thursday (9/25)
drove to LAX @ like 7 in the morning and departed round 815. arrived in hawaii 5 hrs later, but since we are 3 hrs ahead here, it was only like 11am or sometin. anyway, we arrived, picked up our rental car - a jeeep! and then drove to the hotel - marriott, baby! right across the way from the beach. it had the most beautiful view of the water and we had a balcony. greeeeeat times. we got lunch at lulu's, the last place we had eaten in hawaii last time. :) yuuummmmmy! then we walked along waikiki along the beach, took pictures, got kona cofffee and just walked. then at night we drove to costco and wal-mart and picked upsome food and cupnoodles among othe things. we ate dinner on the balcony and just relaxed the rest of the night. :)
friday (9/26)
we woke up in great spirits, and very early i might add cuz of the time difference. there was a rainbow too! sooo awesome. ;) on our way to breakfast, we came across a salesperson for htis activities compnay. he was a really good salesperson from new york and told us about a kauai trip and said he could save us dinero if we went tot this time share presntaiton. after a long battle, we agreed to it, but ont without some additional incentives - 2 $30 coupon books for restaurants and about $100 savings each on our trip to kauai. :) woooooo. afterward we hurriedto breakfast cuz we was huuungry. we had it at seaside bar and grilll. i got coconut pancake breakfast and my sister go tthe special and billy bob got...i cant remember but another breakfast platter thing. it was good. lol it was funny cuz on te menu it says that there's a $1 charge for ppl not eating and if u share drnks, u gotta pay too. fun times. :) after that, we went on our adventurous hike to manoa falls! it wasfunny cuz it that place experienced a 2 month droght until the day that we hiked there. normally the waterfall is at rickle but it was going at FULLL BLASTTTT when we got there. well first let me say that the hike there was amaaazing. it reminded me of somethng out of a movie with big open spaces and talll treees..like might joe young. lol. anyway, it was cool but there were hazard warnings for some bacteria so we ewere all freaked out about the mud and stuff. anyway it started raining HELLLAAAAAAA hard and we soaked through and through but it was the funnest adventure. when we got to the waterfall we were almost blown away! we wereonly like 20 feet from it too. the railings looked totally not secure. AHHAHAH it was aesomeeee! we coudnt take too many pictures tho cuz the rain and stuff. eh. we were all giddy with excitement. fun times. afterwards, we went back, showered and enjoyed being so fresh n so clean clean. we spent the next few hours at the hotel, watching the sunset from our room and watching the day tur to night. there were fireworks in the sky, too! yayy free show. then afterwards we went out and tried to find the beach walk mall. we kind went out late so al ot of stores closed but it was pretty to just see the place at night. pretty bumping. i want to go to senor frogs at some point. its a bar/club. lol maybe some day. :)
saturday (9/27)
we went to a time share presentation at the ilekai hotel - where they filmed hawaii-five-o and where there's a view of gilligans island. lol. it was pretty enat cuz i learned all about time-share. i told ava that if i had money id do it in an instant cuz its a good deal but of course, only if u actually use it. that's why its good that im poor. lol. anyway we learned a lot adn the guy was real cool and we got some free food, and fortnately ava and william dodged any commitment to it. goo themmmm! :) dang those incentiveeesss! they offered a free return trip to hawaii for a week as well as a 5 day 4 night stay in puerto vallarta..oh MAN. mexico. anyway, fun times. we went to eat at rainbows drive-in for lunch per eddies' request. good food but real rich. we tried to go to the swapmeet but thye were lcosed cuz there was a football game going on. so we went to chinatown and walked around. it wasn't as cool as we thought. i guess nothin really compares to the chinatown in LA or SF. around 230 we went to costco and wal-mart. we got fruit and kona at costco. @ wal0art we got nooodles. then we just headed back and we went to the pool and swam a little. there was a gorgeous view of the sunset. :) the at 8pm we had MASSAGES and FACIALS. great times. itwas at the marriott at spa olakino. william got a body scrub and reflexogloy scrub, ava got a body scrub and aromatherapy masage and i gota back facial! at night we ate at san sei. it was free karaoke night but of course we didnt sing. it was cool cuz it was open like in my best friends wedding. a bunch of ppl sang. some sucked. funnn timesss. it was awesomeeee. the sushi was good too. 50% off sushi and appetizeres. we ran up quite a bill but it was satisfying. our server was okay looking too. im not too sure though because it was dark. :D
sunday (9/28)
happy birhtdya william! it was william's birthdayyyy. we woke up semi early but didnt leave till around 8 or 9. we drove around looking for food and finally decidded on jamba juice and then the swapmeet! it was at the aloha stadium, i guess where UH has their games cuz their tentes were up. we walked around the wholleee darn place. i bought a hula doll for huong, but i think im going tokeep it for myself. lol. its one of those dashboard dolls but its a fat hula boy. :) we stayed there a longgg time and finally left around...2. then we went back because unfortunately, i had to take a quiz for my class. i did the reading in advance so it wasnt too bad. i ate cup noodles and hten ran to the business center. then came back in time to change cuz we went on a sunset dinner cruise around 430. pretty darn romantic lol, even though i was 3rd wheelin it. it was soo fun! we had taro bread to start off, then salad, then lobster, then steak, then dessert! we drove right into the sunset. it sure was gorgeous. the dnner came with 3 free drinks. ;) i had a mai tai, a green flash (get it!!?!?! like the greenflash when the sun sets), and a novacek nectarine. ava and billy bob had pina coladas and other wonderful alcoholic beverages! we went out on the deck a few times to watch the sunset but it only fit like 20 people. lame huh? tere was on deck entertainnment too. songs and dancing and more! our waiter was cool too. his name was joe. we got to be pretty tight as the end neared and i had more and more alcohol in me. i called him "homie" and did a few handshakes. lol. at the end of the night, i was ready to go clubbing. but i didnt. its okay though! :) oh there was also the electric slide and cuban shuffle performed at the end. yay. after the cruise, we got dropped off at the hotel. then we went bak to thte room and just cleaned up and went to bed. :)
monday (9/29)
woke up super early at like..3am. got ready for our day trip to kauai, aka the garden island. we got pickd up much earlier than our pick up time, which was 425am cuz there was some confusion. anyway, we got to the airport okay, flew hawaiian air, and arrived at the airport in kauai where we were met bya nice lady named aunty alicia. she was BOMBBB. we did this tour package thing. :) anway, we were there much earlier than the tour was to start so she drove us to mcdonalds for breakfast (i got the spam, egg, and rice breakfast) and then to the beach. gorgeous. it was their waikiki. then we picked up everyone at their hotels and the tour started. we saw all the plantations - sugar platnation, coffeee plantaion. she told us abou the history of the island and all this interesting stuff that i sorta remember and thatiwrote down somewhere. i think there's only one sugar platntaion left but they are selling it and turning into a place for biofuel research. crazy eh ? oh there's this island off the coast that is called ni'ihau and it is the forbiddn island where oly ppl born there can stay there. people dont get money there but they are taken care of -food sheter etc. its a very simple life. all they do is college these tiny shells that are unique to that isalnd and they leave the island to sell the shells and necklaces made of the shells. it's crazy stufff. IZ was born there but i guess he left. :) oh, and kauai is where captain james cook first landed. a 2nd trip was when he charted the islands. when he first arrived the ppl thought he was rono, the god of the harvest and treated him like a god bc coincidentally, the sails of his ship on the wooden crosses were just like the white sheets on wooden crosses that the people used to represent their god who they were wiating for. i know thts bad explanation but whatevers. point is, lots of intresteing ihistory. :) oh and lots of movies were fielmed there - like jurassic park, blue hawaii and more. we saw the canyon which was neato and nicknamed the "grand canyon of the pacific" and we tok a boat ride down the river. it was fun but we were all POOPEd cuz we woke up at 3am and flew. it was just a day trip. we flew back and got back to oahu rond 7pm. despite being o so very fatigued, we went to costco and printed osme pictures out. ava read that its best to print pics in hawaii cuz they know what the pics of the water/beahes is supposd to look like and can adjust them. i dont know if its true but our guy helped us out. sam was bomb and we took a photo with him. yay for meeting local hawaaians at costco! :D after that, we went walked around waikiki to look for food to look for some stufffor my moms. exhausting.
tuesday (9/30)
woke up super late. it was the day we were to do our sightseeing of the rest of te island. we drove to scenic points and traveled counter clockwise around the island. we went to pali point, up in the mtns where we got a lovely view of the botannical gardens and some other islands off the coast like chinamans hat, etc. then we continued along the coast and stopped at a bunc of pretty points and beaches. it was cool cuz aong the edges there are black rocks that look sorta like charcoal -lava rock. OH, i should mention that we did a little bit of a LOST tour this day. theisland that it takes place is suposed to be some random island near indonesia but its really oahu. lol. anyway, william is a "lostie" and so we went to places where scenes took place. we tok pictures at this camping site and then of this pier where i guess some of hte ppl had to walk the plank. i dotn really watch lost, lol. then we drove to byodo-in temple, which is located in the valley of teh temples. its a replica of one made in japan. it was pretty neato but it was where i got bit by some weird insect on my wrist and it got all swollen. it was really pretty though. then we continued on to find foooood and stopped at this shrimp truck - giovanni's - somewhere in northshore. we got shrimp scampi. pretty darn good. the shrimp trucks are pretty crazy. they're all tagged and ghetto looking but the food was good. :) then we continued on our LOST adventure and went to the beach where the movie takes place. its all private and secluded and we even saw the tents that was their camp. then we left and went to the YMCA where i guess the people in LOST end up when theyre bback in LA or something ir eally dont know. lol. by then it was sun down so we went back to the hotel. we werew all tired and tried to look for some food but were unsuccessful. we walked around some more, william bogut kona coffee,and then we went back to the hotel, ate ramen and cup noodles and went to sleep.
wednesday (10/1)
woke up early and walked around to buy hawaiian clothing for mama and some souvenirs for friends/family. we almost got a ukelele but my sis n her bf told me to get it at swapmeet back home cuz it was cheap and better quality. we left around 11am, returned the car, headed tot he airport and flew out around 130pm. arrived back in LAX around 930, drove back to their apt, ppicked up some del tacos, ate, watched LOST, and went to sleep.
hawaii was definitely fun times, but i dont think i want to go back for a long time. it was a pretty darn expensive trip! :) tomorrow morning i drive back to sd where i pick up a dog and a cat and watch it with annie for day or 2. :)
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