that is an overstatement. Nothing compares to the Outback in Australia (and explains why it is the rare Aussie who has visited that area of the country).
Tonight we had a lovely dinner at Pueo’s Osteria (68-1845 Waikoloa Rd, Waikoloa Village, HI 96738) with Patrice’s friend, Robbie and her husband, Jim who moved here recently from Southern California. Robbie says she loves it here but misses Handel’s ice cream from Torrance. I told her we would have brought her some if we had known. Sorry, no pictures of our dinners. But how about a look at a couple of desserts?
Enough for now, I need to get to bed. My 5 AM treadmill appointment will be here soon.
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