Sunday, December 26, 2010

Waikiki > Long journey back to mainland

Our hotel










We got up early and headed to Hanauma Bay. I was determined to snorkel on this trip. We had brought our gear all this way!

It was a drizzly and chilly morning. The sun would peek out from time to time.  The water was 80 degrees at best.




But we did it! We saw a very big sea turtle, which was cool. As well as several other interesting critters.

After about an hour in the water, mom couldn’t take any more, she was freezing.

So we cleaned up and headed back to the hotel.

We all showered and packed and switched to another room. They needed to get our room cleaned for new guests. Once in there, we hung our snorkeling gear around the room and cranked down the AC. We needed it to dry as much as possible before packing it in our luggage.

Since it was still kind of drizzling, we didn’t sit at the pool as planned. We walked around the grounds of the Royal Hawaiian. Then had lunch at Duke’s.

Headed back to our temporary room and napped until it was time to head to the airport.

Once at the airport, we got all checked in and headed to the SkyClub. Both our flights were delayed, so we had plenty of time to just relax. Eventually mom and dad headed to their gate. I still had another hour until my flight.

The trip back wasn’t as good as I had hoped. I didn’t sleep much.

What a wonderful 2 weeks this has been! I got to go to a new state; a very desirable state at that. I got to relax on vacation. I got to bring my family along so we could be together on Christmas. Wow!

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