We arrived in Hawaii at 6 pm on the 2nd of January. Charley has a conference here - this is the best place in the world to have a conference - especially when spouses can come along! Our flights here were just fine - no problems. In fact, we really lucked out because we were sitting in the Economy section, which is glorious in and of itself (an extra SIX inches of leg room!) - and we were in the first part of our section so we didn't have anyone in front of us. We had the TV right in front of us and we actually had even more leg room! The flight from LAX to Honolulu was really nice! We slept a bit and tried not to watch the movie (Rush Hour 3), but overall the flight was nice and easy.
They had a "Halfway to Hawaii" contest where they gave you a bunch of figures like airspeed and wind and all that and you had to guess what time it would be in Hawaii when we were halfway there. Yours truly was the big winner!! I was only 3 seconds off the actual time. To be honest, I SUCK at math, and this was truly a guess, but I'm not going to complain! I won a big pack of macadamia nuts - nice prize!
We made it to our hotel by 7, got checked in and bite to eat and headed to bed! We were exhausted! We had left our apartment at 3 am, East Coast time and arrived at 11 pm, East Coast time. So, we were wiped out!
Charley's conference doesn't start until Saturday, so we have a few days to do some toursity things. We decided to visit the Honolulu Zoo, which is only a block from our hotel. Oh, I forgot to mention the gloriousness that is our hotel! We are on the 31st floor of the Waikiki Marriott - we have an ocean view and we can see the whole of the city of Honolulu. It is a great room!! On that first morning, I saw 3 different rainbows!
Okay, so back to the Zoo - the Zoo is just a block away and we didn't visit it the last time we were here. This was such a fun thing to do! They have the typical types of Zoo animals - lots of chimps, a couple of tigers, elephants, and tons and tons of birds. There was a bird sanctuary that we really enjoyed visiting! My favorite animal in the whole zoo was actually in the bird sactuary. It was a little mountain cat called a serval. The zoo also had a little story time area, so I had to have my picture taken there! I didn't have a book, so I used the newspaper!
Here are a few of the pictures that we took on this first day:
The Rainbow:
The Zoo:
1 comment:
I am SOOOOO jealous! Actually, it's been quite warm here in Md., so it's not quite as hard to take seeing you in shorts and flip-flops. Meet any 6 inch centipedes?
From your hard-working, nose to the grindstone staff.
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