Friday, October 21, 2022

Our Hawaiian Trip Friday 10/14 to Wednesday 10/19/2022

 We had a grand time in  Hawaii

Friday morning, Kurt  drove us to Long Beach airport for our 7 30 flight.  He didn't wanna get up but we left by 5 30.   It was so easy to  check in there.  We tried a few sudoku and got on the  plane.  We had packed some snacks, and KR had the bacon LT sandwich,  and  I ate a little of   the cheese sandwich and saved the rest.

I even watched TWO movies.  Bourne Identity and Scent of a Woman.  Both were very good

We landed and it was HOT 85 and got the  rental car Dollar Rental  We started towards North Shore and passed Dole Pineapple   There  was still a lot of tourists.   Schofield Barracks was  next.  There was a lot o f  construction between Haleiwa and  Laie.  We had some poke at Foodland.  Oh I also  bought a charging cord from Walmart as I could  not  get my apple charger to work in the  car.  We made it to Adam's  and  he  brought us to his next door neighbor, Lisa Lai's  house.  Adam  has  this  cement box that   is   still  not finished.  Aatalia,   his  wife has   some mental illness and i s not functioning well.   The floor of the  upstairs bedroom is covered in  animal skin, like a bunch  of  cow hide, and she was watching  video  on the bed.  He said she started having schizoid type of symptoms a few years ago,  and was on meds off and  on.  We went to Lisa's second  bedroom upstairs.   The house is very interesting, weird weird contours and shapes and rooms.  She is retired from selling packaging I think.  Their company sold stuff to Walmart in the 80's for packaging.  Anyway,  it had a great ocean view and but was HOT

We had  dinner, very yummy, at Pounders, which was right next to the Polynesian Cultural Center.  

The next morning, Saturday, we had some coffee at the Bistro which was  inside  the Marriott

We packed up and could  not raise Adam so we left for Kaneohe

We texted  Mac and we went hiking

WHAT A HIKE

Oolamana  Hike in  Kaneohe was  just  amazing.  We slathered up the bug repellent juice and started.  It was a tough hike with rope climbs.   We only went up the FIRST PEAK.  That was enough.  Kathy picked us up just outside the golf course.   I was so  so  tired

We had a  yummy dinner and went upstairs to her rented house and slept well

Sunday Kathy cooked us  breakkie, baked egg  something  and coffee and  we were off to Waikiki

We stopped at Queen's Beach for a swim and  then  checked into Hilton Hawaiian  Resort, the Grand Islander Tower   What a room.  2205  One bedroom, ocean view and full kitchen, Bosch frig, and GE dishwasher and oven/stove and microwave  We found the free parking  behind the  lagoon,  and the dollar an hour parking just next to the marina  We went to Safeway and had poke and salad for dinner

Monday morning was YOGA  HAHAHAHA   We climbed Diamond Head, then went to Makapuu Light  house.  Then we went back  to snorkeling and I  FOUND A GOPro  

Monday  we tried  snorkeling right in the front but was murky.  We went back to Queens'  We had left over dinner and KR got mad at me and had a large beer

Tuesday we walked all the way back to Queens and as we didn't bring enough money, only a 20, we had one lunch before we walked back home.  We went downstairs to watch the sunset off of the jetty and it was beautiful. Then it was search for dinner.  We finally ended up at  Ala Moana food court where I  had the most amazing food  at food court - PRIME RIB yup

Wednesday it was yoga on the grass at 6 30.  We took a easy and drove to Leonards Malasada but there was no butter mochi, but we bought some malasada and drove to see Chinatown.  We missed it and ended up at Liliha Bakery, oh wow, what a bakery

The flight home was delayed about half hour.  James picked us up with Angel as Kurt was working

It was a great trip



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