We are here and it could not have happened soon enough. I am not sure I knew how long 6 hours was until I was strapped into a chair and forced to watch bad airline video entertainment (aside from the Four Christmases movie). We had six hours and they put 2 hours of TV shows on before the movie with plenty of comercials for the Delta Sky Miles American Express Card. The worst show was 30 minutes of some woman and her husband going around Europe eating steak and seafood and trying to find the best wine for each meat. Our flight from L.A. was pretty smooth, side from a couple issues...
You'd think on a flight lasting 25% of a day, you might get some food and beverage along. Well, we did, but barely. I know know that .42 ounces equals 9 mini pretzels (with an emphasis on MINI) and if you pour a warm can of Coke over 42 ice cubes you can't taste it. I am convinced that we got more during the 40 minutes from Bemidji to Minneapolis that we did from L.A. to Honolulu. Good thing we had some granola bars.
The good thing is a record was set today. Dad made the comment, "I've never been further west than Colorado." Well we shattered that today by about 2,500 miles. i am not sure you could go any further west without running into the far east...
Once we got here we made a bee-line to Round Table Pizza and watched the first half of the Monday Night Football game. It was weird since it was 8 p.m. here and the game had been over for at least an hour in San Francisco and was midnight in Minnesota. We wolfed down the pizza and garlic bread and took a little walking tour around Waikiki. I showed dad a couple "short cuts" that had dad saying, "this is like one of my short cuts" and "I didn't think I'd say this today, but it's going to be nice to sit down." OK so maybe I don't know this place as well as I thought I did...or maybe I am just a bit rusty.
Anyway, here is a picture of our hotel room so you know where we are living for the next few days.
We aren't sure what we are going to do tomorrow. The snorkeling at Hanauma Bay is closed on Tuesdays and we were too late arriving to catch any of the travel people. Mari also invited us over to have dinner with the crew tomorrow night so we need to be back by 6:30 p.m. My guess is that well do our best to get a sun burn and have a burger on the Beach at Dukes.
Book'em Dano.
Yay...you guys made it! Kenna kept thinking the plane's flying by here yesterday were the one you guys were on. Okay, pretty sure the hotel you are staying in this time is WAY better than the one we stayed in (including the view out the balcony)! Hope it's warm there..hee..hee.. Woke up to -15 and was suppose to get to -35 with windchill last night.
ReplyDeleteKenna says " I love you so much but I miss you".
Olive juice,
Lisa