Hawii, 2011

January 17, 2011

Here we are in Honolulu at the Ohana West hotel. When we got up this morning the sun was shining and we could look out at palm tree. Just like a post card.

The trip here seemed very long. We got to the Bellingham airport early so we could get aisle seats. For some reason we could not reserve our seats to Honolulu until we got to the airport. We tried to do it on line and couldn't do it that way either. When we passed through customs the agent delayed us to give us travel information. How often does that happen??

Bellingham airport was full of BC cars. These cheap flights to Hawaii only began January 4 th or something like that. The airport is small and so hokey that it is kind of cute. We had to walk out in the rain and around a corner, across the tarmac to board our plane. It was a no frills flight and seemed very long. There were lots of children on board and though there were some melt downs they did very well. I would have loved to have a melt down myself. It seemed a long 6 hours!

We had only had a bun for dinner (purchased at the kiosk in the departure area before we boarded the plane so went across the street from our hotel to Denny's for tea and toast at 2:00 am. It was 3:00 am before we got to bed and then we were so tired we didn't sleep very well. 7:00 saw us up and looking at the view. We headed back to Denny's for breakfast and met a couple from Prince Albert (we both thought they were Americans). They had gone to the golf tournament and surprised us when they said it cost $50.00 for the whole 5 days.

After breakfast we walked through the international markey and happened upon a Martin Luther King parade (it is his day). Watched it for a while and then went on to explore the beach. The water isn't hot. After a while we boared the free shuttle and went to a shopping district for a wander. Didn't buy a thing but had lunch at a very nice Chinese restaurant. The food reminded us of the food we had in China. Then back to the hotel for our swim suits. Got on the shuttle again, but being tourists got on going the wrong way so we had the full tour of it's route before arriving at the beach. We took turns going in for a swim as we were a bit leary of leaving our stuff unsupervised. The water was great! Toured the Royal Hawaian Hotel on the way back. It is very fancy ! The ar shop had Anthony Quinn's work(I liked it), Tony Curtis (I could probably do as well) and Anthony Perkins ( I couldn't do as well). Lots of Anthony's. Back to the hotel for a shower and dinner. Shopped for snacks for our tour tomorrow at a very interesting store. Roy got a bottle of scotch and we got some cereal for breakfast as we begin our day at 6:00 a.m. And so good night, sleep tight!