Day 15: Close Calls

We had heard that the breakfast at our hotel was super good. We got up and headed down. It was only okay. The potatoes were old tasting…and other than that, what is good about breakfast? The pancakes were pretty good I guess. Our hotel was right on the water and we really wanted to check out the tide pools so we ventured out. We saw a turtle, but he was being lazy and not really moving much.

When we got back to our room we only had 30 minutes to pack. We packed as quickly as possible. It is getting more and more difficult to do so because we keep buying clothes and gifts and such.

We were running behind on our way to the airport. We finally made it to Enterprise, dropped off our car, and hopped on the shuttle to the airport. At the first stop a man left his sweatshirt. I felt bad for him, so I chased him down. He was very grateful. At our stop, I left my backpack. The shuttle man caught up with me and said, “I don’t chase people, but since you did a good deed, I do a good deed for you.” I thought that was nice.

We had another short flight to Honolulu. Again, we upgraded our car to a orange Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder. It is a fun little convertible. We drove on our first real highway in Hawaii and made it to our hotel, which is right on Waikiki Beach. When we drove up, we realized it was a valet parking deal. I was stressing because when I booked this hotel it said parking was free. The valet guy was super rude and refused to speak in full sentences. I was already cranky so it was pissing me off that he kept saying things like: “No items in car!” “$30 a day!” “Car damaged!” I don’t know what the heck you are saying dude…and you are making me angry. I decided to just get away from him and figure it out later. We checked in and learned that the travel agency we booked through pays for the parking, so that made me feel better.

We settled and then headed out to some Anime/Manga/Comic stores that Nephi really wanted to go to. They were pretty intense. I felt like a complete nerd (and we were the only non-Asian people in the stores). Anyway, it was slightly fun. Then we headed back to the hotel. Unfortunately for us…there was a parade on the street our hotel is on. It was nearly impossible to get there, but eventually we decided to go the wrong way on a one way street. It all worked out.

We walked down to Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville. We had eaten there in Vegas and enjoyed their nachos. We got the Volcano Nachos again and some Boneless Buffalo Wings. They were really good too. I got a virgin lime daiquiri (my favorite). On the way back we stopped in at some art shops. I fell in love with this artist Heather Brown. Look her up. We also stopped at 10 ABC stores in search of Code Red. Again… no luck.