To Spin a Yarn

Adventures come in all genres.  Yesterday it was the quest for the yarn shop.  The address, Suzie said was "2223 Puokei Road".  Armed with an I-phone, the rental car keys and a small crowd of 3 who had accepted this mission, we set out to find Suzie some yarn because the hands must always be busy.  Our crowd would have been larger but Mr. Bill decided that he would sit this one out.  So he did.  We headed south to the Lahaina area.  Right on Puokei Road, left?  We weren't so sure.  Let's look in the next mall area.  After a couple of tries, we called the number from the Yelp help.  Oh yes, we are next to the Barnes and Noble.  That's great because we are right next to it.  "I'm standing outside by a couple of mannequins".  There it is!  It had begun to rain but in Hawaii it's no problem since wet doesn't mean cold.  We felt excited to have completed our quest with such success.  However....it was not a yarn shop but a mercantile.  How could this be?  The lady thought perhaps the yarn shop had gone out of business and they had been assigned the old yarn shop number.  Dejected.  We headed home empty handed. 

After a couple of hours we arrived back at the apartment with not much of an explanation as to why we had been gone so long and returned empty handed.  "Binky's"  Suzie said after continuing to look at her phone.  Binky's carries yarn and they are close.  So we set out once again.  We turned left, returned right and back again.  "Turn into this parking lot" I was instructed.  Oh great!  Small parking lot.  Gonna be fun to get out of.  Suzie went upstairs to a little shop.  "Yarn?" the shopkeeper asked.  "Hawaii a little hot for yarn" was pretty much all she had to say.  We all laughed at that one.  True.  Wool hats might not be in high demand in the Islands.  Still not deterred, we were determined.  Off we went.  "Let's try this little mall" was a suggestion.  Wait.  Grant was on the lookout. "There it is".  Yep.  There it was.  Binky's.  Right, almost directly across, from our apartment.  Walking distance.  No need for a rental car, an I-phone or the $4.27 per gallon gasoline. 

The yarn was 100% wool, hand dyed and very beautiful.  We all felt resolve.  The resolve of the quest that created laughter and an adventure we're not likely to forget.

Aloha!