Tuesday 10 October 2023

Reliving the 10th


My Japan Airlines "breakfast"

Our overnight flight to Honolulu was uneventful but very short! We expected a flight time of 10 hours not 6 hours! By the time meal service, take off and landing were taken into account, sleep time was unacceptably short!!! Belinda + no sleep is never a good combination...

Fortunately immigration and luggage were super fast. Unfortunately our prebooked shuttle was super slow. We were not impressed with having to wait for an hour while they sorted out why our names were not on the list despite us having printed confirmation numbers. We got to the Hilton Waikiki Beach eventually and to our surprise our room was ready. By this stage, both of us were tired and the bed looked super inviting but we had already bought trolley tickets and we couldn't waste those! So off we went to Ala Moana Shopping mall to buy ultra important things such as a dry erase board...

Waikiki Beach deserved a quick visit (although most Australians undoubtedly will find it somewhat underwhelming) as did McDonald's. We had to try the haupia pie (Hawaiian coconut pudding). Our stamina completely died after this. Fortunately the hotel was only 100m away and we made it home somehow and crashed.

Bed...looked so comfy...so tired...

View of Waikiki Beach from our balcony

Let's be a good tourist and go on the pink trolley

We should know better. USA land of the big food and big drinks. You'd think we were noobs

we do love looking at unusual stores

Afternoon swim at Waikiki Beach

The haupia pie. Delicious!


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