Aaahhhhh.
For a travel day, it was a pretty good day. Flights both ran long, we were flying into headwinds to Vancouver and to Honolulu, but after snoozing a good portion of the first leg and some on the second, I hardly felt the 10+ hours of flying time.
We got into Honolulu in mid-afternoon, received our beautiful orchid lei greeting and caught the shuttle to the hotel.
OMG. The hotel. Outrigger Reef on the Beach. We paid for a room upgrade for a couple nights and it is A-MA-ZING. Corner room, balconies on two sides. The Master Suite has one oceanfront balcony and one that faces Diamond Head. The bathroom has a two person walk-in shower and a 2 person jet tub.
The living room/dining room is ocean front and that washroom has a tub/shower and the usual amenities.
The beach in front of the hotel is small, but that hasn’t stopped people from jumping in. Well, wading in up to their knees, the water’s rough today. It rained earlier and was cloudy for most of the afternoon/evening. But the breeze coming through the open balcony doors is so refreshing. Nice and cool. Helps beat the humidity. You step from the plane into the jetway and the humidity hits you like a wall. Didn’t think of that in my “we’re going to go hiking nearly every day” plan.
Darrin tried Moco Loco for dinner and loved it. Hawaiian dish with a bed of rice, topped with a beef patty, two eggs, onions and gravy. Not my style, but a huge dish on the islands.
The weather forecast calls for rain in Honolulu almost every day we’re here, but I’m not worried. I don’t think it rains continuously, it probably just comes and goes. They have flash flood warnings too, but that’s just in the valleys I think, because they’re steep and narrow. The girl who brought the room service up said they issue flood warnings all the time, almost every time it rains, so no big deal.
Tomorrow we’ll be around Honolulu/Waikiki with zoo, aquarium and some shopping. For dinner we’re hoping to hit a local coffee house down the street that was recommended to us; supposed to be good and cheap.
We were resetting our internal clocks for several days before we left, getting up one hour earlier each day until we hit 3am (7am Hawaii time) and it seems to have worked. It should feel like 1am (three hours past my bedtime!) but instead it just feels like I had a good full day and I could go another hour or two.
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