First full day in paradise...

Sorry I missed posting this yesterday, but we ended up getting in later and were wiped.

Our first full day in Hawaii consisted of breakfast, the beach, the zoo and a nice dinner at Mari's house.

We wondered down to to Keoni's, a local favorite breakfast spot I'd been telling dad about only to find a sign on the door stating, "Closed for remodeling Nov. 20-Dec. 15. So althought we were dissapointed, we settled for a build your own grand slam at Denny's down the road. I had the pancakes, yougut, two scrambled eggs and turkey bacon. Let me tell you, this turkey bacon puts any I've ever had to shame. It was great!

We then wondered down to the beach and took out usual spot out in front of Dukes. We actually ran into Angie and Rick which was fun. Dad got bored and went for a walk. He asked me, "Do you know how far this beach goes?" I wanted to respond with, "we are on an Island so I am not sure it ends," but I opted for, "I am not sure. I have never been beyond that pier." After a couple hours, we went back to the room, cleaned up and walked down to the Honolulu Zoo. I've attached a couple photos of our adventure through the African Safari portion of the zoo. It was a pretty nice zoo that had a very wide variety of animals. My favorites were the goat, mallard duck and cows. It was pretty fun to see a little white bird chasing about a one ton rhino around. look closely at the picture.

After the zoo we went over to Maris for Lasagna. It was a really good time with the Hoop N Surf executive group of Rick, Angie, Greg, Mari, dad and I. There was a lot of story swapped and a lot of laughing. Greg slaved over the lasagna, which included taking it out of the freezer and putting it in the oven. We had some pretty good cream puffs for desert along with some of Mari's homemade cookies. There really weren't very good, but don't tell her that.