Friday, 19 September 2014

Aloha from Honolulu


16th September 2014

We have arrived after a long wait in Sydney for our flight to Honolulu with Hawaiian Airlines which departed on time. It was an uneventful flight which mum told me I slept, but I beg to differ.  The food was quite nice and not what I expected (perhaps I shouldn’t have relied too heavily on the airlines Website). Our seats were row 14, classed as Comfort Seating just behind the galley and you know what. It was fine, we had extra legroom.

After arriving into Honolulu we experienced a long wait to go through immigration as another international flight arrived at the same time. But once through we were greeted with Lei’s for each of us.

It was then another wait for our transfer bus which took us to our hotel the Holiday Inn Waikiki Beachcomber Resort, a lovely room awaited for us with a view of the water. It was time to freshen up before we ventured out and explored our immediate surroundings, well who am I lying too, we went straight across the road to the Cheesecake Factory which impressed mum with the display of cakes available. We were seated and the lovely waitress explained that the meals were huge, but there are some available in a small serving.

We needed extra time to decide so we put in a drink order, then when they came I had settled on the Rocky Road Sundae. We waited and waited, then it came and oh my, what did we get ourselves into, should’ve just ordered the one and shared it. I put a huge dent into mine, but thought if I continued it would make me feel unwell. Don’t get me wrong I enjoyed it and it was yummy.

We waddled back over the road and found ourselves in Macys, where we happened to meet our friends, I believe everyone else bought stuff, but nothing tempted me to buy. We wandered and explored some more shops before our friends decided it was time for Dinner, checking the menus outside of the restaurants, we found ourselves at Atlantis. I was still feeling a touch full so chose a bowl of Clam Chowder.

As we were heading back we noticed a market which of course we had to visit and spend a little.

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