Saturday, June 23, 2007
Chillin in Hawaii.
Forgot to take a pic of the view from the hotel but i'll be sure to update it. I think Waikiki is now wireless, so thats pretty pimpin from the 12th floor of our hotel. Todays journey was a bit jinxed. It begins with the shuttle being 30min late. At the airport American Airlines doesn't have normal check-in. It's all computer assisted check-in, which is in itself a normal check in without a few questions. If you check in luggage you still need to show the guy behind the counter ID so that he makes sure the luggage tags follow you. Since theres no 'normal' line, everybody is lost looking for where to go. I decide to go into the self check-in and we're standing there and one of the counter clerks tells us to go over to another line. I get to the other line and it's the international check-in, ticket purchase, customer service line. So i'm confused and figure that the lady kicked us out of the newly normal line. So we walk back and she sees us and asks where are we going, we say hawaii and she points to the line where she kicked us out. So i say out loud, you just kicked us out of this line! She got stunned and walked away, and as luck would have it (had the same luck with lines and agents), the lady was the one who checked our ID's and tagged our bags. That went way better than last time.
We get to the plane and they just started boarding, we get in and a lady in front of us was telling us that she saw a sign saying that theres no food service, go buy your own. Gee thanks, we're on the gangway going into the plane. She was wrong and we had to buy a crossiant sandwich for the each of us. The worse part was as luck would have it, 2 boisterous and loud kids ages 18 months and 4 years old. Man were they loud, especially during landing where the ears are popping and that 18 month old was screaming like a banshee during the entire landing sequence.
Get to the around hotel @ 1:30pm and room wasn't ready which wasn't a big deal. Got food and walked a little around the beach, by the time we got back rooms were ready to roll. Hung out for a little and went into the water. I need to take daily pictures of my arm to see the color gradiation with the sun. funfunfun!
So we're gonna be here for a week and the first half we have an event per day. We're renting a car to roam the island and try to find a shrimp truck. Shrimp trucks are like the Taco / Burrito Trucks roaming around the bay area. My goal is to just sit around and maybe snorkel out there and get used to ocean swimming. If i get used to that surfing may be in my horizon but i doubt it. Where the heck am i gonna fit all that gear? Another hobbie? Ugh.
And yep, we've been to the ABC store 3 times already!
Forgot to take a pic of the view from the hotel but i'll be sure to update it. I think Waikiki is now wireless, so thats pretty pimpin from the 12th floor of our hotel. Todays journey was a bit jinxed. It begins with the shuttle being 30min late. At the airport American Airlines doesn't have normal check-in. It's all computer assisted check-in, which is in itself a normal check in without a few questions. If you check in luggage you still need to show the guy behind the counter ID so that he makes sure the luggage tags follow you. Since theres no 'normal' line, everybody is lost looking for where to go. I decide to go into the self check-in and we're standing there and one of the counter clerks tells us to go over to another line. I get to the other line and it's the international check-in, ticket purchase, customer service line. So i'm confused and figure that the lady kicked us out of the newly normal line. So we walk back and she sees us and asks where are we going, we say hawaii and she points to the line where she kicked us out. So i say out loud, you just kicked us out of this line! She got stunned and walked away, and as luck would have it (had the same luck with lines and agents), the lady was the one who checked our ID's and tagged our bags. That went way better than last time.
We get to the plane and they just started boarding, we get in and a lady in front of us was telling us that she saw a sign saying that theres no food service, go buy your own. Gee thanks, we're on the gangway going into the plane. She was wrong and we had to buy a crossiant sandwich for the each of us. The worse part was as luck would have it, 2 boisterous and loud kids ages 18 months and 4 years old. Man were they loud, especially during landing where the ears are popping and that 18 month old was screaming like a banshee during the entire landing sequence.
Get to the around hotel @ 1:30pm and room wasn't ready which wasn't a big deal. Got food and walked a little around the beach, by the time we got back rooms were ready to roll. Hung out for a little and went into the water. I need to take daily pictures of my arm to see the color gradiation with the sun. funfunfun!
So we're gonna be here for a week and the first half we have an event per day. We're renting a car to roam the island and try to find a shrimp truck. Shrimp trucks are like the Taco / Burrito Trucks roaming around the bay area. My goal is to just sit around and maybe snorkel out there and get used to ocean swimming. If i get used to that surfing may be in my horizon but i doubt it. Where the heck am i gonna fit all that gear? Another hobbie? Ugh.
And yep, we've been to the ABC store 3 times already!
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