On our day in Honolulu we had lunch at very nice country club. We started with raw Fish, Tuna and Octopus. The Octopus was very tough. Next was a salad followed by a fish course and then desert. There was lots of Hawaiian music and a beauaful setting. We returned the 10 miles to the city and were dropped off at the Art Academe .We returned to the ship at about 4:30. There were other Events which ocurred that we will talk about in a few days. Dick [View Full Entry]

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Holiday time here, everyone is off and there was a big parade through the town. Nothing much to do but watch it and go to the beach, it's really cloudy today though and a bit windy. We leave today so spend some time packing up and that during the afternoon. It starts to rain really heavy about 5pm and we leave at 8pm, hope our flight isn't delayed as New Zealand is waiting for us, it's a night flight so we'll hopefully get some sleep. [View Full Entry]

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Today we took the bus to Pearl Harbour and visited the USS Arizona memorial, a pretty somber sight as you can imagine. The story of Pearl Harbour has always facinated me, so many stories, myths etc so we wanted to check it out for ourselves. There were tours from the hotel but a wifee told me we could get a direct local bus for $2, sorted, it was an hour on the bus but an interesting ride through downtown Honolulu, not the sort of images you see on the postcards, quite seedy really. Anyway we arrived at the memorial and had [View Full Entry]

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Another day spent lying on the beach, we rented a couple of surf boards for the morning and attempted to put our new learned skills in to practice, we quickly got tired of this though as it's a totally different ball game with no-one telling you what to do and that, here all the posers are just waiting for you to fall off, I traded our boards for a couple of lie-lo's and we were far more comfortable, I still tried to surf on mine while Fiona used it as a comfortable matress on the beach. It was roasting today, no [View Full Entry]

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We went to Makapu'u beach today and 'learned' how to surf, I was a total natural, totally and naturally kept falling off as soon as I stood up, Fiona was a bit better but she wasn't going for the monster waves that I was going for, WIPE OUT!!! Fiona has a healthy fear of sharks, a fear that I add to almost every day by telling her that I think I just saw one, I never tire of it and she seems to get as scared everytime so it's all good, this makes her stay in easy swimming distance of the [View Full Entry]

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It's still in the 80's today but a bit cloudy first thing, not to worry though we'd already decided to go for a trek up Diamond Head today, it was some Polynesian name but I can't remember or pronounce it so let's stick with the white man name. It's an extinct volcanoe and has a nice park and that around it, it's a fair trek from Waikiki so I'm glad Fiona made plenty on sandwiches, all in all it was nice to see but not a patch on the Dundee Law, now that's a volcanoe!! Stayed in at night with some [View Full Entry]

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Really nothing much to report here, spent the day lying in the sun on Waikiki Beach, it was 84 degrees and we were loving it. The beach is real busy and full of Americans on holiday, a lot of surfing too but the waves don't look that big to me, nothing like the waves in the 2002 motion picture "Blue Crush", now that's what I'm talking about. Went to the International Market Place at night for some food and drinks, it's real expensive here so though so we're taking in pretty easy, planning to go see some volcanoe tomorrow. [View Full Entry]

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I'm happy to announce that it finally stopped raining in LA this morning, just as we were leaving, in fact in was an amazing morning, about 70 degrees and has been since, maybe we weren't meant to be there, anyway it was good for us as our flight to Hawai'i was on time, in fact we just made the flight, the shuttle bus guy who picked us up from the hostel (Danny Glover) was obviously auditioning for another version of Speed, but in this version he couldn't go over 25MPH, "What was the movie called when they had to stay at [View Full Entry]

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Each of us should have had great holidays and an even better new year to look forward to. If not, my thoughts are with you. Good buy 2004! You are now a group of memories. I like to write a general update from time to time to fill the world in and keep y’all up to date. However, I also realize that I can go on and on in my e-mails and will try to be concise with my thoughts for 2004. SPAIN - A wonderful experience. I enjoyed my host family and the travels that I was blessed enough to [View Full Entry]

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Imua Kohala! Adventures of 5 Gals in Kohala Lari, Leanda, Tina, SandyK, SandyR Our adventure started on the plane ride, when we sat up front between all these men going for business and golf trips to Kona. Tina sat by Mr. Gomes, who gave us breakfast and energy bars. Leanda and I got the van from Dollar while the rest picked up our luggage. We drove off looking for Sam Choy’s, and after driving around searching we found it and shared three orders: fried rice omelet with pork adobo, poke omelet and stew omelet. We couldn’t eat it all. Then we [View Full Entry]

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