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Published: October 28th 2014
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Well the retreat is over. What an amazing experience. So blessed to have been able to come and meet the amazing women that were there and Karen Drucker. It had highs and struggles, but overall I am coming home a lot stronger and insightful.
The retreat finished on Sunday morning at 9.30am, I had to have the car back by 11.30 so straight off to the airport I scuttled, thanks to the combined effort of Gerry GPS and myself , found the way and made it in good time. Checked the car in and wandered over to the shuttle bus stand and stood amongst the chickens to await the bus. There are bantam chooks all over Hawaii that just roam free, they are just about in pest proportions, even around the airport!
35 min flight and arrived in Honolulu. Caught a shuttle to my hotel which is 5 min walk to Waikiki Beach. Very average hotel after the standard I have been used to this last week, no video of this room! But location, location, location! Rested a bit in the room and then wandered down to Waikiki beach to catch the sunset, along with 1000 or so other
people. Beautiful. Walked along the beach and found a dinner spot. Home to and early bed.
Had a tour today with
Discover Hawaii Tours a Pearl Harbor/Dole Plantation/Polynesian Cultural Center Tour. It was absolutely fabulous. I would HIGHLY recommend this company. Our tour guide Joey was magnificent and I learnt so much from him today and he was extremely entertaining as well. The tour covered
• Visit Oahu's Pacific Historic Park
• Film Footage of the Pearl Harbour Attacks
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Pearl Harbor Visitor Center •
USS Arizona Memorial The most visited attraction on Oahu, the USS Arizona Memorial at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center hosts over one million people every year. At this contemplative Pearl Harbor memorial, a near endless supply of oil, the Black Tears of the Arizona, seeps from the sunken battleship below. Accessible only by boat, the USS Arizona Memorial crosses over the sunken hull of the battleship without ever touching it.
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Dole Pineapple Pavilion • Oahu's
North Shore Beaches • Waimea Bay &
Sunset Beach •
Polynesian Cultural CenterAdmission
• Hoku Pa'a Canoe Ride
• Demonstrations at Island Villages
• Polynesian Canoe Pageant
• BBQ Lunch Buffet Included
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La'ie PointScenic Point
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Byodo-In TempleAdmission
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Tropical FarmsCoffee Plantation
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Nu'uanu Pali Lookout It basically covered the whole island in 12 hours. The Polynesian visitors centre is somewhere you could spend 2 full
days there I think, there was so much to see and do. Pearl Harbour was amazing, it was like the US version of Gallipoli and was very informative and humbling. The North Shore surf beaches were so cool to see, but there were no waves! The HIC surf comp is supposed to be on but waves aren't expected until Thursday, so took photos of the set up but that's all. All in all it was a brilliant tour.
Back to hotel by 6.30 and then headed out for dinner. Came back and packed ready to be picked up at 8.40 am tomorrow to head back to Australia. Flying to Sydney and have to stay overnight and then home again Thursday.
Sorry this one is short but it is all about the photos. Which I must say have taken over 24 hours to upload with the crap internet in this hotel. Im now off to the airport!
Aloha
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Chris Hoffmann
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Hi Robyn! Your trip seems to have been all you had expected. Photos are great. Home tomorrow and I will give you a call soon. We are away for the weekend. Love Mum