Hmm, well I seem to be missing a few days. You didn’t think I was going to be blogging the inter time did you? As much as I wanted to it didn’t work out that way. Adjusting to the 5 hour time changes was a bit rough.
Day 3: Hanauma Bay
The wife and I took a tour to go snorkeling at Hanauma Bay. Wow it was incredible. The water was clear and blue. After getting settled on the beach we headed out into the water. I got an underwater camera to get pictures of the reef and the local species of fish. I didn’t get any real beautiful shots. We mainly stuck to the shallow areas. Leah wanted to stick to Section 1 which didn’t get any deeper than 10 feet. I think I scored some good shots of the fish though. We hitched a ride back to the hotel on the shuttle and then had lunch. We decided to take a nap and do something in the evening. Well that didn’t work out. We both woke up early the next morning.
Day 4: Shopping and the Beach
We didn’t really exciting mainly wondered around Waikiki and did some tourist type shopping. After that we headed back to the hotel and hung out on the beach the rest of the day.
Day 5: Island Tour
This was the best part of the trip. If you ever make your way to Waikiki take the E Noa Tours: Pineapple, North Shore, Half Circle Tour. It was incredible. Our tour guide was Uncle Derick a part Chinese, part Portuguese, part Hawaiian native, who has been a tour guide for over 25 years. If you ever take this tour see if you can get Derick, he is an unbelievably cool tour guide. The tour started off at the Dole Plantation and then on to the North Shore. After the tour it was back to the hotel and off to dinner. I had been wanting sushi all week, so we head to a local sushi bar that we found the day before.
Day 6: Home we go
The last day is always bitter sweet. We woke up early had some breakfast and head out to the beach for the last time. We headed back up to get changed and catch a taxi back to the airport. Our flight left at 5:30PM Monday which means it was 10:30PM in SA. After a rather painful 7 hour flight back to Dallas and a 1 hour flight back to SA we finally got home at 9:00AM Tuesday, with no sleep.
Over all it’s a was a killer time, however I do have to say it’s nice to be home.