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Published: August 26th 2009
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I made it to Hawaii!!!!
I did not sleep at all last night, I tried...but I WAS TOO EXCIED TO SLEEP. I managed to get my room as clean as I could, packed up as much as I could and saw my brother and Lisa one last time. We had dinner at their place and it was delicious!!!!
So off to the airport at 4:30am I went. Said bye to mom and dad before going into US customs. I wasnt as emotional this time as I was leaving for Ireland haha. The line up for customs was pretty ridiculous but it didnt take me long really to go through. When going through security apparently something in my carry on bag looked suspicious so it got searched, everything came out. They decided that it was my cord for my mac that looked funny so I packed it all back up and off I went. Stopped at Timmie's to get a muffin and I was on my way. My plane boarded 10 minutes later. Not a very full plane, 26 of 75 seats so seat all to myself.
Once in Seattle, I found my gate right away and discovered that
it would be a FULL flight to Honolulu. Pretty uneventful flight. I slept a bit, watched a movie on my ipod (thank god I put one on it!) and ate macadamia nuts and got a free Mai Tai. MMMMM.
I found a shuttle to take me right to my hostel for $15 round trip which is a good deal. I met a girl from Japan on the bus on her way to Toronto. Really nice girl. I got dropped off steps from my hostel and booked in. Lots of spaces for me so no need to worry anyone!!! Went up to my room and met another Canadian girl who is here just to surf.
It's Freaking hot here, and humid and sweaty haha. I walked down to the beach which took me all of umm 1 or 2 minutes. Awesome! GORGEOUS!!!! I wandered around a bit and then as I was taking a break sitting I saw a familiar head of hair which happened to be a childhood friend who is here on her honeymoon so I went to dinner with them ad wandered around the International marketplace which is really cool. It was awesome to see a
familiar face to have a good conversation with someone I know here! They are staying at the hotel right in front of my hostel which is cool.
Lots of crazy expensive big name stores on the main street here which were cool to see. Headed back to my room once the sun set which is like at 7:30pm!!!! I was pretty tired. I met another girl in my room from Germany who happens to be here on holidays from studying in New Zealand and turns out we are on the same flight to NZ....what a small world!!!! Super nice girl. We all went to bed pretty early after a long day!!!
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Loved seeing familiar pictures. You are back in your adventure mode and I can tell you are loving it...meeting new people and old...what a surprise. Have another great adventurous day today.