So I generally keep this blog to complain about sports, but I decided I'll stray from it to talk about fun stuff I do on vacation.
I went to Hawaii with Megan over President's Day. Two happy coincidences are that Megan's birthday is the 17th over that weekend as well as the Kaimana Klassik tournament that I've wanted to go to for a long time.
We used our Southwest miles to book free flights to Hawaii which sadly took us from SFO to Vegas and then to Honolulu. Anytime you have to take a stop in a long trip your chances of getting screwed go up by about 500%. Turns out it would happen. We got into Vegas ok and jumped on our next plane to HNL. I remember remarking to Megan how windy I thought it was.
Turns out I wasn't kidding. We taxi to the runway and then we get an announcement that the winds have jumped to 70 mph and we aren't taking off. Giant bummer. The pilot tells us that we'll hang out at the runway cause we are next to go and the second we get clearance we are booking it. That was all well and good, but 2 hours later, when we finally taxied back to the gate I was getting pretty antsy to take off. They finally told us we could get off the plane and get some food and just as I was walking down to pick up some more food for us, we get another announcement to jump back onto the plane cause we got clearance to take off. We finally took off a full 4 hours later than expected.
The plane flight out wasn't that bad. I didn't sleep much but I did play my ds lite a lot. Best present from Megan EVER. I am so happy she gave that to me for all my plane flights. The thing has about 18 hours of battery life and will keep you from going insane on these long trips.
We got in around 12:30 am or so and it was humid and warm and awesome. I walked and got our car from Avis while Megan got our bags. We threw our bags into our G6 and took off for Waimanalo. We finally got into our hotel around 1:30 and passed out exhausted.
We slept in and went to this really good breakfast place, Cinnamin's in Kailua. Megan loved their coffee and got an extra cup to go. After breakfast, we turned around and drove back to Waikiki and got tickets to the Pearl Harbor Memorial. While we were waiting for our turn to ride over to the Memorial, we hung out at the museum reading up mostly on the attack on Pearl Harbor. The museum had a lot of great information about events leading up to and after the disaster.
2 hours later, we got our call to watch the video and then walked out to the boat to ride to the Memorial. They ask you to be quiet on the Memorial since the Arizona is still intact and many crew's bodies are left there and folks will still make pilgrimages there. We shuffled on to the memorial, did the rounds and jumped the boat back to the car. More to come later once I get pictures uploaded.
