Arriving into Hawaii, this time I LOST 4 hours of my day (which made a nice change, although again took adjusting to). After all that travelling, I intended to simply spend the entire 6 days lazing by the pool in the Sheraton Hotel (which is right on Waikiki Beach) simply with my nose in a book, sunbathing. Well, as luck would have it, it rained for 5 of those days so I only got 1 day of lazing around. The remainder of the days I occupied myself with long lunches/dinners, walking around, shopping etc. Talking of food, I am not in the least bit surprised a lot of Americans are so overweight. Their meals are HUGE - I could never finish one of them and one of their favourites seems to be fries with cheese on
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