17th of september

17th of September
Didn't write yesterday. I think that I was too tired. Correct that. I know that I was too tired. We walked up to 2 mountain temples. It was hard. We were past tired; exhaustion is probably more accurate, and just to make it worst near the end of the day we had to climb another mountain, not as bad as the others but by then we were beat.

At the first temple the lady who signed Emi's book (This is one of the traditions that people do.) asked Emi if she did hula. Now that's odd don't you think? It's not like Emi has "I do hula" stencilled on her forehead. But there was an explanation. The lady who ran La'ia, Noriko by name, had a website and she wrote about us, and the lady at the temple figured we were going to be there soon, and she just guessed by the way we looked that we were the ones. Her gift to us was the temple's towel. How nice of her. Is that a small world or what?

Today we walked out of the mountains to the ocean, some 18 miles. Emi's face was a bit puffy this morning which gave both of us concern. We figured out later what was going on when Emi commented that her fingers were puffy too and that it happens to her when her electrolytes are off. That made me think that maybe our electrolytes were off, and then I tasted my sweat that is always dripping down my face. It hardly was salty. We were hydrating, but losing salts. Tonight we poured salt over all our food and even drank salty water. Another lesson learned.