Hawaii - finally posting this! We were there from 3 - 7th June!
Posted by Sarah O'Neill , Saturday, 9 July 2011 12:15
We made sure we had a lie in on Friday as we were flying to Hawaii at 9pm, an overnight flight, with an hour stop in Samoa, and when we landed it would be 7am on Friday morning again, so we tried to get as much sleep unfront as we could! Had a lazy morning and packed up our bags. I had seen a really good deal at the spa, a 'backpackers overhaul', which included a whole body scrub and moisturise, a mini pedicure, and a back massage, all for around £25, bargain! So I signed up for that and Ben signed up for a back massage afterwards. Ben was up for eating lunch, so ordered an egg and bacon burger, to be a bit disappointed when it was an egg and bacon in a bap, no burger! However, it was good that he was up to eating again! After lunch we went and made sure we were packed, as we had to check out at 4pm. My treatment was 2 hours of bliss, and Ben enjoyed his back massage too. We checked out at 4pm, and decided we might as well head to the airport as we had all our bags and stuff so couldn't really do much, so we were exceptionally early for our 8.50pm flight! Waited around for a while before we would check our bags, and the went for some dinner. The time actually went quite quickly, and we were boarding before we knew it! The plane was only a small one, with a TV every few rows, and they showed Glee which I thought was hilarious! Another unusual thing to show on a flight I thought! We both tried to sleep and had a couple of hours here and there. Luckily we didn't have to get off the plane when we stopped in Samoa! They told us the local time was 11 something on Thursday, and Ben thought we hadn't gone through the international date line, but then I reminded him they had said Thursday, so we had!!! We arrived in Honolulu and had to change our watches by 22 hours! It was 6.45 on Friday again! This felt very strange! We were about to start Friday 3rd June for the second time around! Passport control were as friendly as ever, not! The guy was quite a jerk, but we got through in the end. We got our bags and found the courtesy bus to the car hire place. It was raining! We hadn't booked the car until 9am, but they let us pick it up early which was good. The weather was appaling! Ben drove, which I was really grateful for! So he was on the wrong side of the car, on the wrong side of the road, and the rain was terrible and then the thunder and lightning started!!!!!!! We had directions to get to the place, and it was going so well, however, I made a wrong judgement, and we ended up on the wrong road, and had no idea what to do! So we followed signs back to the airport and started all over again! We got there in the end, weather and all! We couldn't check in until 2pm so we found a shopping centre (great places to hang out in the rain as we found out in Oz!), and also the information centre. At 11am I called the owner and she said we could check in early which was fab! The studio was lovely! We had a nice lazy afternoon and did a bit of shopping for the week, and then arranged to skype with the parents the next day.
I got up nice and early for my skype date with the family, got showered and dressed and sat down at the computer only to find that the raging thunder and lightning storm last night had knocked the internet out! Sent a text and waited for it to come back on! Thankfully it did after about an hour, but then Mum’s computer decided to play up! So I phoned home and we chatted for a while and re-arranged for the next day! We had a lovely lazy morning, did a bit more shopping for the week, and after lunch we took a walk to the beach. The beach is about a 2 minute walk from the studio, and is rated as one of Hawaii’s best beaches. As the weather wasn’t great, it didn’t look as pretty as it would in the sunshine, but it was lovely white sand and turquoise blue sea. I spent a long time up loading all the blogs I had written in Fiji and adding the pictures, and then we enjoyed watching a movie and skyping with Carol and Mike before bed.
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