Galina’s place left me feeling like I really lived on the island! What fun to explore her beautiful property with the amazing fruit trees, pineapples, etc growing! The property is in a wonderful residential community, gated, beautiful homes. The gate is shut and locked at night, which had us feeling VERY SAFE during our stay. Galina had it ALL for us — TONS of beach and shower towels!!! Beach chairs, cooler, beach umbrella, boogie board, coffee to get us going in the morning (she had lots more, but that’s what we used) —— island guide with things to do and recommended places to eat. Made trip planning SO EASY! The recommended Hang Loose Manta Ray tour was a family favorite (and better with a "3 surf board chain" than we saw with the" 1 surf board chain" we saw with other tours out there).
Her home is also SO CLOSE to both Costco and Safeway. Our first day we had breakfast out, toured a coffee plantation, then got our groceries for the week from Costco and we were ready to go!
As a mom, a favorite part of my trip was my short conversation with Galina. She is a smart, beautiful, amazing mother of 12 kids. I have 5 —— so she is a role model to me! I’d go back to Hawaii just to have coffee with this sweet lady who loves the Biblical Lord well!