Saturday 20th
September 2014
I thought early mornings
were meant to be for work; today was another morning for which we would have to
rise early and find our way to the pick-up point. This just happened to be a
five minute walk and again we were early and our ride was late.
When booking this excursion
our host told us to sit on the right side of the bus, as it would be the best
side to see the coastline. But as we boarded the small bus, I noticed that all
those seats had been taken. There was only two more stops to collect more
passengers, there was a total of 17 Adults and 2 children. Only 2 of those
adults were Americans, and the remainder of us were Australians who would be
fellow passengers of the Radiance of the Seas cruise of the South Pacific
including 2 stops in New Zealand ending in Sydney.
As we ventured around the
island, I spotted the stops where I had taken photos on my photography tour,
but this tour didn’t really stop at those, so even though I was recircling the
island we were stopping at different areas.
Our guide was really good
and was encouraging us to learn how to pronounce and speak the most popular
words in the Hawaiian language and the meaning behind them.
On the way around we had
come across road works, which would hold us up going to our next stop and also
leaving and so our guide asked if it would be ok, if we were to miss that and
continue onwards to our next stop the Byodo Temple. It was agreed to be all
passengers, so in effect we were to be on time or early at the next stops and
also to heading back into Waikiki, before the Main Street was closed to traffic
for a Street Party/Festival. Which mum & I didn’t go to, but could hear the
music and celebrations from our room.
Again it was an early night,
I have been waking part way through the night, and maybe it is mum’s snoring
that awakes me.
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