Hawaii

Hawaii-The Big Island

This morning, we arrived in Honolulu! Only problem is that we aren’t allowed to get off the ship; we are only here to refuel. Our actual time on land in America will come tomorrow in Hilo on the Big Island on Thanksgiving. It felt strange looking out my window and seeing the American flag waving. This will be really short blog, since we spent only one day in Hawaii.

We arrived very early in the morning, me, Michelle, Chlesey and Luke left the ship pretty fast and started our journey. Luke decided to go to the Richardson beach to snore and Chelsey decided to go and find a family who would give her typical Thanksgiving lunch. BTW, it was Thanksgiving Day. Me and Michelle wondered around and finally took a cab with Lauren and Iona and went to the Rainbow Waterfalls. Since two of them decided to leave very soon, me and Michelle stayed and started exploring surrounding. We found some small and weird paths and finally we got to the river. It was so beautiful that we went even further. In couple of minutes, Megan, Kyle, Janu, Mary, Charles and 5 more people joined us, so we all went right to the waterfalls. It was really amazing. You will see pictures. J

After climbing old trees, we all took ride to McDonalds where we picked up David, Darrell and one more people; sorry I don’t remember who was that, since at that point there were 15 people in the cab. However, we ended up in Walmart which was weird. After more than year and a half, I was in Walmart again. Haha J Me and Michelle went to have typical Hawaiian food in one of the restaurants that was open where we met Chelsey, Stella, another Kyle, Tessy and couple more people. Chelsey obviously didn’t find her Thanksgiving family J

We all went to Richardson beach where most of the SAS people were; unfortunately drunk. But that became kind of normal for me, since they used every single chance in port to drink. Me and Michelle explored the whole beach and we saw five sea turtles that were huge. Later on, I met Caty smiling as always, even though she was going through hell during this trip. Woody and Caroline were there too. Nja.

Me and Mish started walking back to the ship before everyone, since I had two hours of dock time which means I had to be back earlier than anyone else. You remember what happened in Japan; well this is the consequences. After almost 2km of walking, we were not even close to the ship and we had only 40 minutes to get there. So, we found some people who were camping for Thanksgiving if they can call taxi for us, but the guy offered us a ride, so we accepted it and in 10 minutes we were in the port. I bought some souvenirs in the shop next to the ship where I met some welcome and warm locals; it was good.

Nevertheless, Mish went to run and I went back to the ship. I was pretty alone over there, so I spent next hour in the swimming pool writing some post cards. Well, that was my day in Hawaii, next stop is Costa Rica in 9 days.