It’s been a few days since my last post, largely because we’ve been having such a good time in Hawaii that I haven’t been able to force myself to sit at the computer long enough to post.
Since we got here on Sunday, we’ve visited the Pearl Harbour Arizona Memorial. That was pretty sobering, and I hadn’t realised beforehand just how seriously it’s taken by the military personnel running the tours. In hindsight I should have, remembering that the remains of the Arizona is a tomb for over 1100 men.
We also visited the Honolulu zoo. That was really great, with the enclosures being really well designed in terms of being able to get a good view of most of the animals. It was hard to get my wife to leave the petting zoo area after she took a liking to one of the goats.
Yesterday we hired a Jeep and drove around Oahu to see the sights. We had some info from the internet about where to find Lost filming locations, and we found a few, but not all of them. At one spot we would have had to pay $10 to walk up to a waterfall, so we flagged. We drove up the west side of the island, across the top, and back down the east side. It didn’t take all that long, and the scenery was just magical. I also managed to avoid any “wrong side of the road” episodes…
Today it’s the beach, shopping and tattoos, then we leave tomorrow. That’s going to suck, but I suppose you have to go home sometime. One thing that surprised me though was that friendliness and customer service were much better in LA. I even heard a conversation in the gas station last night between a local and the store operator saying much the same thing. Overall though, Hawaii has been a blast.
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