Shipping Items

Shipping Items was Originally Posted on June 28, 2004 by lavarock

Sometimes it amazes even me that I can come up with pus like this for subjects of the Blog… I take a subject and find similar items which relate to it.

Items = more than 1 item
Shipping = topics of this blog

Thus, this blog look at more than one type of shipping.

The first shipping item involves the Webpage I am creating. I had hoped to have had it online by now but am still wrestling with the shipping module.

The second item involves my receipt of an item I had shipped to me. That item was a copy of Quickbooks, the accounting software. I decided to buy Quickbooks for my business and found a very decent price on Ebay for the current versions. I received it a lot sonner than I expected.

The shopping cart software I’m using can integrate to Quickbooks, so I don’t have to re-enter all sorts of data.

Finally, a cruise ship owned by Norwegian Cruse Lines (Pride of Aloha) continued its trek across the Pacific to its new home. Stopping in Hilo yesterday and Kona today, it’s on its way to Honolulu and I was part of the Kona festivities!

I learned a while back, to be careful when asked if I have some free time. Once I ended up at the Kona Airport to greet arriving Air Canada passengers on an inaugural flight to Kona. Then, I agreed to help the Kona Coffee Council on a weekend project, THEN found out I was help pick up trash along the road

This time I redily agreed when told I was to help greet the pride of Alona (associated story from the Hilo Greeting http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Jun/27/bz/bz20a.html).

I joined the group at the Kona warf this morning at 7am and soon was on a Zodiac Boat being ferried out to the ship. We took leis of plumeria flowers and as we aproached the ship, pulled the petals off the string and topped the waves with the yellow and white petals. We had to be careful not to throw the string into the water and it can be fatal to fish and mammals.

As we aproached the ship, we arrived after the canoes. It appeared as thogh the shipboard passengers were not quite ready for us, but as we tossed the petals on the water we bagan to see more people come out on the balconies. Soon we could hear cheers and “Alohas” being presented back to us.

As we left the side of the ship (and it dwarfed us completely), we took a slight detour south of Kona and came to a stop. As we did, a pod or two of dolphin came right up near the boat and arched out of the water for us.

I had both my video camera and digital camera with me and took a lot of photos, but I’m ure some of them will not come out. The rocking of the boat and the unexpected locations of the dolphin, made it difficult to get excellent shots.

I’ll try to post photos soon, but I seem to have misplaced the power cord for my laptop and that is the system where I load my photo card.